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Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 26th, 2013Kade Crockford is hopping mad.“The government has largely gotten away with blowing up the parts of the Bill of Rights” that in a bygone era…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 23rd, 2013It’s tough being a Republican leader these days.A Pew Research Center/USA Today poll released on Feb 21st reveals this truth with startling clarity.Whether the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2013In The Origin of Totalitarianism, political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that “real power begins where secrecy begins.” If we accept this statement as true,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 20th, 2013In The Origin of Totalitarianism, political philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote that “real power begins where secrecy begins.” If we accept this statement as true,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2013The agency charged with flying unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace so far has failed to meet basic privacy, reliability, safety, and performance standards…

By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 8th, 2013On Feb. 4th, eleven senators sent a letter to President Obama asking him to release to Congress “the secret legal opinions outlining your authority…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 31st, 2013U.S. school shootings share a disturbing number of characteristics, revealed a little-known study released in November by one of America’s Intelligence Fusion Centers.Below, posts…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 30th, 2013The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is getting ready to launch an investigation into the apparently questionable work environment at the Transportation Security Administration…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2013“In the last few years, and especially since 2007, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of attacks and violent plots originating…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 17th, 2013A “large inventory” of nuclear weapons parts and related materials are “scattered across” America’s nuclearweapons sites and are in need of disposal, stated a…

By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 9th, 2013A recent U.S. law said to temporarily address the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ issue has quietly made “permanent 82 percent of the Bush tax cuts,”…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 30th, 2012The looming “fiscal cliff” being heatedly discussed by corporate news sources is a flat-out myth, declares a leading economic think tank.The Center on Budget…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 18th, 2012In October, the Congressional Research Service – an federal entity that works to provide members of Congress with simple, easy-to-understand reports on matters of…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 9th, 2012Lawmakers claim to be interested in cutting acts of useless federal spending. If they were serious, they would close the 77 ‘fusion centers’ currently…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 29th, 2012A leading Democratic senator has asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) “to review existing U.S. facilities and identify factors to be considered in the…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2012National security experts “estimate that the amount of material that is over-classified by the federal government ranges from 50% – 90%,” a top secrecy…

Over 80% of Bush tax cuts reward wealthBy Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 17th, 2012More than 80% of Bush tax cuts reward wealth rather than small business owners or labor, according…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 5th, 2012“Could a voting machine company with deep financial ties to the Romney family help Republicans steal the presidential election in Ohio?” That’s the question…

The ‘War on Poverty’ will only be lost only if we surrender the fightBy Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 31st, 2012Ronald Reagan often has been quoted as saying, “We fought a…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 27th, 2012It’s become quite tough for ordinary Americans to determine what’s actually going on during this Great Recession, with so many lies and counter-lies about…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 16th, 2012A simple thought recently hit us here at The American Spark: Who precisely is buying the Democratic and Republican parties?Now we probably don’t have…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 7th, 2012Last year the official count of U.S. residents living in poverty was the highest in the measure’s 53-year history, according to a study recently…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 25th, 2012Federal entities often are failing to enforce laws which protect U.S. servicemembers from improper foreclosures and burdensome mortgage interest rates, according to a little-discussed…