Disputes among Maricopa County officials over the past 11 months
have cost taxpayers $1.1 million in fees, according to an analysis
released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget.
The fees include billings to date for six legal actions, cases in
which Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andrew Thomas, County
Treasurer Charles Hoskins and the Board of Supervisors have fought each
other in court. The money includes costs associated with a grand-jury
proceeding focused on the $340 million court-tower project.
Brother and Sister Patriots: The recent
acceleration of the federal government's pace of annexing new powers, all at
the expense of our liberty, mandates all Americans to seize every opportunity
to shore up our defenses and arm ourselves for our essential counter
attack. These unfortunate developments
have forced me to come out of my back room activities in the Truth Attack
operations to make this vital and urgent appeal.
We all know
that freedom is not free. But what is
the cost of freedom? In the beginning
our ancestors paid for our freedom with their blood. When England kidnapped our sailors, invaded
our nation and put the torch to our capitol we again paid a dear price in life
and limb. When threats to freedom
appeared on foreign shores mothers sacrificed their sons on distant beaches and
to unmarked watery graves and our young men and women have always risen to t
Gov. David Paterson ordered a special session for New York's
state senate in an effort to end a two-week deadlock that has left
major legislation, including the state's budget, unresolved.
Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann expressed concern when learning that
the owners of dealerships had to resort to appealing to local Democratic
Senators in order to get their dealership back. Congresswoman Bachmann stated, “We have gangster government when the Federal Government has set up a new cartel and private businesses now have to go begging with their hand out to their local—hopefully well politically connected—Congressman or their Senator so they can buy a peace offering for that local business.
The revision instructs employees to observe "strict personal hygiene,"
including the use of deodorant. It lists "the observable lack of
undergarments and exposed undergarments" as "unacceptable attire."
It also prohibits clothing with foul language or messages promoting
drug use, "sexually provocative" garments, halter tops and piercings
anywhere except the ears.
There's no need for elections to be complex and plagued by fraud and the inevitable disappointments delivered by criminal politicians. The overthrow of the United States government can be a peaceful and joyful event.
President Obama this afternoon will announce a series of proposals that would involve the government much more deeply in the private markets, from helping to steer consumers into affordable mortgage loans to imposing new limits on the largest financial companies, in a sweeping effort to prevent the kinds of risk-taking that sparked the economic crisis.
The plan is an attempt to overhaul an outdated system of financial regulations, the president plans to say in a speech later today.
The Energy Department is planning to award $18.5 billion in loan
guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants to four
utilities, government sources said today. The companies include UniStar
Nuclear Energy, NRG Energy Inc., Scana Corp. and Southern Co.
Nuclear power advocates hope that the loan guarantees will help launch
a new wave of nuclear power plants that use a new generation of
technology
The Obama administration plans to streamline U.S. bank oversight
and put the Federal Reserve in charge of monitoring big-picture
economic risks in a sweeping regulatory overhaul to be formally
unveiled, a senior administration official said.
The Office of Thrift Supervision, a Treasury Department unit, would
be closed and the federal charter under which savings and loans operate
eliminated under the plan, the official told reporters on a conference
call on Tuesday.
Setting up a certain fight with big business, President Barack Obama is proposing a new regulatory agency to police lenders and protect consumers in credit, savings and other banking transactions.
The consumer agency and a newly empowered Federal Reserve
will be two of the central elements of a broad overhaul of the
financial regulatory system that the president will announce today,
officials said.
President Barack Obama, under growing criticism for not seeking to end
the ban on openly gay men and women in the military, is extending
benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
Internal Bank of America
documents and e-mails among federal banking regulators show that
federal officials leaned on the bank to seal the acquisition of Merrill Lynch in December or else face a management upheaval if the company wanted government assistance.
[must be bad news coming Friday] Officials say the World Health Organization
is likely to declare the first flu pandemic in 41 years as swine flu
infections continued to climb in the United States, Europe, Australia,
South America and elsewhere.
Last week, General Motors finally declared bankruptcy. Many
in government thought $20 billion in taxpayer dollars would save the
company, but as predicted, it only postponed the inevitable. The government will dump another $30 billion into GM and take a 60 percent controlling interest for it. Public
officials are now involving themselves in tactical business decisions
such as where GM’s headquarters should move and what kind of cars it
will build.
Why does the government call the people corporations names spelled in all capital letters? Why do all courts fly admiralty flags, the ones with the gold fringe, in the courtroom. This is because they derive their "power" to control the population indirectly from the constitution specifically from Article 1 section 8 "To declare War, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal. A Letter of Marque is an international agreement that allows a Pirate to become a Privateer.
The GAO (Government Accountability Office) periodically issues reports
titled something like "The Nation's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook" that
attempts to predict the future economic outlook of the USA based on
computer simulations. The reports cited here show that the result of the Obama administration's efforts to "fix the economy" will most likely make things much worse. Not just in the short term but for a long time!
"On the 28 May, a small anti-submarine ship from the Baltic fleet was working on a host of exercises in the gulf of Finland including artillery fire at aerial targets," a navy spokesman said. "No-one was injured."
From indelibly American quotations like "Give me liberty or give me death" to the iconic pairing of "liberty and justice" in the Pledge of Allegiance, there's no shortage of examples demonstrating that Americans have historically placed a high value on the concept of freedom.
But in a country as large and diverse as the United States, the concept of liberty is sure to have different definitions for different people. More complicating still is the fact that, beyond the overarching liberties defined by the Constitution, individual states have their own legislation to address individual freedoms that aren't explicitly covered in federal doctrine.
2009 Seattle Conference - afternoon session on "How a Bill Becomes Law" with State Representatives Cary Condotta (R-12th District, Wenatchee) and Matt Shea (R-4th District, Mead).
[California] with the worst credit rating in the nation is asking that Washington act as a sort of co-signer on the state's borrowing, to be backed up with money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Surveillance cameras confirm a smelly suspicion: Someone had been urinating in a freight elevator at an Internal Revenue Service data center in Detroit.
Sonia Sotomayor is far left ideologue that blurs the lines between the legislature and judiciary and will surely be a rubber stamp for Obama’s radical abortion agenda, which is opposed by the majority of Americans
Much has been said about the nature of government and how it "should" serve the interests of the "people" or the "public". Unfortunately, I can think of no government on the planet that fits this description. This is wha
"They're looking at their (jail) population and realizing that many of the people they're paying to house are there because they can't pay their bonds,"
WASHINGTON – The government is scrapping a post-Sept. 11, 2001, airport screening program because the machines did not operate as intended and cost too much to maintain.
The U.S. Census Bureau has been overstepping the U.S. Constitution’s requirements for a simple enumeration of the citizens for years, but their current plans to mark the GPS location of every address in the U.S. is just the latest in a long list of u
When the call came down to create a website to inform Miami-Dade citizens about how to conserve water amid a winter drought, a down economy, and a culture obsessed with green-washing, it eventually spiraled down the drain.
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