By now, you’ve probably heard a bit about the Obama DOJ’s two raids on iconic American manufacturer Gibson Guitars. The story has made headlines around the world as another shocking example of how far the current administration is willing to
Federal authorities entered the warehouse brandishing automatic weapons. Employees were separated and interrogated. The Fed seized over half a million dollars of product. What was the Obama Administration after? Weapons grade plutonium? Heroin? No…something much more sinister. Guitar fingerboards. In
In the months of stories we’ve done on the Pigford settlement, people often leave comments that say “Hey, I have a houseplant — can I get $50,000, too?!?” Since you asked — yes, you can. You don’t even need the
Quick quiz: who said the following? “My position is that there have been black farmers who did not receive the money that was owed them and that wrong needs be righted. I don’t think that’s happened despite the fact that
I know you need some Pigford to keep you going through the weekend, so here’s a couple of stray thoughts… 1) An Appeal By Any Other Name This is from Paul Friedman’s decision on the Pigford settlement… “…there is no
I’m looking for some advice. It’s about money. I don’t need to tell you that times are tough. It seems like half the experts think we are about to plunge into the second part of a double-dip recession and the
Rep. Issa; I’ve shot about 30 hours of video so far for the documentary Pigford Blues. And since you’ve voted to keep funding Pigford and there’s still no investigation, you have questions to answer–perhaps as much as President Obama does
Georgia farmer Lucious Abrams knows about Pigford fraud. He’s heard lawyers like Pigford’s mastermind Al Pires tell people that all they had to do was say the USDA threw their applications in the trash can — a claim impossible to
Here’s some straight talk from a Democratic Congressman that pops the Washington drama balloon about the Debt Limit – Pete Stark (D-CA) told an audience Saturday morning that the Debt Limit debate is a ”political charade’. Not exactly anything that
Yesterday, CNN once again gave “Dr.” John Boyd a platform to promote the fraudulent Pigford “Black Famers” settlement and once again, he used the public airwaves to accuse a Congressman of being racist. This time, Boyd attacked a woman who’s
Congressman Issa, Back on January 3rd of this year, you said the following in a video interview about the Pigford II settlement. I have to use every asset I can get including all the other committees to do what they
The Pigford “Black Farmers” settlement isn’t just a massive fraud that funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to people who never farmed a day in their life. No, the perversion of Pigford goes far beyond that because the way the
As I’ve written about before, when Iowa Congressman Steve King recently tried to stop funding for the fraud infested Pigford settlement he was opposed by a number of his fellow Republicans. At least one of them — Florida’s Allen West
Liberal news site Talking Points Memo manages to almost (but not quite) turn being a foster parent to 23 at-risk teens into a negative campaign issue with a wee bit of burying the lede legerdemain and by squarely playing into
Want to hear the sound of people making a difference on the Pigford story? I mentioned in a previous post that Allen West had voted no on Rep. Steve King’s amendment to stop Pigford funding. This vote struck me as
The New York Times is reporting on a story I discussed a couple of days ago – the mystery surrounding ‘Betty and Veronica‘ – with a stunning detail; apparently Mediaite reporter Tommy Christopher was given fake IDs by a woman
Rep. King’s amendment failed – here’s the roll call vote. Every Democrat voted against it – but it lost because 78 Republicans also went against stopping over a billion dollars in money being paid out for fraud. Two votes jumped
Here’s a chance to stop the Pigford fraud in its tracks – Rep. Steve King (R – IA) has introduced an amendment to halt Pigford Funding. This is about the multi-billion dollar “Black Farmers Settlement” that we’ve been exposing as
I’ve written previous about the “Would Your Spouse By It Test”? But with Weiner’s latest press conference we’ve moved beyond that to the lower bar of “Would A Reasonable Sane Parent Even Possibly Accept This Excuse And Just Move On?”
Okay, this will get me in trouble but here goes.. The Huffington Post has finally posted something about this weekend’s evolving #Weinergate Story – but not on the national page, but buried… …in the much less read New York section.
Although I don’t think what Anthony Weiner is even accused of doing rises to the level of ‘love child while your wife has cancer,’ the #Weinergate story reminds me a lot of the post-Beverly Hills Hotel phase of the John
Anthony Weiner is a real favorite of a lot of Democrats because he’s not afraid to put it out there. But as Big Government is reporting, maybe he put a little too much out there. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account
In my recent article on 60 Minutes and its coverage of Al Sharpton, I mentioned a little about the Dunbar Village rape story. This is another one of those stories (like Pigford) that SHOULD be something everyone in America has
NOTE: Due to a technical problem, most of the videos that were supposed to be part of this article were not visible. These videos are a crucial part of this piece because they constitute the proof of every statement made
What drove Glenn Beck to tell an increasingly large series of lies about his participation in the Shirley Sherrod story that broke back in July, 2010? Why would he tell both TV and live audiences things like this…. Shirley Sherrod,
