In what could be a first, a Clinton-appointed federal judge in New York has cited a gangsta rapper’s profanity-laced song in an order siding with public housing residents suing the city over their arrests.   The case involves a New York City law that says only residents and their guests are allowed to be in

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As if it weren’t bad enough that Michelle Obama got the federal government to dictate what kids eat in public schools, one district is considering cracking down on students that don’t eat their vegetables at lunch by spying on them. How does central Florida’s Lake County School District plan to do this? By installing cameras

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What is it about Detroit public officials and sex scandals? In just a few years, a mayor and two police chiefs in Michigan’s largest city have made headlines for their unscrupulous extracurricular activities. Keep in mind that this is a city rife with all sorts of public corruption. In the last few years Detroit’s mayor

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A huge post-9/11 counterterrorism program that’s received hundreds of millions of dollars has failed miserably to provide any useful intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has covered up the mess from both Congress and the public. Scathing details of the wasteful program were uncovered in the course of a two-year bipartisan investigation by

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Should Americans be concerned that three of the world’s top dictatorships—also renowned for violating human rights—are endorsing President Obama?  The White House probably won’t issue any press releases, but here are the details.   The latest to publicly announce his support for the commander-in-chief’s reelection bid was Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, who this week assured he’d

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Just when you thought the scandals involving U.S. airport security couldn’t possibly get any worse, a Philadelphia newspaper reports that the Department of Homeland Security hired a defrocked priest accused of molesting children without bothering to complete a background check. It’s as if Abbott & Costello are in charge of airport security in the United

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Illustrating that voter registration fraud is a bipartisan problem, a politically-connected vendor hired by the Republican Party to sign up new voters is under investigation for turning in suspicious forms with questionable information.   The scandal broke several weeks ago in south Florida’s Palm Beach County where the supervisor of elections set off a statewide

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has paid a Chicago-based firm hundreds of thousands of dollars to culturally transform the agency through diversity training that includes chants about America’s founding fathers being illegal immigrants. Records uncovered in the course of an ongoing Judicial Watch investigation show how the USDA is wasting taxpayer dollars as it

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As President Obama completes his first term, he has failed miserably to deliver on his promise of being the “most transparent administration ever,” and cabinet-level agencies are among the worst offenders in violating public records laws. Nineteen of 20 presidential cabinet-level agencies blew off the law requiring disclosure of public information, according to an analysis

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is going out of its way to protect the privacy of an illegal immigrant who had multiple drunken driving convictions when—under the influence once again—he slammed into a couple’s sports utility vehicle, killing their baby. Judicial Watch is investigating the horrific event, which took place in New Mexico over

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