Accuracy in Media

That’s a lot of dough: President Barack Obama’s two-day trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last month cost taxpayers over $3.1 million in hotel and motorcade costs alone, according to contracts released by the State Department. In what some described as a “futile” trip, the president met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and […]

Lamar Smith, a friend of ours in Congress, wrote a great piece on the climate change farce signed by Obama: A few days ago, the president signed the United Nation’s Paris climate-change agreement, knowingly entering America into a contract that puts us at an economic disadvantage. Hardworking American taxpayers don’t want their government to work […]

This sounds a bit suspicious…they’d rather monitor American citizens’ cellphones and not do their job? From the Daily Signal: While the Internal Revenue Service continues to leave uncollected tax money on the table, the agency beefed up its surveillance capabilities in a move that alarms both conservative and liberal privacy advocates. Now some complain the […]

Um, okay then: The Food and Drug Administration is spending $36 million on an anti-chewing tobacco advertising campaign targeted at white male teenagers in the midwest. The federal agency announced Tuesday it is expanding its “Real Cost” anti-tobacco campaign to “educate rural, white male teenagers” and convince them to stop dipping. Photo by Ryan Ojibway

Yet John Koskinen asked Congress for more money. Huh? Photo by BrookingsInst

It’s a legitimate concern. Photo by BrookingsInst

Should we abolish or dismantle the U.S. Postal Service, after suffering huge losses like this? Photo by JLaw45

The Washington Examiner reported: President Obama’s proposed tax changes amount to a $2.1 trillion increase in federal taxes over the next 10 years, according to an official estimate released Thursday. The Joint Committee on Taxation, the congressional body tasked with providing nonpartisan estimates of tax legislation, released an analysis Thursday finding that Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget […]

Wow: The Obama administration has been shipping historical artifacts to Iran since last year as part of a secret détente that also included a taxpayer-funded payment of nearly $2 billion, according to a letter written by the State Department and exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Obama administration officials engaged in secret talks with […]

From the Free Beacon: The Internal Revenue Service hosted events that exceeded cost estimates and often failed to meet requirements for their approval, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The report reviewed documentation for 650 events held by the IRS in fiscal years 2013 and 2014 and found that […]