Pardoned Jan. 6 Insurrectionist Arrested For Death Threats Against House Minority Leader
One of those pardoned individuals has just been arrested for threatening to murder House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
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…
Obama UNderfunds Consumer Agency
By Cliff Montgomery – June 17th, 2009President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 will continue a dangerous under-funding of theConsumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the top federal regulator of…
Bailout Asset Managers
By Cliff Montgomery – June 4th, 2009Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent to bail out Wall Street tycoons. Thus it’s perhaps understandable that the feds would hire private…
Oil Prices Rise
By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2009Oil prices soon will post their greatest one-month spike since May, 1999. It’s still too early to determine if thissharp rise will usher in…
Pentagon Cyberweapons
By Cliff Montgomery – May 26th, 2009The Obama Administration is quietly creating a Defense Department command which will “develop newoffensive cyber-weapons,” according to a little-noticed article in The Washington Post…
Big Business Bankruptcies
By Cliff Montgomery – May 23rd, 2009There is discussion in the White House and on Capitol Hill of extending taxpayer-funded bailouts to a host ofother huge financial institutions, under the…
Workers Running Auto Giants
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 23rd, 2009Top executives at Chrysler Financial spurned a much-needed government loan because they couldn’t bringthemselves to accept its conditional pay limits, stated a study released…
Foreclosures Up 24 Percent
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 18th, 2009Nearly one quarter of U.S. households fell into danger of losing their homes during the first three months of2009–a free-fall that certainly will grow…
Soldiers Legal Rights
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr, 13th, 2009The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) is meant to protect servicemembers from “judicial andadministrative proceedings and transactions that may adversely affect their legal rights…
Senator Conrad Budget
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 8th, 2009Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) last Thursday on the Senate floor exposed a number of GOP distortions, half-truths and flat-out lies regarding that chamber’s Fiscal…
Gao Oil Gas Companies Royalties
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 2nd, 2009The Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a tough review exposing the InteriorDepartment’s poor oversight of oil and gas companies which are allowed to…
Republicans Aig Bonuses
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2009Senate Republicans appear set to effectively kill any reasonable attempt to reclaim the bonuses which”bailout” companies like insurance giant American International Group (AIG) are…
Bush Renditions
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2009An eye-opening Congressional Research Service report issued on January 21st, 2009, the day afterPresident Obama took office, discussed the explosive subject of rendition–which the…
Gao Transportation
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 10th, 2009President Obama’s plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure is both a vital effort to rebuild the country’s crumbling transportation system and a boost to its…
GOP Stimulus Dollars
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2009Republican state governors such as Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), Rick Perry (Texas) and Haley Barbour(Mississippi) recently have produced quite a spectacle with their rejection of…
Hud Mortgages
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 18th, 2009For too long, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been little more than a second-tier federal agency. But America’s current economic…
Economic Stimulus
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 14th, 2009 Congressional negotiators announced a stimulus deal on Wednesday which forged a somewhat slimmer $787 billion economic plan than what President Barack Obama had…
Gao High Risk Economy
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 7th, 2009Every two years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) releases an updated list of federaloperations, programs and policies that either are “high risks” for…
Obama Lobbyists
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb. 2nd, 2009President Barack Obama may have banned earmarks in his $825 billion economic stimulus package, butlobbyists, lawmakers and interest groups will still be allowed to…
Stimulus Deficit
Our federal deficit problem “is overwhelmingly the result of other factors,’ declares think-tank.By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 29th, 2009President Obama’s $825 billion economic stimulus package is a much-needed boost that…
Vet Long Term Care
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 26th, 2009A January 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) study reveals that the Veterans Affairs Office isfailing to provide Congress and the American people with adequate…
Obama Economic Plan
By Cliff Montgomery – Jan. 24th, 2009Let’s face it: The chief reason Barack Obama now sits in the White House is that he definitely is not George W. Bush.The first…