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A prominent oceanographer, who was among the first to say official estimates understated the volume of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, charged Tuesday that a federal agency is punishing scientists whose findings disagree with government figures.
The Social Security number used by Barack Obama mysteriously coincides with Social Security numbers verified to have been issued by the state of Connecticut between 1977 and 1979...
Nine employees who were contracted to work for the Department of Education in Iowa are being indicted after gaining unauthorized access to President Obama's student loan records.
The question now becomes whether the government, in the form of NOAA is merely asking for a pause in order to process data more fully, or if it is putting the lid on a story that shows the oil spill to be far worse than the surface slick would sugges
If Afghanistan had an Arizona-style law, guess who would fit the profile? Guess who's illegal? Guess who is there in violation of the UN Charter, the will of 94% of Kandaharis and a majority of Americans, your own perverse counterinsurgency...
If the Cartel had wanted to save marine life, any oil they had not vacuumed up could have been mulched with any number of non-toxic materials, such as "Oil Sponge," a name trademarked by Phase III, Inc.
The problem with government withholding Miranda readings after arresting a terrorist suspect, is Government can too easily manipulate the timing of “Miranda warnings” so that those warnings follow relentless long periods of interrogation
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For years Constitutional conservatives and libertarians have warned that the American government is moving alarmingly toward centralized power in Washington. Plenty of evidence and proof has been presented that shows the highly troubling expansion o
Obama’s decision to authorize the killing by the Central Intelligence Agency of a terrorism suspect who is an American citizen has set off a debate over the legal and political limits of drone missile strikes, a mainstay of the campaign agains
Joe Biden’s smiling today and here’s his email explaining why.
9 people were indicted on federal charges of accessing President Obama's student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. All 9 are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are
It's now law in Hawaii that the state government can ignore repetitive requests for President Barack Obama's birth certificate. Republican Gov. Linda Lingle signed into law a bill allowing state government agencies not to respond to follow-up request
With much of the talk about Obama’s nominee, Elena Kagan, being about her sexual orientation, the real question is being given short shrift: what about her total lack of judicial experience? Will being a POB enough?
The White House, in the midst of an intense charm offensive aimed at the Jewish and pro-Israel communities, has dropped an archaic phrase that has, in the past, rankled Jewish groups.
Vera Baker's been back in D.C., but what was she doing in the Caribbean during the months of the 2008 election campaign? Why did she suddenly dissolve her successful business and start another one in Martinique? Why did she stay away until shortly af
But University of Texas-Austin communications professor Dana Cloud, an expert on political activism, says that equally dangerous as fiery partisan rhetoric is when officials or politicians, by policy or even social pressure, try to impose civility on
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants to repeal and replace the controversial, $4 billion domestic security initiative known as Real ID, which calls for placing more secure licenses in the hands of 245 million Americans by 2017. The new proposal, called Pass ID, would be cheaper, less rigorous and partly funded by federal grants, according to draft legislation that Napolitano's Senate allies plan to introduce as early as Monday....
Greece is just a pleasant distraction compared to what would happen if the US can't roll $700 billion in short-term debt each month.
Pearls of wisdom from President Barack Obama: Few things in life are harder to find and more important to keep than love. "Well, love and a birth certificate," he quipped at Saturday's black-tie White House Correspondents' Association dinner,
Should the Treasury be unable to keep issuing shorter and shorter dated debt (and it already is skirting away from even the belly of the curve), it is for all intents and purposes game over.
The National Enquirer unloads its latest scandal: this one involves an overnighter between President Barack Obama and his former fundraiser/aide, Vera Baker.
The Justice Department's decision to subpoena a New York Times reporter this week has convinced some press advocates that President Obama's team is pursuing leaks with the same fervor as the Bush administration.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Earlier today, DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs...."
It's been argued that Hurricane Katrina was one of George W. Bush's biggest organizational failures, for the tragedy was allowed to fester on for way too long before his much-vaunted homeland security apparatus sprang into action.
The IMF has decided that not only will US taxpayer money be freely abused to rescue a profligate Greece, but that money will be effectively junior to existing claims, in essence making it some MC Escher DIP reverse DIP nightmare.
Neil Barofsky, The Special Inspector General for TARP oversight, better known as SIGTARP, says criminal or civil charges are still on the table in the AIG coverup, according to a long profile at Bloomberg.
Barofsky addressed GM’s recent debt repayment activity, and stated that the funds GM is using to repay its TARP debt are not coming from GM earnings. Instead, GM seems to be using TARP funds from an escrow account at Treasury...
Washington blamed for conditions in America
Politico practices the art of the absurd with its "reporting" on Barack Obama, the mighty Colossus of cost-cutting. If the president, who's tripled the yearly deficit, doesn't cut spending, he's nothing but a poseur.
The name of the book Obama is reading is called: The Post-American World......
