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  • Anti Patriot Act

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 5th, 2009The Senate Judiciary Committee last week began its debate of legislation intended to extend three provisionsof the Bush-era Anti-Patriot Act which are set to…

  • Pentagon Contractors Afghanistan

    By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 1st, 2009 U.S. Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan now outnumber the uniformed American military personnel in that country, declares a recent study from the Congressional…

  • Pentagon Contractors

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 26th, 2009The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) often is called “the congressional watchdog” and “the investigative arm of Congress.” On September 22nd, GAO released a…

  • Health Care Costs

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 21st, 2009If anyone doubts that American health care costs are needlessly spiraling out of control, a fascinatinginternational cost comparison of 30 democracies discussed by the…

  • Government Secrecy

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 18th, 2009The Congressional Research Service (CRS) on August 31st released a intriguing study entitled, Access to Government Information In the United States.It reminds us that…

  • Joe Wilson Contributors

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 13th, 2009Addison (Joe) Wilson made something of a fool out of himself Wednesday night, during President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress discussing the dire need…

  • Private Healthcare Problems

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 8th, 2009A very interesting health care report was issued on July 29th by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). It reminds us of the folly in…

  • GOP Public Healthcare

    By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 4th, 2009Conservative lawmakers who refuse to discuss any public health care option for average Americans have longenjoyed the benefits of a government-run health care service…

  • FISA Lawsuit Dismissal

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 30th, 2009A federal court on Aug. 20th threw out a lawsuit which challenged the legality of the FISA Amendments Act(FAA)–a controversial law that allows the…

  • Kennedy On Health Care

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 26th, 2009Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), perhaps the most effective U.S. Senator of the modern era, died last night. Hewas 77 years old.The late lawmaker’s Senate…

  • Military Mind Drugs

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug 21st, 2009A top biological and chemical arms control expert called Wednesday for an immediate ban on the use of genetherapy and other life sciences for…

  • Public Health Care

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 17th, 2009Despite the Obama Administration’s apparent waffling on providing a federal public option for health care, “atleast 13 states have invested millions of dollars this…

  • Criminalizing Homelessness

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 13th, 2009The National Law Center on lessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the less recently published a joint study entitled, s Not Handcuffs:…

  • Health Care Reform Racism

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 8th, 2009Some recent town hall meetings on health care reform have been brought to a halt by a handful of ‘protesters’,who work hard to turn…

  • Recovery Act Funds

    By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 4th, 2009The Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is an economic stimulus plan intended to re-start America’sfaltering economy. But in allocating the Recovery Act’s highway…

  • Pentagon Intelligence Lacks Oversight

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 31st, 2009The House Intelligence Committee last month stated that the Pentagon has clouded the distinction betweenordinary intelligence collection–which is overseen by congressional intelligence panels–and “clandestine”military…

  • Obama Regulating Wall Street

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 27th, 2009A short Congressional Research Service report issued on July 17th discusses the first of President Obama’s”sweeping reforms of the financial services regulatory system.”The American…

  • Global Warming

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 24th, 2009John Holdren, President Obama’s Science and Technology Adviser, on June 16th released a major study onthe problems that America may soon face thanks to…

  • Nobel Laureates Obama

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 20th, 2009A climate bill which the House of Representatives passed in June will fail to achieve its goals without a sharpincrease in research and development…

  • Bush Spy Program

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 15th, 2009Congress in 2008 instructed intelligence agency Inspectors General to draft an unclassified study on the BushAdministration’s domestic spying program. That report was released on…

  • Classified Information Costs

    By Cliff Montgomery- July 10th, 2009America’s post-9/11 security classification system appears to cost taxpayers around $10 billion every year,states a recent government study.Data classification activities in government and industry totaled…

  • FEMA May Lack Prepardness

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 6th, 2009The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lacks the ability to fully determine its emergencypreparedness–even though since 2003 the federal government has spent nearly $5…

  • Global Warming Making Foods Toxic

    By Cliff Montgomery – July 1st, 2009Cassava is a plant first grown in the tropics of the Americas. Millions around the world now depend on its starchy root as a…