Archive: earmarks
Tribbles
For kicks, let's imagine earmarks as tribbles. Remember those critters? They weren't all bad, of course, because they loathed Klingons. But as cute as they were meant to be, they spread and spread and spread and spread. Anway, the furry anology came to me when I saw a post...
By Robert O'Harrow | May 23, 2008; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
Earmarks and Misdirection
It turns out that even some of the biggest beneficiaries of earmarks are finding them to be too much of a good thing. That according to the folks at Taxpayers for Common Sense. The group keyed to a new Defense Department Inspector General's "Report on the Cost, Oversight, and...
By Robert O'Harrow | April 11, 2008; 05:59 AM ET | Comments (4)
Pork, Pork, Pork
To the winners go the riches -- and the earmarks. That's essentially the conclusion of a nicely executed story by Robert Brodsky of Government Executive Magaine. In an analysis of the 2008 Defense Appropriations bill, Brodsky found that "the 20 biggest federal contractors received at least 80 earmarks worth...
By Robert O'Harrow | November 29, 2007; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (21)
