Congress Given Oversight Manual To Reign In Presidency, Courts
At a moment when the president openly refers to himself as a king, the power of Congress to conduct oversight has become vitally important.
Rebuilding Household Wealth
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…
Obama And Reporters
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…
Are Generals Traitors Too
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,…
Us Minimum Wage Since 1968
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…
Us Infrastructure In Serious Decline
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…
Time For Obama Impeachment
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…
Congress Buys Weapons Pentagon Doesnt Want
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…
IRS Boss Resigns
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…
Mountaintop Mining
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…
Ceo To Worker Pay Gap
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’ -…
Problems Continue At EPA
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…
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…