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  • ACORN slated to get nearly $4 billion in Obama's fiscal 2011 budget

    02/10/2010 4:43:34 PM PST · by pissant · 52 replies · 1,355+ views
    Wash Times ^ | 2/10/10 | staff
    To add to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama's fiscal 2011 budget, ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued, leftist community organizing group, is slated to receive nearly $4 billion from a taxpayer-funded slush fund. The money will come from the Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's longest-running programs. The HUD Web site cryptically defines the grant's purpose as providing "communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs," not a reassuring description given the group's recent past history of aiding the community through gratuitous missappropriation of funds. Has Congress already...
  • Really? Are We That Thin-Skinned?

    02/05/2010 3:58:53 AM PST · by Kaslin · 113 replies · 1,693+ views
    Townhall.com ^ | February 5, 2010 | David Harsanyi
    White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is notoriously profane and uncouth. So it's not surprising that The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Emanuel had referred to some congressional Democrats as "retarded" in a private meeting with strategists. This has sparked a national kerfuffle. Who can quarrel about the word "retarded" in this context? It is obnoxious and unnecessary. We should do our best to avoid it. After all, our goal as Americans must be to offend the guilty (some congressional Democrats) without dragging the innocent (the mentally disabled) into the fray. But what was even more disturbing...