The Coburn Pork Report

Posted on 10 July 2009 by AJ Fluehr
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Pork Report Summary
Senator Tom Coburn’s office puts out the Pork Report, a conglomeration of news articles that highlights wasteful spending. Unfortunately, they find so much of it, there’s no way to read it quickly. For your convenience, we summarize each story in one or two lines so you can find the information you’re looking for.

Running total: $23,607,073,200

What We’re Reading

Weapons industry can't keep up with demand for ammunition
Read more at www.chron.com

People live in the flood tunnels underneath Las Vegas
Read more at www.thesun.co.uk

Indian lunar mission discovers water on moon
Read more at www.timesonline.co.uk

Italian Police seize 'Croc' from mobster's home
Read more at www.earthtimes.org

Fidel Casto Praises Obama's Green Speech
Read more at google.com

Tom DeLay Dances?
Read more at politico.com

Obama the Impotent
Read more at guardian.co.uk

Obama's History with ACORN
Read more at online.wsj.com

Glenn Beck Says McCain Would Have Been Worse Than Obama
Read more at politico.com

Lead Scientists Denounce Global Warming
Read more at vancouversun.com

Jessica Simpson's Dog Raped and Murdered
Read more at people.com

Barack Obama's television marathon
Read more at politico.com

Obama Takes Media to Task for Coverage of Racial Controversy, Wilson
Read more at foxnews.com

Blue Dog Democrats eye new financial reform
Read more at politico.com

Iranian president angers the West over Holocaust comments before he heads to a UN general assembly meeting in New York
Read more at foxnews.com

South Africa athletics authority knew of Caster Semenya's internal testes before the world championships in Berlin
Read more at foxnews.com

Obama ready to dramatically reduce nuclear arsenal before he chairs a UN security council meeting
Read more at guardian.co.uk

4 year old shares cocaine with peers at day care after father tells him its candy
Read more at foxnews.com

Obama criticizes major media outlets while making appearances on several Sunday morning talk shows
Read more at newsbusters.org

Manhunt for suspect in brutal family murder that left wife and 5 young children dead
Read more at foxnews.com

Hofstra 'gang rape' consensual
Read more at foxnews.com

NFL favors GOP over Dems
Read more at politico.com

Cadaver to be discovered on Garrido property?
Read more at cnn.com

Town installs cameras to track all cars entering and exiting
Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com

Implanted tooth brings sight to blind woman
Read more at breitbart.com

Police make arrest in Yale murder case
Read more at abcnews.go.com

Delay Injured 'Dancing With the Stars'
Read more at cnn.com

Sen. Snowe Will Not Support Baucus Bill
Read more at corner.nationalreview.com

"We cannot live under the shadow of an Iran with nuclear weapons"
Read more at ace.mu.nu

Is there a sharp divide between the ideological right and mainstream media?
Read more at politico.com

Conservative book boasting big sales despite being ignored by liberal critics
Read more at cnsnews.com

Ozone layer hole smaller in 2009 than in 2008
Read more at breitbart.com

U.S. and Europe disagree over new climate change treaty
Read more at guardian.co.uk

Former President Carter thinks Wilson's outburst is rooted in racism
Read more at foxnews.com

White House collects web users' information without notification
Read more at washingtontimes.com

House of Reps releases guidelines for presidential put-downs
Read more at politico.com

Superintendent pressured to resign for not showing Obama's school speech
Read more at valdostadailytimes.com

Mortar fire hits green zone in Iraq during Biden visit
Read more at washingtontimes.com

Panel to recommend changes to current color-coded terror-alert system
Read more at washingtontimes.com

The left plays the race card AGAIN- this time about Joe Wilson's outburst
Read more at foxnews.com

Blagojevich blames federal prosecutor for former aide's death
Read more at washingtontimes.com

Taliban's IEDs harder to detect and deadlier than ever before
Read more at washingtontimes.com

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff calls for more U.S. troops in Afghan War
Read more at washingtontimes.com

Biden makes surprise trip to Iraq
Read more at washingtontimes.com

Senior al Qaeda operative killed by U.S. forces
Read more at cnn.com

School bus beating appears racially motivated
Read more at stltoday.com

Patrick Swayze loses battle with cancer
Read more at examiner.com

Wilson Defends Outburst, Says He Will Not Apologize on House Floor
Read more at foxnews.com

A Health Insurance Mandate That Works Like Auto Insurance? Think Again
Read more at foxnews.com

Obama tries to reinvigorate Wall Street reform
Read more at washingtonpost.com

Democrats see race factor for Barack Obama foes
Read more at politico.com

The great myth: bipartisanship
Read more at politico.com

House Prepares for a Vote on Rebuking Wilson
Read more at nytimes.com

At Least 19 Killed in Ramadan Food Stampede
Read more at nytimes.com

Obama delivers “major” speech on financial crisis
Read more at foxnews.com

Bin Laden calls out Obama
Read more at bostonherald.com

Dead at 60, R.I.P Punk Icon Jim Carroll
Read more at rollingstone.com

Obama on Bush's Turf
Read more at foxnews.com

REWARD: 1 million to recover missing Warhol pieces
Read more at ktla.com

American citizens see through media distortion
Read more at people-press.org

Even fellow inmates show no mercy for Nancy Garrido
Read more at cbsnews.com

Watch Kanye being a horrible person!
Read more at huffingtonpost.com

Body of Missing Yale Student Turns Up in Wall
Read more at cnn.com

Teenager vows abstinence, refuses Gardisil shot, and is denied immigration
Read more at abcnews.go.com

Six construction workers plunge to death in Hong Kong
Read more at news.yahoo.com

An estimated 1 million people flock to DC to protest against Obama
Read more at dailymail.co.uk

World's oldest living person dies at age 115
Read more at breitbart.com

Undercover pimp and hooker catch ACORN again in NYC
Read more at nypost.com

Summer temps below average in US
Read more at noaanews.noaa.gov

Pro-Life Activist shot in front of Michigan school
Read more at mlive.com

South Africa threatens Third World War over Caster gender case
Read more at thesun.co.uk

Venezuelan President Chavez visits Russia to discuss arms, energy deals
Read more at alertnet.org

New pictures of 9-11 mastermind could spur more attacks against U.S.
Read more at foxnews.com