Thank you once again Mr. President for raising our taxes to pay for this very important research.

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The following is a cross-post from our friend Hobbes over at Niagara Times blog.  It looks like Queen Nancy sure knows how to party, on our (taxpayer) dime, jet setting and boozing it up to the tune of $3.2 million.  Who knew Queen Nancy liked to knock back a few belts of cognac?  Hmm, could that [...]

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Leave it to the New York State Senate Democrats — they are wasting our money (over $200,000 a year) on a political office right here in Rochester.  Hats off to Evan Axelbank over at channel  8 for exposing this waste of taxpayers money.

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As we watch and wait to see exactly what health care “reform” will finally eek its way out of the hallowed halls of government we can be sure that whatever the final result the government will have its hands all over it.
Will we see another big and useless bureaucracy? Probably.
Will we lose the freedom of [...]

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Friends, I noticed in yesterday’s Democrat & Chronicle that the non-profit organization Action for a Better Community has received $8 million in federal stimulus funds.  Here is the article:
Agency gets $8M grant
Action for Better Community announced Monday that the agency will receive more than $8 million in stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]

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WGRZ.com recently reported that according to the “open and transparent” website recovery.gov, federal stimulus dollars are apparently being spent in fictitious NY Congressional Districtsand even shows jobs being created in those fictitious communities.  From the story:
The government website tasked with transparent reporting of millions in federal stimulus dollars is making some mistakes.
Tuesday if you logged [...]

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As government encroachment gains momentum and you and I watch our liberties and money go out the window I believe a moment of thoughtful insight into what our nation once was and what it could once again be is appropriate.
We were…founded as a Democratic Republic, a representational form of democracy.
We were… founded on the notion [...]

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Have you heard of the Safelink program? It has recently been featured on channel 8 news and it has some people up in arms.
Safelink is related to the Lifeline program which was created by the FCC in 1984 to provide home phone service to low income households (read welfare recipients) at low or no cost [...]

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(Editor’s Note: The following is a cross post from our friends at NY Daily Balance and serves as a follow-up to our post about liberal/progressive/radical/billionaire George Soros looking to cash in on his political donations to Democrat candidates in New York.)
Billionaire George Soros knows something about handouts.
He says a childhood gift from a kindly local charity was [...]

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It looks like Governor David Paterson isn’t powerful enough to overthrow the New York State Constitution.
Liz at The Daily Politics has the story.
A four-justice panel of the appellate division has handed Gov. David Paterson a decisive defeat on the question of Richard Ravitch’s LG appointment, unanimously ruling it was unconstitutional for the governor to tap the former [...]

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