ICE Has Several Rules Banning Unreasonable Force
Though agents may only employ “objectively reasonable” force, in reality there have been numerous legal actions regarding questionable practices.
Clean Coal Problems
By Cliff Montgomery – July 22nd, 2010Employing so-called ‘Clean Coal’ technology at U.S. power plants may create a host of legal and economicproblems, according to an instructive Government Accountability Office…
Gulf Stafford Act Assistance
By Cliff Montgomery – June 28th, 2010Washington so far has revealed a frightful inability to handle the growing BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But a congressional…
Financial Meltdown Perfect Crime
By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2010It now seems clear the current global financial crisiswas the result of widespread fraud. And it appearsthat the top criminals work on America’s Wall…
Drilling Into Gas Hydrates
By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2010A 2008 U.S. government study, which discussed potentially disruptive gas sediments on the Gulf Coast sea floor, may offer a clue as to what…
Feds Lack Oil Spill Expertise
By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2010The federal government currently may lack the necessary resources and expertise to stop or clean up amassive oil spill, according to a Congressional Research…
Prisons Are Big Business
By Cliff Montgomery – May 9th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) last month released a study entitled, Economic Impacts of Prison Growth. Its essential findings were telling:A.) America now has…
Bp Lobbying
By Cliff Montgomery – May 4th, 2010A British Petroleum (BP)-leased oil rig located forty miles off the Louisiana coast exploded on April 20th,pouring gargantuan amounts of crude oil into the…
Obama Auto Force
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2010No honest person liked the federal government’scorporate bailouts of 2008-2009. But we at theAmerican Spark feel the special animosity somepeople exhibited toward the bailouts…
Why UNions Still Matter
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 14th, 2010The recent West Virginia mining disaster is a chilling reminder of why unions still matter.”Massey Energy Co., the company which owns the mine, is…
Us Cyberattack Policy
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 4th, 2010″The current policy and legal framework regulating use of cyber-attack by the United States is ill-formed, undeveloped, and highly uncertain,” according to a press…
Oecd Tax Havens
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 30th, 2010The Congressional Research Service (CRS) earlier this month released a study which discussed a major new international initiative against tax havens.The initiative has been…
Pentagon Sexual Assault Prevention
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 27th, 2010The Defense Department and the U.S. Coast Guard need to further improve their prevention and response tooccurrences of sexual assault, according to expert testimony…
Market Crash In 2013
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 22nd, 2010Corporate Debt accumulated during the George W. Bush years of eased regulation may create a secondeconomic crash by 2013, according to DailyFinance, a financial…
Military Suicides
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 16th, 2010Service-member suicides are “definitely” higher than official U.S. Army stats suggest, according to the Soldier’s Advocacy Group of Disposable Warriors, a G.I. activist group…
Republicans Federal Debt
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 11th, 2010America’s federally mandated debt limit has been raised numerous times over the last 10 years, reveals aU.S. government study released in January.There is only…
Derivatives
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 27th, 2010America’s economy has greatly suffered, in large part thanks to risky Wall Street speculation on future trends in volatile commodity prices, interest rates, foreign…
Stiglitz Testimony On Wall Street
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 22nd, 2010Today the House Committee on Financial Services held a full committee hearing on the Performance andIncentives of America’s Financial Sector. Perhaps the most engaging…
Us Financial Oversight
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 3rd, 2010U.S. financial regulation is piecemeal and many essential financial activities remain completely unregulated, according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS).…
Sec Recommendations Ignored
By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 22nd, 2009The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to implement 224 recommendations submitted byits Inspector General since December 2007–or more than 60% of those…
Us Poverty
By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 25th, 2009The Great Recession has shown an awful ability to drive hard-working Americans into poverty–and to makepoverty especially dire for those who already had nothing.The…