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By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 2nd, 2014The U.S. Congressional Elections of 2014 will be upon us before we know it. We at The American Spark feel it’s only right to…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 30th, 2014The U.S. Congressional Elections of 2014 will soon be upon us. It’s time for The American Spark to reveal to its readers who is…

By Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 31st, 2014Those who call for a low U.S. income tax rate on corporations often say that the nation’s statutory corporate tax rate of 35 percent…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 23rd, 2014New York City officials have quietly agreed to pay nearly $600,000 to a band of Occupy Wall Street protesters, as compensation for what the…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 12th, 2014 covered the daily activities of the 2012 Democratic National Convention (DNC) held in the city of Charlotte, NC. A large amount of our…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 7th, 2014American ports – which handle over $1.3 trillion in cargo every year – remain open to dangerous and disruptive cyber-security attacks, according to a…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 13th, 2014The U.S. Defense Department can’t account for how it spends your tax dollars, according to an eye-opening federal testimony released today.The testimony came from…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 6th, 2014Duke University Professor Nicholas Carnes knows a few things about the American economy and its real influence on our society at large. After all,…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 29th, 2014A recent academic study appears to reveal a truth about America that grassroots causes like the Occupy movement state plainly: Democracy in this country…

By Cliff Montgomery – Dec. 12th, 2013Federal officials say that the Department of land Security (DHS) is ‘essential to America’s dire battleagainst all domestic threats’. Yet DHS – the third-largest…

By Cliff Montgomery – Nov. 30th, 2013A U.S.-produced flyer released to Internet cafes has listed a number of ‘suspicious activities’ which a terrorist might employ at those businesses.The document at…

By Cliff Montgomery – Oct. 8th, 2013How to explain the current government shutdown? Perhaps we might conduct a thought experiment…Suppose for a moment, dear reader, that you and I run…

By Cliff Montgomery – Sept. 19th, 2013More than five years after the start of the Great Recession, a recent U.S. congressional report on the economy has stated that “a number…

By Cliff Montgomery – July 29th, 2013A Yemeni journalist whom the Obama Administration lobbied to keep behind bars recently was released fromjail by the country’s president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.The…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 30th, 2013 The Obama Administration has created quite a spectacle in its drive to punish all those who leak secrets to the media – or,…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 27th, 2013A very short, four-page study outlining the real value of the U.S. minimum wage – or, to be precise, its breathtaking loss of value…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 23rd, 2013The U.S. needs to invest at least $3.6 trillion in its infrastructure by 2020 if the country is to avoid an inevitable and dangerous…

By Cliff Montgomery – June 11th, 2013The London Guardian perfectly stated the matter last week.“Under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 31st, 2013Lawmakers from all sides say that America is in a fiscal crunch. They tell children there is not enough federal money for schools. They…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 15th, 2013The top official of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has quit after reports revealed that numerous members of his staff had targeted conservative organizations…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 6th, 2013The issue of mountaintop mining – a method of coal mining in which a mountain’s top is sheared off to obtainaccess to coal seams…

By Cliff Montgomery – May 1st, 2013In honor of International Workers’ Day – which many in the labor and Occupy movements around the world refer to as ‘May Day’ -…

By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 30th, 2013The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to “address challenges impeding its ability to ensure chemical safety,” stated a telling report published in March by…