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Cheese Factories on Wordle

Posted on December 10, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

Just having a little fun between meetings today. We took the text of our entire manuscript and entered it into Wordle (http://www.wordle.net) and generated the word cloud to the left. If you did... Read More

Partial Finding from Earmark Survey

Posted on November 22, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

As readers of the Cheese Factories blog are aware, we are running a survey on earmarks. The survey will continue to run for a couple of more weeks: take it here and please pass it on via email, ... Read More

Earmark Challenge Quiz & Survey

Posted on November 12, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

We are conducting a non-scientific poll on earmarks and government expenditures. Do you think you can tell the difference between an earmark and a bureaucratically determined expenditure? ... Read More

Parochialism is the Point (sort of)

Posted on November 8, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

The election is over. Republicans won the House and increased their numbers in the Senate. Now the media are beginning to focus on how the newly-empowered Republicans will govern. No longer are ... Read More

Far be it from us to defend John McCain, but…

Posted on October 21, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

Far be it from us to defend John McCain (R-AZ). In our book Cheese Factories on the Moon: Why Earmarks are Good for American Democracy we characterize earmark opponents like McCain as ranging fr... Read More

Once Again Earmarks Prove to be the Better Choice for our Democracy

Posted on October 18, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

NPR Reporter Audie Cornish is reporting on efforts by members of Congress to influence the expenditure of stimulus funds in their states and districts (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto... Read More

Cheese Factories on the PBS News Hour On-Line

Posted on September 29, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

Recently Sean Kelly sat down with Judy Woodruff of the PBS News Hour for an on-line interview about Cheese Factories on the Moon. The interview is posted at: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/... Read More

Earmarks and Archives

Posted on August 11, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

Earmarks and archives are two topics near and dear to our hearts, so we obviously took notice when they both came under attack by Taxpayers for Common Sense last week.[1] The interest group expr... Read More

Reflections on Pork and Credit-Claiming in the Ruins of Ancient Rome

Posted on August 5, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

by Sean Kelly When he died Senator Robert Byrd reportedly had 11 post offices and 2 airports in the state of West Virginia named after him. After the death of Senator Ted Kennedy–owin... Read More

The Paradox of Earmark Reform

Posted on July 22, 2010June 24, 2015 by admin

Earlier this year House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dbavid Obey (D-WI) announced a ban on earmarks for private for-profit companies in House Appropriations bills. Like earlier earmark refo... Read More

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