In the latest of many examples of the fraud that has infested the president's stimulus plan is $1 million in spending cash for incarcerated murderers and rapists and a $15 million infusion for a seldom-used checkpoint in a remote Great Plains town with influential politicians. 

President Barack ...

Read more: More Stimulous Fraud, Waste

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." - Frederic Bastiat

The Metastasis of Moral Hazard and its Effect on Gold ... There is accumulating evidence that the Washington - Wall Street moral hazard experiment has gone ...

Read more: Have The Immoral Actions of Central Bankers Precipitated the Decline of the West?

Right Side News Geopolitics

This week we discovered that we have been deceived. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's principled rejection of US President Barack Obama's bigoted demand that Israel bar Jews from building new homes and expanding existing ones in Judea and Samaria does not reflect his ...

Read more: Netanyahu's Perilous Statecraft

Stratfor.com

As August draws to a close, so does the first phase of the Obama presidency. The first months of any U.S. presidency are spent filling key positions and learning the levers of foreign and national security policy. There are also the first rounds of visits with foreign leaders and the ...

Read more: Obama's Foreign Policy: The End of the Beginning

President Franklin Roosevelt, speaking of the intractable Depression, sourly admitted that Keynesian fiscal policy, in theory, was the simplest thing in the world, but in practice, a disaster.  A thoughtful reader, who generally disagrees with me, posted the following as part of his comment ...

Read more: Government Stimulus Spending: Differing Perspectives

Harlingen, Texas, August 22, 2009: We have all seen that motion picture and televised legal dramas. One side is seeking important information and the other is attempting to keep that same information hidden. The court orders full disclosure...and what happens?  The side wanting to keep a particular ...

Read more: How To Hide The Truth - Washington Style

There is no doubt the landmark tax deal between the US and Switzerland this week is a success for UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank by assets under management. By averting a lengthy and painful trial and dodging the bullet of another settlement fine which could have rendered the bank's capital ratio ...

Read more: Will Swiss Banks Have To Reinvent Themselves?

A high-ranking official at the taxpayer-funded leftist group that conducts fraudulent voter registration drives has pleaded guilty to conspiracy for organizing a scheme that illegally paid workers to register new voters.

As a Nevada field director for the Association of Community Organizations for ...

Read more: ACORN Director Pleads Guilty