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Ernest Istook
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Obama claims imaginary agreement with Iran
We freed up $13-billion for Iran to negotiate its nuclear weapons program. Now Obama's claims about the supposed deal turn out to be imaginary.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama’s Internet: Anarchy, bullying and extortion
President Obama's two big decisions on the Internet are poles apart. In 2009, his Department of Commerce relinquished big chunks of America's control over the Internet to ICANN. Six years later, Mr. Obama's Federal Communications Commission now wants to dictate "fairness" by imposing so-called "net neutrality."
ISTOOK: Anarchy, bullying and extortion on Obama’s Internet
President Obama's administration has surrendered control of Internet domain names to a company that approves .sucks, .wtf as well as .porn and .xxx, allowing the private group is making huge money from the process.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Earned Income Tax Credit’s massive fraud and waste
Most workers would be fired if they made a $1 million mistake. But our government admits to wasting at least $100 billion a year, yet nobody gets canned.
ERNEST ISTOOK: In war on pollution, EPA can’t admit we’re winning
Why does the Left keep expanding a war that America has already won?
ERNEST ISTOOK: Tracking our driving, Big Brother takes the wheel
Modern technology has given Big Brother a growth spurt; he's now bigger than ever. And he's added Big Data as a key member of Uncle Sam's family.
Tracking our driving, Big Brother takes the wheel
Thanks to modern technology, Big Brother is bigger than ever and can monitor our movements, our driving, our communications and our finances. We need a Digital Bill of Privacy Rights to protect us from government.
ERNEST ISTOOK: EPA ‘showers’ the people with unwanted regulations
If you like your shower, you probably can't keep it once the Obama administration bureaucrats are done.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Circus elephants chased out of towns by sexist PETA activism
Ringling Brothers is dropping elephants from its circus after 144 years because PETA activists got key cities to enact local laws making it impossible for handlers to control the elephants.
ERNEST ISTOOK: High electric bills Obama promise he will keep
American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama's agenda: skyrocketing electricity costs.
Obama’s success is people’s distress: Electric bills are skyrocketing
American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama’s agenda — skyrocketing electricity costs.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama cements his power by redistributing your wealth
Let's get this out in the open. President Obama's agenda is to redistribute wealth, which enhances his own power. He can advance that agenda without Congress, instead acting exclusively through the executive branch. This is possible only because for decades Congress has given away power to bureaucrats.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Millions spent illegally on Obama amnesty plan; so who is going to prison?
Some bureaucrats could end up in prison for implementing President Obama's amnesty plan for illegal aliens. Even if they don't violate the brand-new court injunction, they are accountable under a special federal statute.
Obama wants to control America even after he’s out of office
President Obama says he's pushing his agenda "harder than ever" during his final two years in office, because he's trying to set America's course for the next ten years.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Media scoffed, but FBI confirms ISIS has its soldiers in America
National media ridiculed earlier reports because they didn't want to offend any Muslims. But now the FBI confirms that ISIS has recruited and trained people who are here in America.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Another Obama agency wants to police the Internet
This is about The Blob and how we lose our right of free speech.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama’s amnesty hotline pressures Border Patrol to obey him instead of the law
Obama must be obeyed above all else. The new amnesty hotline for illegal immigrants fits his plan to pressure federal agents to be loyal to Obama's edicts instead of to the Constitution.
ERNEST ISTOOK: NBC’s Brian Williams isn’t alone; honesty is now the lost policy
Has America become too accepting of media and politicans who lie? Is that why NBC's Brian Williams treated his deceit as no big deal?
ERNEST ISTOOK: Gov’t and media lie to make unemployment seem minor, CEO of Gallup accuses
Gallup CEO expresses opinion rather than measuring opinion. He says we're being manipulated by number games to make unemployment appear acceptable.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Super Bowl ball security puts border security to shame
What if we secured our borders as well as the NFL secured the footballs for the Super Bowl?
