Plus, did Milwaukee misreport violent crime?

Will Wisconsin voters make their decision in the June 5 recall election based on their pocketbooks or their principles?  For everyone except union organizers, that choice won’t be necessary.  Wisconsin voters can cast their ballots to rebuke Democrats for an unnecessary recall as well as reward Walker for saving them a lot of money — [...]

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Where money goes to die

It’s been a while since we checked in on one of Ed’s favorite subjects, that being California’s high speed rail project. The proposed service hopes to whisk commuters from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a matter of hours without all that bother of using the existing regional air service to do the same thing [...]

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Oh my.

Good thing “Julia” was a working mom or else we’d probably have to pay for her antidepressants too. Second look at the blue social model? My gut reaction: Of course stay-at-home moms are stressed, they live in poorer households than women who work do. This result is simply an artifact of worrying about money, not [...]

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Endgame?

Go look at the side by side comparison that Katrina Trinko found. Or at least, I assume she found it; maybe it was passed along to her by someone who’s now aggressively looking into this stuff for the Brown campaign after the apparently plagiarized recipes came to light. The good news for Warren? She co-authored [...]

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C'mon.

Like Jonah Goldberg said earlier on Twitter, nothing says “bona fide Oklahoma Cherokee” like crab with mayonnaise. The money quote from Twila Barnes, the Cherokee genealogist responsible for yesterday’s indignant plea for Warren to come clean: “Cherokees don’t even traditionally have powwows.” Yeah, full-blooded Cherokees, maybe. But what about 0/32 Cherokees? Warren, who has been [...]

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1. Arizona Becomes Latest State to Raid Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Funds
2. $80.35 Million in Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Funds Now Getting Redirected to State Budgets
3. California Attorney General Brown Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Ally’s Gmac Until It Proves It Is Complying with the Law

1. Arizona Becomes Latest State to Raid Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Funds
2. $80.35 Million in Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Funds Now Getting Redirected to State Budgets
3. California Attorney General Brown Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Ally’s Gmac Until It Proves It Is Complying with the Law

Out. Sort of.

He hasn’t suspended his campaign but he says he won’t spend any more money to contest the upcoming primaries with Romney, preferring instead to focus on electing Paul supporters as delegates to the convention so that they can influence the platform. BuzzFeed has his full statement but here’s the key bit: Our campaign will continue [...]

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1. Acting Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh Testifies on Volcker Rule
2. Abigail Field | Our Morally Bankrupt Government, Justice Part II: Defending the Rule of Law
3. Abigail Field | The Bankers’ Subversion of the Rule of Law, Notary and Land Records Edition

1. HUD OIG Report | Ally (GMAC) Financial, Incorporated Foreclosure and Claims Process Review
2. Ally (GMAC), Home of Robo-signer Extraordinaire Jeffrey Stephan, Sets Aside $270 Million for Expected Penalties from Foreclosure Fraud Settlement
3. Foreclosuregate | Ally Financial Statement on Mortgage Servicing Consent Order

1. FraudclosureGate – First Thing We Do, Kill All The Foreclosure Defense Lawyers (Then Throw The Deadbeats Into The Streets)
2. Action Alert | SB 670 Looks to throw Everyone Out in the Streets! Even Tenants with Leases!
3. Hurry, Throw them Deadbeats Out! Cities have Trouble Selling Fixed-Up Foreclosures

Standards.

Via Newsbusters, a spiffy example of what I said in the last post about using dumb distractions to create a sour impression of Romney. When you can’t talk about $5 trillion in new debt, talk about a $990 shirt that the candidate’s wife bought with her own money. When you can’t talk about unemployment dropping [...]

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"Important to the national security interests of the United States."

Isn’t it funny what you can find out on Friday evening about what our executive branch does?  For instance, Agence France-Presse reported last night that Barack Obama bypassed Congress to send $192 million to the Palestinian Authority, claiming that national security required the US to put money into Mahmoud Abbas’ pocket: President Barack Obama has signed [...]

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1. COMPLAINT | PLYMOUTH COUNTY, IOWA v MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS – Plymouth County Sues MERS Over Mortgage Recording Practices
2. Bexar County Texas to Sue Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) Over Lost Fees
3. Harris County to Sue Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS) for Over $11 million in Mortgage Fees

"That's bollocks, that's not f***ing democracy".

Violence at an occupy camp? No bloomin’ way! Content warning, for language of course: Well you know what, when [unintelligible] said at camp, you can’t get any money because one guy blocked it. That’s bollocks, that’s not f–king democracy. You can’t have one guy block a democratic f–king vote. That’s not democracy… Or…or beat the [...]

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Money.

The bad news? Thanks in part to the Hopenchange economy, fully half of his target demographic will have no means of repaying their debt after they graduate, no matter how low the interest rate is. The “good” news? No paycheck means no FICA, so they’ll be spared temporarily from contributing to an unsustainable entitlement system [...]

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No bones about it.

Eh, at least Nancy Pelosi isn’t trying to hide it that she wants to alter the First Amendment, that cherished declaration of the right to free speech: “We have a clear agenda in this regard: [DISCLOSE], reform the system reducing the [role] of money in campaigns, and amend the Constitution to rid it of this ability [...]

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Class.

Maybe this explains why he used to eat dogs. Eating horses was reserved for rich kids. If this campaign ends up being as nasty as everyone expects, by September he’ll be referring to Romney as “Moneybags.” For the record: Romney is sensitive to perceptions that he grew up wealthy, so Obama’s “silver spoon” remark could [...]

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“They were very discreet.”

Actually, this appears to have been less a dispute about money than about status. There was a language gap between the 24-year-old woman, who declined to give her full name, and the American man who sat beside her all night and eventually invited her back to his room. She agreed, stopped on the way to [...]

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“They were very discreet.”

Actually, this appears to have been less a dispute about money than about status. There was a language gap between the 24-year-old woman, who declined to give her full name, and the American man who sat beside her all night and eventually invited her back to his room. She agreed, stopped on the way to [...]

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What?

It’s 4.2 percent ABV, guys. You might as well save the money and just spin around for five seconds. You’ll get the same buzz. It’s rated 47 on Beer Advocate, for cripes sake. Who are you people? I don’t even know you anymore. That’s from the Atlantic’s irresistible piece on electoral microtargeting, which is irresistible [...]

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Shell games.

When passing and signing ObamaCare into law, Democrats — including most prominently Barack Obama — insisted that the bill would not inflate already-exploding deficits.  In fact, they claimed, the bill would save money in the first ten years, which was accomplished by a rather transparent staging of taxes and benefits that gave ObamaCare a few [...]

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Anxious.

The good news — Barack Obama has finally found a way to use a half-billion dollars to fund job creation, unlike at Solyndra, where both the money and the jobs disappeared.  The bad news?  They’ll all be IRS enforcers for a law that has a pretty good chance of getting mooted in the next few [...]

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Serious coinage

Remember when President Obama told the recipients of “stimulus” money to not hold conferences in Las Vegas? It seems he forgot to tell the General Services Administration about that, or the fact that the government was spending trillions more than it was taking in for that matter. The GSA held an “over the top” Western [...]

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But are American students any smarter?

Washington is spending more money on federal education programs than ever before. But are American students any smarter? It’s a question worth asking in the context of President Obama’s budget request, which increases the Department of Education budget to $69.8 billion. That’s a 2.5 percent boost over 2012 levels and the largest increase proposed for [...]

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Lawmakers press HHS secretary for answers

Members of Congress are turning up the heat on the Obama administration for doling out millions of dollars in grant money that was used to attack soda and, in some case, lobby for higher taxes. As part of President Obama’s stimulus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided grants to communities for a variety [...]

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Money.

A merciful reprieve from GOP primary politics this morning (except on CBS). Paul Ryan will be on “Fox News Sunday” and “Face the Nation” to patiently explain to Americans yet again that Medicare as they know it will soon be over whether they pass his budget or not. And Obama honcho David Plouffe will hit [...]

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