1. Obamacare Targets Entitlements
(Opinions/op-ed)

... of his agenda. "Let's not kid ourselves and suggest that we can solve this problem by trimming a few earmarks," he said. The "biggest cost drivers in our budget are entitlement progra...

2. FDR'S New Deal v. Obamanomics in Their First 100 Days
(Opinions/op-ed)

...t's been recklessly abandoned for bankers and militarism....we (cannot solve this problem by trimming a few earmarks; (the) biggest (budget costs) are entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and...

3. Stuff a Sanitary Sock In It
(Opinions/Humor)

.... Especially after Marvin Bernard and Fernando Tatis start going long. This unhealthy obsession has all the earmarks of payback. Face it: your average baseball writer is smarter than your average ball...

4. From Populist Rage to Revolution
(Opinions/Politic)

...e financial sector that they nurtured.  Obama should have rejected the spending bill with tons of pork earmarks.  But in reality Obama has shown no taste for standing up for principles.&nbsp...

5. One Step Forward, Two Steps Toward Monarchy
(Opinions/Politic)

...al Government will be held to new standards of transparency and accountability. The legislation includes no earmarks. An oversight board will be charged with monitoring our progress as part of an unpr...

6. Four Integrity Tests for President Obama
(Opinions/Politic)

...whistle blowers and reformers to fix the economic meltdown? Accepting a huge spending bill loaded with pork earmarks it starkly contradictory to what Obama promised during the campaign.  During t...

7. Full text of Obama's speech
(Editor/Daily)

...ecovers, we do what it takes to bring this deficit down. I'm proud that we passed the recovery plan free of earmarks, and I want to pass a budget next year that ensures that each dollar we spend refle...

8. An Echo, Not a Choice
(Opinions/op-ed)

...tra $150 billion more in enticements to House members who voted against the bailout previously. Mr. No More Earmarks apparently had no problem with this. With McCain is trailing badly in key states, h...

9. McCain Drowning and Flailing
(Opinions/Bulletin)

... would cut "defense" spending. That's three debates in which he says that and Obama doesn't. Plus earmarks and the overhead projector from the last debate, of course. Obama again on the earm...

10. Alea jacta est!
(Opinions/Politic)

...ance) came when Obama let McCain prate on and on about how he would strike down special interests, pork and earmarks from bills in Washington, that he has always fought such behavior and will continue...