Apr 19, 2012 Leadership: What do the GSA spending scandal, the Secret Service sex scandal and Leon Panetta’s expensive weekend trips home have in common? They stem from a culture of irresponsibility set by the man in the White House. When President Obama came to Washington, he promised to usher in a “new era of [...]

Taxpayers shouldn’t bankroll bashes for bureaucrats By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, April 19, 2012 If there were ever any doubt that the federal government is out of control, the recent revelations of taxpayer-fueled parties at the General Services Administration (GSA) should put it to rest. Both House and Senate committees this week [...]

Links Romney to tax cuts for rich By Dave Boyer The Washington Times Thursday, April 19, 2012 No sooner had Mitt Romney effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination than President Obama began to sharpen his attacks — on former President George W. Bush. In pushing for a tax increase this week on millionaires, Mr. [...]

By Phil Kerpen Published April 19, 2012 FoxNews.com President Obama and Democrats in Congress are trying to use the deficits created by their spending spree as an excuse to raise taxes. All we have to do is tax the millionaires and billionaires, they say, and our deficits will disappear.  But it’s an historical fact that [...]

Published April 19, 2012 FoxNews.com What can we learn from allegations against a half-dozen supervisors in the Government Services Administration for wasting, and perhaps stealing, taxpayer dollars on foolishness in Las Vegas, and against a dozen Secret Service agents for dangerously procuring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, while there to prepare for a visit by the [...]

By James Rosen Published April 19, 2012 FoxNews.com It is the most powerful federal agency you’ve never heard of — and lawmakers from both parties on Thursday vowed to keep abreast of its astonishing growth and rein it in, if necessary. The Office of Financial Research, or OFR, was created by the Dodd-Frank financial services [...]

Published April 19, 2012 FoxNews.com Republican senators are accusing President Obama of pushing a “less-than-honest” claim about the scarcity of domestic oil, after a U.S. Geological Survey study showed the United States might actually hold a quarter of the world’s untapped, undiscovered supply.  The president often uses a much different statistic in speeches.  He said [...]

By MATT GUTMAN (@mattgutmanABC) and SENI TIENABESO (@senijr_abc) April 20, 2012 A new photograph obtained exclusively by ABC News showing the bloodied back of George Zimmerman’s head, which was apparently taken three minutes after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, gives possible credence to his claim that Martin had bashed his head against the concrete [...]

By Bob Brewin, Nextgov.com Updated: April 19, 2012 | 10:03 p.m. The Veterans Affairs Department faces a “staggering” backlog of 897,566 disability claims with more than 65 percent pending for more than 125 days, a problem compounded by an error rate of 16 percent, representatives of veterans’ services organizations told lawmakers on the House Veterans Affairs Committee [...]

Apr 19, 2012 WSJ By Damian Paletta The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It  said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. Click for larger CBO infographic. Spending [...]