Connect with us
Government auditors set up 24 fake accounts to see whether the agency administering Obamacare would detect them - and the agency flunked.
Federal regulatory agencies routinely pay attorneys' fees for nonprofits that practice sue and settle to get draconian regulations in place.
A new meaning for the phrase university alumni support: Senators earmarking federal cash for their former schools.
In 2011 an upstate New York dairy farmer received a grant for a new butter packing machine. Cost: $66,000 in 2011 dollars.
Massachusetts has a program for free unlimited phone calls by its inmates, and local sheriffs already say it's facilitating criminal acts.
Florida mistakenly gave vouchers to more than 37,000 students still in the public schools, and has made little effort to get the money back.
California has, at least since 2020, funded the Council on American-Islamic Relations, part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which includes HAMAS.
In 2011, the National Science Foundation spent the equivalent of $430,000 on an interpretive dance program to teach origins science.
California spent $450 million on a new 911 call center system with four regional centers, but emergency communications are fouled up.
Senator Cory Booker earmarked $350,000 literally to refurbish a statue of an elephant, after Elon Musk highlighted it and removed it.
