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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…