Here is another Porkbusters’ post, looking at the top earmarks in the HHS / Labor appropriations bill. Charley Rangel does pretty good.

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Heree’s an interesting tale of how our “farm subsidies” hurt other farmers.
BBC
n a landscape scattered with mud houses, donkeys and carts, under the clearest of clear blue skies, Mr Moussa explains how his seven-hectare cotton farm brings in 500,000 CFA a year, helping him care for his three wives and seven children.
At harvest time, cotton [...]

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The House is on record about earmarks, and it is not pretty.

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It’s my money, not yours. Porkbusters!

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It’s my money, not yours. Porkbusters!

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It’s my money, not yours. Porkbusters!

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The President has issued an Executive Order to counter the Kelo decision at the Federal level

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It’s my money, not yours. Porkbusters!

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The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Another blogger, blogging in the local media, asked me in an e-mail what the tag line for this blog was all about. Supporting the Ninth Amendment?
The Bill of [...]

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Glenn Reynolds says it all:
At any rate, members of Congress who are offended by an unannounced late-night raid on an office might profitably be asked what they think about late-night unannounced raids on private homes, which happen all the time as part of the Congressionally-mandated War on Drugs.
If anything, it ought to work the other [...]

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