Candidate Obama and President Obama don’t have very much in common. Obama has broken campaign promises regarding tax increases, earmarks for pork barrel projects, forced health insurance, government transparency, spending cuts, and hiring corporate shills as administration heavies. He recently added yet another entry to his long and growing list of mind-bending reversals. On 19 [...]
For some time now I have been convinced that Joe Biden is the most stupid person inside the Beltway. Joe has certainly given Americans ample evidence to support of that theory. Hank Johnson has now managed to steal that distinction from Joe. Representative Johnson is a member of the Armed Services Committee. During this meeting [...]
During the federal fiscal year 2008, which ran from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2008, the seventeen largest federal agencies rejected 312,683 requests for government transparency made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Fast forwards one year and the situation has become far worse. The number of rejected requests for federal transparency have [...]
Monica Conyers, the wife of United States Representative John Conyers (D-MI), was sentenced to 37 months in prison and two years supervised probation. The sentence was a result of asking for and accepting bribes to influence the granting of a city contract. Mrs. Conyers had pleaded guilty, but upon hearing her sentenced she attempted to [...]
The “American” mass media failed miserably to execute their duties as ethical and responsible journalists in 2009. They filled the their airtime with stories about The Baloon Boy, Tiger Woods, and the deaths of Teddy Kennedy and Michael Jackson. They has a lot of air time to fill, because they self-censored news reporting about a [...]
Americans have a long history of opposition to secret police forces, but that era may now be drawing to a close. Barack Obama recently signed an amendment to Executive Order 12425. Obama’s amendment to Executive Order 12425 gives Interpol authorization to operate in the United States and exempts them from all U.S. laws. Interpol’s records [...]
