Clearing the Browser Tabs – Pigford Thursday Edition
While our attention has been diverted by the President’s Grand Tax Compromise and the Democrats’ attempt to shove through a poorly-disguised illegal immigrant amnesty bill, the White House is quietly bilking us out of well over four billion dollars. The scheme is colloquially called “Pigford”, after the black farmer who rightly sued the Federal government for discrimination in 1997. Instead of being a case wherein wronged black farmers received the justice they deserved, however, Pigford has become a morass of corruption, lies, and rank racial politics. Andrew Breitbart and his team at Big Government have published several stories on the case, including a thorough introduction to the scheme, statements from USDA officials who have firsthand knowledge of fraudulent claims and government abuse, and an interview with a black farmer who is willing to go on the record about the corruption he saw around Pigford. The entire list of stories the site has done on Pigford in the past week is here and I recommend you check back often. Dirty work has been done, in our name and with our money, and we need to see it exposed.
And now, links!
- Pay attention, GOP: Lawmakers who cut spending are far more likely to get re-elected than those who raise taxes.
- When you stack the Obama “recovery” against the Reagan recovery, one of them doesn’t look so good.
- If Obamacare is so good, why has the administration let 222 businesses and labor unions opt out of it?
- What’s the key to a good Third Way political maneuver? Timing!
- “Barack Obama, he mad!”
- There is a difference between educated and credentialed. Today’s employers spend far too much time looking for the latter when they really need the former (via Instapundit)
- This takedown couldn’t happen to a more deserving Sorosmonkey.
- Eat Your Blackcurrants: Purple fruit can “ward off Alzheimer’s, heart problems, and cancer”.
- Faster Please: “Private Space Capsule Launch ‘Mind-Blowingly Awesome’”.
- If Santa is working this hard to get his White Christmas, I’m not so sure I like him anymore.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Back to Blogging Thursday Edition
- Clearing out the Browser Tabs – Tabtastic Thursday
- Clearing the Browser Tabs – Gee, It’s Only Thursday Edition
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FYI, part of the space capsule mission was to toss a few objects out the back while in space; physical proof that they'd achieved the orbit they claimed. Plus, they could bill others for a fraction of their mission cost, as satellite launching service. So there are now half a dozen nanosats in orbit courtesy of SpaceX. A pretty low orbit, though, which means they'll only be up there for a month or so.