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The New York Times<\/a> has a great piece today on how the Agriculture Department and Obama administration are shoveling out billions of dollars to bogus bias claim victims. The program is fraudulent from top to bottom – and top government officials knew it.<\/p>\n

When I made some of the same allegations last month in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> (“Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout<\/a>,” March 20), some folks accused me of being a bigot. The deluge of evidence in the New York Times<\/em> piece makes it far more difficult for apologists to deny the character of these class action settlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has a great piece today on how the Agriculture Department and Obama administration are shoveling out billions of dollars to bogus bias claim victims. The program is fraudulent from top to bottom – and top government officials knew it. 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