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About 11,000 dead people in seven states, including Maryland, have gotten government heating aid over the past year or so, according to congressional investigators. They say that the grave is cold, but it's illegal to receive energy subsidies when your address is six feet under. Plenty of other Marylanders may also be ripping off the $5 billion Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, to judge from last month's report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In the seven states, the GAO found households receiving more than $100 million in benefits even though recipients weren't sufficiently documented on state records as being...

Barack Obama's a swell guy, always willing to help out Chicago museums with federal taxpayer money… whether they need it or not. In 2007, after he began his presidential campaign, Obama sought a $1 million federal earmark for the Chicago Children’s Museum to build a new facility. The museum, as of the end of fiscal 2007, had revenue in excess of expenses of $23 million, and net assets of $37 million. If a museum is sitting on millions in profits, shouldn't they spend some of that before taxpayers nationwide are asked to kick in? The Chicago Children’s Museum just happens...