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Pork Barrel

Can You Grill An iPad?

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 04.25.2012 | Home

If willful destruction of expensive gadgetry makes you cringe, then look away: The barbecue fiends at Pork Barrel BBQ in Alexandria, Va. have inaugura...

Tea Party Lawmakers' Spending Hypocrisy Revealed

Newsweek | Daniel Stone | Posted 12.31.2011 | Politics

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Republican leadership's tether to the Tea Party, flutters the hearts of the government-bashing, budget-slicing ...

Corporate Earmark Ban: House Dems Plan To Cut Earmarks From Spending Bills

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON (AP)- House Democratic leaders announced Wednesday that they will ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct...

Senate/Assembly Pork: Who's Getting the Choicest Cuts?

Times Union | Times Union | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Under Democratic control of the Senate, upstate lost nearly $26 million in member items, the discretionary grants doled out by legislators commonly ca...

Bear DNA and John McCain's Silly Science

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert Schlesinger

We've all heard John McCain's tired joke about the pork barrell spending on bear DNA (a paterniy issue or a criminal one -- so funny the first dozen t...

Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Back when the media was allowed to question him, a certain sharp-eyed journalist caught McCain on not always being so maverickly anti-earmark.

The Real Sarah Palin Scandal

Robert Silvers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Robert Silvers

The real scandal for John McCain's V.P.-to-be is that Palin has exhibited a voracious appetite for the very congressional earmarks and pork barrel spending that John McCain has made a signature issue of trying to stamp out.