Expanded gambling not always sure thing
Kevin Landrigan leads off his weekly column in the Nashua Telegraph by reporting a glitch in the proposal to put video slot machines at the state's racetracks.As it turns out, VLT gaming appears to...
View ArticleSunday Book Review- It's Getting Better All the Time
The late Julian Simon once bet doomsayer Paul Erlich that the price of a set of five precious commodities would drop from 1980 to 1990. Erlich thought that our limited resources would dwindle in the...
View ArticleThe FDA is out of control
I had missed this story on Friday. The New York Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration blames to ban alcoholic beverages with caffeine, unless the manufacturer can prove to federal...
View ArticleHow's Your Bailout? Financial Edition
The Washington Post reports that 46 firms that received money from the Troubles Asset Relief Fund, otherwise known as TARP or the federal bailout, "had missed required dividend payments to the...
View ArticleHow's Your Bailout? Automotive Edition
The Wall Street Journal reports that General Motors is getting ready to pay back some of the money it borrowed from the federal government ahead of schedule. That sounds like good news, until you learn...
View Article2 lawyers wrote their own meal ticket
The Nashua Telegraph runs an AP story on one of the most egregious cases of rent-seeking I've ever seen.Every lawsuit filed or even threatened under a California law aimed at electing more minorities...
View ArticleObama Administration gives New Hampshire three new Congressional Districts
Good news for all those Congressional candidates facing tough primaries next fall. The Obama Administration's stimulus package has created three or four more Congressional Districts in New...
View ArticleStimulus Package doubles size of Congress
The political appeal of the $787 billion stimulus package was that it allowed the Obama Administration to spread the money across all 435 Congressional Districts in an attempt to win votes from...
View ArticleThe Onion covers Obama Teleprompter Malfunction
You know, when you've lost the Onion...actually, they destroy pretty much everybody.Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner
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92.5% of all NH Stimulus Jobs in Concord
According to the federal government's Recovery.gov database, which tracks how state governments are spending the $787 billion stimulus package approved last year, 92.5% of all New Hampshire jobs...
View ArticleMark Steyn tours the 00th Congressional District
Over at National Review Online, Mark Steyn explores the political implications of making up Congress Districts, like the Obama Administration has done with the stimulus package.Reading those jobs...
View Article$6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts
Bill McMorris, who I quoted in this morning's story on the 440 phantom Congressional Districts that received funding under the stimulus.The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s...
View ArticleAdministration tries to explain away stimulus errors
Responding to rash of errors in its tracking of the $787 billion stimulus package, the Obama Administration has mounted a defense of its $84 million web boondoggle.Obama special adviser G. Edward...
View ArticleNH Stimulus Director responds to Phantom Congressional Districts
Orville "Bud" Fitch, Deputy Attorney General and Director of New Hampshire Office of Economic Stimulus, has responded to news this week that the federal government's Recovery.gov database has created...
View ArticleThe new health care bureaucracy
By CHARLES M. ARLINGHAUS True health care reform will allow more options and more choices. The current plans in Washington create a central control that transfers authority from the people to the...
View ArticleTop Dem slams Recovery.gov errors
Fox News interviews Rep. David Obey, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, about the rash of errors plaguing the stimulus oversight project at Recovery.gov.In an interview with Fox News on...
View ArticleNH Representatives Respond to Phantom Congressional Districts
Adam Krauss at Foster's Daily Democrat has gotten reaction to this week's news of massive errors in the Recovery.org database from New Hampshire's two Representatives in Congress.Matt Robison, chief of...
View ArticleStimulus Help Line Advised Recipients to Enter Bad Data
ABC's Jonathan Karl follows up his report on stimulus money going to non-existent Congressional Districts. He finds even more errors in the projects in actual Congressional Districts, and at least one...
View ArticleA debacle of the first order
Uber-blogger Glenn Reynolds sums up the increasingly ridiculous stimulus tracking website, Recovery.gov.That whole thing has been a debacle of the first order. From the people who were supposed to...
View ArticleYour Guide to the Stimulus, District by (Phantom) District
Bill McMorris has compiled all 440 phantom Congressional Districts on the Recovery.org website. The vast amount of bad data in the stimulus oversight project shows that it can't honestly be dismissed...
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