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GOP cap-and-tax 8′er Mark Kirk won the GOP primary in Illinois for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama.
After pandering to enviro-nitwits and casting his vote in favor of the largest energy tax increase in American history based on shoddy science and Al Gore-led fear-morning, Rep. Kirk promised Illinois voters he wouldn’t pander the [...]

“You gave lame excuses then, you are giving lame excuses now.”

From the land of Barack and Michelle and Rahm and Valerie and David and David and Arne and Ray and Desiree, here’s the latest corruption scandal rocking the Windy City. They did it for the children, no doubt:
The credit cards of 89 Chicago Board of Education employees have been yanked in the midst of an [...]

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It’s not quite the Mother of All Distractions, but it’s up there. Maybe the First Cousin of All Distractions.
The White House unveiled its ballyhooed $90 billion plan to punish banks with a “Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee” this afternoon. It’s faker than the fake garden vegetables the First Lady served [...]

It’s the festering scandal the dinosaur media doesn’t want to touch.
But conservative media continue to cover it – and principled advocates for transparency, election integrity, and rule of law continue to shine light on the DO(I)J corruptocracy.
The latest on stonewalling via Jennifer Rubin at Commentary’s Contentions blog:
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights last month propounded [...]

This guy better watch his back. Via John Kass at the Chicago Tribune:
Political corruption is finally a real issue in this corrupt state, because it’s led Illinois to financial ruin and now almost every candidate running for something has an anti-corruption message.
Some promise transparency. Others vow to serve only one term. A few candidates — [...]

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Late last week, Bloomberg News reported that the New York Federal Reserve Bank — then under the leadership (or rather, lack of leadership) of Tim Geithner — presided over a systemic effort in the fall of 2008 to suppress public disclosure of ailing insurer AIG’s backdoor bailout payments to banks [...]

The weatherization boondoggle.

Back on June 12, I detected Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over the Americorps IG scandal and flagged the First Lady’s former chief of staff-turned-Americorps senior adviser, Jackie Norris.
So, this is no surprise via Byron York:
Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met [...]

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Eric Zimmerman at The Hill has new details on mismanaged federal DOJ grants to ACORN and its affiliates:
ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according a report issued today by the department’s Inspector General.
No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a handful of grants [...]

I’d be burning the phone lines right now if I were an Ohio taxpayer:
Ohio taxpayers are right in the middle of the civil rights lawsuit that Samuel Joseph — “Joe the Plumber” — Wurzelbacher has filed against three former state employees, charging that they illegally accessed his confidential information through state databases.
Ohio Attorney General Richard [...]

Whenever I have noted illegal alien mortgage fraud over the years, I’ve been smacked with the RAAAAACIST card.
Wonder if the Inspector General for Tax Administration is going to get mau-mau-ed by the open borders lobby, too.
Shhhhhh:
The rush to implement a tax credit for first-time home buyers opened the program up to potential fraud by people [...]

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The volunteerism scandals Hollywood won’t be broadcasting
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Hollywood hearts Obama. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you won’t be able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After your favorite shows are over, [...]

The Naked Emperor revisited.

“The deciding factor is overtime, not security.”

The arrest of terror suspect Najibullah Zazi has re-focused Obama’s homeland security officials on the ongoing jihadi threat to rail security.
Mass transit systems across the country are on renewed alert:
A 24-year-old Afghan man at the center of an unfolding FBI investigation into a possible U.S. terrorism cell was ordered held without bond in Colorado Monday [...]

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I said last week that the ACORN funding cut-offs on the Hill were just the beginning.
Good news: The ball is rolling.
DOJ Inspector General Glenn Fine has launched an internal probe.
I covered Fine’s extensive work on immigration enforcement lapses during the Clinton and Bush years. He is meticulous, thorough, and fair. Fine’s bio [...]

This is absolutely horrifying for any parent to watch. STLToday.com reports that police say the black-on-white student beating was completely unprovoked and racially motivated. Watch as many students cheer the attack — and the bus driver is nowhere to be seen:
 
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft wonders where Al Sharpton is.
I wonder where President Obama will be. [...]

NYC sting makes three. Not one more dime for coordinated corruption.

How Obama cronyism threatens rail security
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
New Delhi. Mumbai. Chechnya. Madrid. London. The question isn’t whether America will suffer a jihadi attack on our passenger rail lines, but when. So, why has President Obama neutered the nation’s most highly-trained post-9/11 counterterrorism rail security team?
All signs point to business-as-usual cronyism and pandering to [...]

Good for the TARP watchdog.
Team Obama tried to tighten his leash. He bit back. Turbo Tax Tim Geithner tucked tail.
More, please:
The Treasury Department backed away from a standoff over the independence of the special government watchdog appointed to scrutinize how last year’s $700 billion financial-industry bailout is being spent.
Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the [...]

“Flip-out.”

All wee-wee’d up.

Short shrift.

Keep this inspector general in your prayers. Watchdogs are an endangered species, you know.
Engineering News-Record reports (Hat tip – Steve G.):
The Obama administration used economic stimulus money to pay for 50 airport projects that didn’t meet the grant criteria and approved projects at four airports with a history of mismanaging federal grants, a government [...]

Maybe Michelle Obama will hire this grievance-mongerer to replace the fired Americorps inspector general. Via the NYPost:
She has given new meaning to a class-action lawsuit.
Trina Thompson gave it the old college try, but couldn’t find work. Now she thinks her sheepskin wasn’t worth her time, and is suing her alma mater for her money [...]

Just finished up on the Today Show, where I had a quick chance to briefly expose the Culture of Corruption in the age of Obama. My syndicated column today adds to the dossier with a round-up of fresh Bully Boy moments.
It’s the Chicago way.
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Bully boys: A brief history of White House thuggery
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright [...]

My column today delves into the Byzantine world of the Democrats’ government-run health care takeover. I filed it before the latest CBO budget analysis assailing the costs of Obamacare — a predictable outcome which simply bolsters my point. I linked the other day to the incredible flow chart created by the GOP team at the [...]

Stacy McCain updates the story that the Obama administration wants to go away:
“We’re not there yet,” one Democratic source on Capitol Hill said last week, when asked about the prospect for hearings on the Obama administration’s firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. Congressional investigators are still conducting interviews in the case, so the question [...]

Who railroaded the Amtrak inspector general?
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak inspector general Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly “retired” last month –just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in [...]