Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $33,677
41%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 41%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: buddyyoung

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • 2010 Pig Book Summary (snapshot of each appropriations bill and details the juiciest projects)

    12/31/2010 2:06:43 PM PST · by STARWISE · 18 replies
    The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2010 Pig Book identified 9,129 projects at a cost of $16.5 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2010. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition. The 2010 Congressional Pig Book Summary gives a snapshot of each appropriations bill and details...
  • Times: Hillary's Toughest Opponent 'Herself'

    12/26/2004 2:43:52 AM PST · by beyond the sea · 130 replies · 2,406+ views
    Newsmax.com ^ | 12/25/04 | unknown
    New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is already the frontrunner for her party's presidential nomination in 2008. But to win the general election, she'll have to overcome opposition from a significant number of voters who absolutely can't stand her. Survey after survey shows that approximately one-third of New Yorkers has a negative opinion of Clinton, the New York Times said Saturday. "The voters who disapprove of Clinton are numerous and unshakable, and they have been around so long that they have a name in political circles. Hillary haters." The former first lady's negative image is largely driven by the perception that...