Drew Johnson

Drew Johnson

Articles by Drew Johnson

Earmarks to Return if GOP Porkers Get Their Way

Proving they’ve learned nothing from lessons of the past, some House Republicans are pushing to bring back the wide-scale use of earmarks to Congress. These pigs in elephants’ clothing want to end a three-year moratorium on earmarks and start trading

Earmarks to Return if GOP Porkers Get Their Way

'Mob Museum' Opens, Taxpayers Robbed of $42 Million

On Valentine’s Day, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement – better known as “The Mob Museum” – will open its doors. The museum will function as a shrine to two of the most shameful blemishes on America:

Stimulus Dollars Snapped Up to Fund Teen Alligator Wrestlers

I realize that pointing out a ridiculous stimulus expenditure is so 2009. Still, I can’t help but mention one overlooked, but completely outrageous, stimulus scheme. You, as an American taxpayer, paid for a teenage kid to wrestle alligators. No kidding.