Former Budget Director Mitch Daniels, who established a national reputation as a fiscal conservative while serving as governor of Indiana, is applying the same principles as president of Purdue University. Mary Katherine Ham of hotair.com reports Purdue students are enjoying the first tuition freeze in 36 years and a 10 percent drop in their dining hall prices. Now he's teaming with Amazon to try to bring down the cost of textbooks.





When he campaigned for president in 2008, Barack Obama came down hard on Washington lobbyists and declared he would "free the executive branch from special interest influence." But he seems to have forgotten his pledge to "close the revolving door." An analysis by the Washington Post shows there are 65 current members of the Obama administration that were formerly registered to lobby the federal government.

 

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The Social Security Administration gave $3 million in benefits to people in California who were dead, according to an inspector general's audit. In one case the widow of a disabled man received his benefits for 28 years after he died in 1985. The SSA issued $104,906 in retirement benefits to two Mexican nationals living outside the country.