New Report: How Safe are you in a Federal Building?

Do you feel safe when you walk into a Federal Building?  Following 9/11 one would think with the Department of Homeland Securities Federal Protective Service was designed to provide high safety standards to...

$700B bailout impact tough to assess, auditors say

The Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) seems to have failed in living up to its name since it has today reported it cannot account for the US$ 700-billion spent for the TARP program.It is for this reason, they claim that it will probably not be possible to tell...

National Flood Insurance Program

" Greater Transparency and Oversight of Wind and Flood Damage Determinations Are Needed Disputes between policyholders and insurers after the 2005 hurricane season highlighted the challenges in understanding the cause and extent of damages when properties are subjected to...

GAO Audit Reveals $90 Million in Questionable Medicare Payments

In a recently released report to Congress, the Government Accountability Office reports that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made approximately $90 million in questionable payments to contractors.

Despite Recommendations, US Allows Immigration from Terrorist-Sponsoring Coun...

Rather than, in effect, sponsoring immigration from terrorist-spawning nations, it seems more useful to instead bar immigration. This congressional investigation bears watching."Nearly 10,000 foreigners from states sponsoring terrorism have obtained permanent residency in the...

Information war: Feds close science libraries

"The NASA library in Greenbelt, Md., was part of John C. Mather's daily routine for years leading up to the astrophysicist's 2006 Nobel Prize for shedding new light on the Big Bang theory of universal origin. He researched existing space hardware and instrumentation there...

Roadmap to Reform: GAO issues first oversight recommendations to 110th Congress

"In advance of what is expected to be the start of a busy season of congressional investigation and oversight by the new Democratic majority next year, Congress’s independent investigation agency has produced a roadmap the new committee chairmen could use as a starting...

The 2000 Election -- Stolen or Legitimate?

POLL:    Stolen or Legitimate?

Election Fraud -- The Crisis Papers

"In each case the tallied outcomes favored the incumbent, George W. Bush. The odds for such an occurrence is one in 250 million for this to have occurred by chance."  

The 2004 Election -- Stolen or Legitimate?

POLL: Stolen or Legitimate?

Diplomacy Assignments Become Real World :: MAXINE

Not all of us can go jettin’ around, sippin’ champagne and nipplin’ caviar … some of us actually have to wake up and do the heavy lifting of world diplomatic leadership.Sad but true, this diplomacy job...

Workplace Enforcement to Combat Illegal Migration

Acceptance of a shadow work­force encourages illegal border crossings, encourages other companies to break the law, and forces states and local communities to subsidize cheap, illegal labor by bearing social costs such as uncompensated emergency room care, education, and...

Federal Security Task Force tours New Mexico's international border

The National Guard is building miles of three-foot tall vehicle barriers constructed of 4-inch pipe filled with concrete.

a better idea than machine-readable biometric identity cards for migrant workers

Proposal to implant RFID tracking tags in migrant workers.

overhaul must break the culture that encourages illegal work force

A machine-readable biometric identity card for migrant workers.

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