FEMA Flood Insurance May Lapse In January
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is the primary source of flood insurance coverage for U.S. residential properties.
Lawmakers Policies Create Terrorism
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 20th, 2013“Four Republican lawmakers…strongly urged the Obama Administration Saturday to treat the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings as an enemy combatant,” declared The…
DHS Suspicious Activity Reporting
By Cliff Montgomery – Apr. 6th, 2013A Department of land Security (DHS) document released in January provided a laundry list of actions performed by citizens and others which local communities…
Koch Brothers
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 25th, 2013It seems that the poster boys for the U.S. neo-conservative movement – oil billionaire magnates Charles and David Koch – may be looking to…
White House Petition
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 21st, 2013The Huffington Post apparently has uncovered a little gem “from the depths of the White House’s ‘We the People’ petition website.” On Tuesday, some…
Federal Courthouses Wildly Expensive
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 11th, 2013Are lawmakers serious about cutting wasteful spending? They could stop building wildly expensive courthouses that the country doesn’t need.“Extra space in courthouses costs an…
Us Income Inequality
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 6th, 2013“U.S. income distribution appears to be among the most unequal of all major industrialized countries and the United States appears to be among the…
Hessel Tribute
By Cliff Montgomery – Mar. 4th, 2013Stéphane Frédéric Hessel died on February 26th. He was 95 years old. Many U.S. media outlets have ignored his passing.To its credit, The New…
Keystone Xl Pipeline
By Cliff Montgomery – Feb.28th, 2013Today, The American Spark points its readers to a very informative federal report which examines the possible environmental fallout which may occur if the now…
GOP Positions UNpopular
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…
Obama Nuke Secrets
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,…
School Shooting Similarities
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…
TSA Workplace
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…
Study On Far Right
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…
Nuke Components
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…
Bush Tax Cuts
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,”…
Fiscal Cliff Myth
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…
Bush Tax Cuts
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…
Romney Ohio
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…
Us Poverty Doubles Without Safety Net
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…
Current State Of Us Economy
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…
Who Is Buying Political Parties
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…
Poverty In Us
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…
Soldiers Mortgage Fraud
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…