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    Daily Record, USA Today Network: Too Many Guns a Threat to our Rights

    Aug 23, 2016

    The number of non-military federal agency personnel authorized to make arrests and...

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    The Hill: GOP rep, vets groups slam VA art purchases

    Aug 19, 2016

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    Sentinel & Enterprise Columnists: VA's frivolous expenditures not a pretty picture

    Aug 19, 2016

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    CVA: Va Art Spending: A Case Of Misplaced Priorities

    Aug 18, 2016

    Several weeks ago, ABC News broke a story about VA’s extravagant spending on artwork...

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    Small Business Administrations $24.2B Bad Loan Portfolio

    Aug 17, 2016

    The SBA is costly for taxpayers, and — even worse — it creates a painful human cost...

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    American Clarion: On Our Knees for America While Domestic Government Agencies Increase Their Arms

    Aug 16, 2016

    America is in trouble. I came across three items this week which illustrate that...

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    Newsmax - Daily Caller: Obama Administration Has $25M Secret in Environmental Lawsuits

    Aug 16, 2016

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    KTVU-SF FOX: VA Defends Pricey Art

    Aug 16, 2016

    The VA's $1.2 million 'Cubed-Rock' Sculpture is NOT an example of "creating a healing...

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    The Daily Caller: Report: EXCLUSIVE: Feds Hide $25 Million In Payments To Lawyers Suing Under Environmental Laws

    Aug 15, 2016

    Groups concealed by the government have raked in $25 million in legal fees from federal...

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    Forbes - IRS Weapons And Ammunition Spending Is Unremarkable

    Aug 15, 2016

    Concern about IRS spending on weapons and ammunition has been a “thing” of late....

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    Generation Opportunity: The EPA Spends $92.4 Million On Office Furniture; $4,047 On A Single Chair

    Aug 15, 2016

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    The Daily Caller: This Is How The VA’s ‘Extravagant’ Art Spending Once Helped A Veteran

    Aug 14, 2016

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    Oregon Catalyst: Lane County’s $23,487 wall to public records

    Aug 11, 2016

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    The New American: IG Report Finds Detroit VA Hospital Spent $300,000 on Never-used Televisions

    Aug 10, 2016

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    The News Gazette: Danville VA spokesman says facility's artwork 'modest'

    Aug 10, 2016

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    The Mercury: EDITORIAL: VA wastes money while veterans wait for services

    Aug 10, 2016

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