Much of the Conservative Political Action Conference’s mainstream media coverage focuses on this year’s Washington D.C. convention as a stage for Republican presidential candidates to launch their 2012 campaign but the reality is that the annual event offers lots more than partisan politics.The gathering of the nation’s most prominent and influential conservatives also addresses crucial

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A Homeland Security program created to deport incarcerated illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes has failed to identify hundreds of dangerous felons—including child molesters and drug dealers—who instead have been released in theU.S. upon completing their sentence.It marks the latest of many failures on the part of the massive federal agency charged with keeping America safe. The idea

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A top Democratic adviser convicted in a major political scandal as a legislative aide will help lead a new initiative to defend President Obama’s highly unpopular healthcare overhaul.Despite her shady past, the consultant (Tanya Bjork) was hired by Obama to head his 2008 presidential campaign in Wisconsin. Now she’ll join forces with another one of the

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In an unbelievable story, tax dollars in the nation’s most populous county are being wasted on a campaign to advise youngsters how to take a potentially lethal illicit drug without overdosing.The endorsement of a federally banned substance by a local government agency was exposed this week by a local paper in Los Angeles, where the county health department

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Sending dozens of illegal immigrants to jail for using stolen identities to work is a “travesty,” according to the Clinton-appointed federal judge who reluctantly approved the plea agreements of Mexican and Guatemalan employees arrested during a raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant.The 2008 case received national media coverage because hundreds of suspected illegal aliens were apprehended during a massive

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While the Department of Homeland Security claims terrorists are more likely to enter the United States through the northern border than the south, the agency secures only a tiny portion of the area though it assures that agents maintain “situational awareness” along dangerous stretches.Less than 1% of the 4,000-mile U.S.-Canada border is adequately secured by theU.S., according

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An Obama fundraiser awarded a cushy European ambassadorship after bundling more than half a million dollars for his presidential campaign ran her U.S. embassy like a hostile dictator, spent government funds on booze and bullied staff.Here comes the good part. State Department leadership (that includes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) knew all about it but

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The government agency that’s showered prison inmates with millions in fraudulent tax refunds over the years has been cheated out of $33 million by thousands who “erroneously” claimed credits for alternative and plug-in electric vehicles.In automatically granting the bogus tax credits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was simply following an aggressive Obama Administration plan to

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As more states push for stricter immigration enforcement one is bucking the trend, instead working to help illegal immigrants by offering them a taxpayer-funded benefit that should be reserved for legal U.S. residents and citizens.Colorado lawmakers are on the verge of passing legislation to give illegal immigrants discounted in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. The measure has

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In a classic case of government incompetence, a faulty computer system likely skewed 2010 census data just as federal auditors predicted nearly a year ago in a lengthy report to Congress.Because appropriate action was not taken to correct the problems, crucial census figures—used to determine seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and to distribute

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