Reminding us there are no angels in government…
Impeached Democratic Governor from Illinois Convicted:
Associate Press. Via the Wall Street journal
On 17 counts of corruption, including trying to sell the Illinois Senate Seat vacated by Senator Barack Obama.

He is the second consecutive Illinois Governor to be convicted of corruption.

“Jury Convicts Blagojevich,“  Wall Street Journal (June [...]

Democrat Senator from Missouri and former state Auditor General

Still proving that there are no “Angels in government,” McCaskill…

Billed tax payers $1,220 for an airplane trip to a democratic political event
subsequent reports show that she billed tax payers a total of $76,000 for 89 flights on her chartered plane over the past four years.
Reported that she [...]

“[O]nce again we have more declassified files on Ted Kennedy producing yet more unsettling questions. As readers of my previous columns and books know, Ted Kennedy made a confidential outreach to Soviet despot Yuri Andropov in May 1983, evidenced by a stunning KGB memo. The goal was to undermine Ronald Reagan’s defense policies and, in my view, Reagan’s re-election prospects as well.” Now, “[a]nother round of declassified FBI files on Senator Ted Kennedy has been released. Fittingly, in Kennedy’s case, they once again raise all sorts of questions, from the moral to the political to issues of national security.”

Blast from the Past:
Milton Friedman on capitalism and greed

What a timely reminder. This video excerpt is from a 1979 interview with Phil Donahue
Phil: When you see around the globe the mal-distribution of wealth, the desperate plight of millions of
people in underdeveloped countries, when see so few haves and so many have-nots, when you see [...]

Professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College—Dr. Paul Kengor—responds to the former president’s claim on NBC News that “his work at home and abroad has been ‘superior’ to other presidents.” “Please understand,” Kengor concludes, “I’m not trying to be mean. But self-serving claims like Carter’s should be answered. Intentions are one thing, but results are another. The Carter record should not be celebrated nor emulated.”

“Some diligent digging by the Washington Post“, and careful reporting by Andrew Malcolm of the L.A. Times.
The bottom line according to Malcolm?
“We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.
As in, 1,000 times one million dollars. All this political jabber about giving middle-class [...]

Who are these angels?

biggovernment.com
Of course, the all mighty government bureaucrats made Julie Murphy (the little girl) cry before shutting down her lemonade stand (according to the article).  They may have crushed her young entrepreneurial spirit in the process.  This is just shameful.   Read the entire post at biggovernment.com.
Also, check out this book, “Help!  Mom! There are Liberals Under [...]

This “gem” is from Breitbart.
These comments by Rep. Pete Stark (Democrat) should remind all Americans of the dangers of Big Government.
Rep. Stark…
“I think that there are very few constitutional limits that would prevent the federal government from rules that could affect your private life.”
THERE ARE NO ANGELS IN GOVERNMENT! The flaws of human nature [...]

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Cheating on taxes, fiddling with the tax code, forcing dangerous and expensive legislation onto the American people, disenfranchising overseas military votes, and hiding behind closed doors while drafting 2,000 plus page bills that no one reads – welcome to the modern day liberal, “Progressive” Democrat party that is currently running Washington D.C.
Where Are These [...]