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Fascist Wage Bill OK’d by House Committee
More Mussolini-style corporatism from lawmakers. The House Financial Services Committee, chaired by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), has approved legislation handing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extensive control over salaries of employees…
by Matthew Vadum on March 31, 2009

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Canadian Socialist Says Canada’s Socialist Medical System Didn’t Kill Natasha Richardson
In the Vancouver Sun, a physician who belongs to a socialist group is, not surprisingly, defending Canada’s socialist health care system that allows sick people to linger and die…
by Matthew Vadum on March 31, 2009

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Vadum on G. Gordon Liddy Show
Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum will be on “The G. Gordon Liddy Show” momentarily. Listen online via Radio America’s website.
by Matthew Vadum on March 31, 2009

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ACORN Funding Block Fails in AmeriCorps Expansion Bill
Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) tried to stand up for civil society and taxpayers last week but his effort was shot down. Vitter tried to prevent the radical direct-action group, ACORN,…
by Matthew Vadum on March 30, 2009

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Barone on Crap-and-Trade
Earlier this month Michael Barone wrote a good, short blog post on how useless the so-called cap-and-trade system in Europe is.
by Matthew Vadum on March 30, 2009

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Media Matters Lies About GM CEO’s Firing by White House
Media Matters for America, the George Soros-funded* organization that even the New York Times calls a “highly partisan research organization,” is deliberately misrepresenting the political purge of GM…
by Matthew Vadum on March 30, 2009

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Leftists Hope Recession Will Move America Leftward
Left-wingers are hoping bad economic times will lead to a whole-scale shift in American culture, Russ Smith argues on Splice Today: There’s presently a school of thought, mostly among…
by Matthew Vadum on March 30, 2009

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Podesta’s Center for American Progress Spinoff Becomes A Media Critic
An affiliate of the George Soros-funded think tank and pressure group, Center for American Progress (CAP), has emulated the sleazy Media Matters for…
by Matthew Vadum on March 28, 2009

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All’s Not Well at ACORN-Aligned Radical Union SEIU
George Soros-backed SEIU laid off 75 workers and they demonstrated outside the radical union’s offices. AP reports Sometimes even unions have union problems. Dozens of employees of the Service Employees…
by Matthew Vadum on March 27, 2009

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Charities Will Suffer if Regulators Have Their Way
Loren A. Smith Jr., senior fellow for Labor and Employment Policy at the Institute for Liberty, has a good op-ed at the Fox Forum on the Obama administration’s…
by Matthew Vadum on March 27, 2009