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  • Trump Deports JD Vance and His Wife

    Tuesday, April 29, 2025
    According to aides who were present when Trump discussed the issue, but who choose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, Trump said he was sick of Vance and wanted to fire him. “I wanted him to be my attack dog,” said Trump, “but he appears foolish on television. He dropped the college football trophy. He met with Pope Francis and the next day the pope died. Vance is toxic, and I don’t want him to come near me. He just doesn’t look as good on television as I thought he would.”   read more
  • Nuclear Test Site Applies for World Heritage Status

    Sunday, February 22, 2009
    The United Nations World Heritage List honors 878 cultural and natural sites that have “outstanding universal value.” Examples include the Acropolis in Greece, the Taj Mahal in India, Stonehenge in England and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. So it ma...   read more
  • Beyond Fingerprints: FBI, Lockheed Build Billion-Dollar ID System

    Saturday, February 21, 2009
    The current identification system used by the federal government, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, is ten years old and out of date. The FBI, with primary contractor Lockheed Martin, is developing, for $1 billion, its re...   read more
  • The Ultimate Bureaucrat: Paid $150,000 to Do Nothing

    Saturday, February 21, 2009
    Since July 16, 2007, the Department of Labor has paid Bob Whitmore $12,500 a month to not come to work. Whitmore is the director of the recordkeeping system of the Occupational Safety and health Administration (OSHA). More than a year and a half a...   read more
  • Bush-Obama Rescue Plan=Herbert Hoover II: Ismael Hossein-zadeh

    Saturday, February 21, 2009
    Drake University economics professor Ismael Hossein-zadeh argues that the Bush/Obama administrations’ response to the financial meltdown is exactly the same as the one the administration of Herbert Hoover tried at the beginning of the Great Depres...   read more
  • 75 Critically Endangered Languages in U.S.

    Friday, February 20, 2009
    Each year, UNESCO issues an atlas of the world’s endangered languages. Surprising as it may seem, in the United States, there are 75 languages that are considered “critically endangered,” including 40 that are spoken by fewer than 11 people. Among...   read more
  • Why are Presidential Helicopters Being Built in Italy?

    Friday, February 20, 2009
    President Obama faces a tricky decision regarding the construction of a new fleet of 28 state-of-the-art Marine One presidential helicopters, priced at $400 million per chopper.   The project was passed on to Obama from the Bush administration. ...   read more
  • Grading the Energy Stimulus: A to F

    Friday, February 20, 2009
    Earlier this week, President Obama signed into law the $787 billion economic stimulus package. Of this sum, more than $80 billion is being directed to start a new, national clean energy infrastructure. Many are acclaiming this clean energy investm...   read more
  • The Case of the Unwanted Non-Terrorists

    Thursday, February 19, 2009
    Seventeen Chinese Muslims are still being held at Guantánamo even though the U.S. government has already declared them innocent of any threat to Americans and a federal judge ordered their release into the continental United States last October. O...   read more
  • Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

    Thursday, February 19, 2009
    One of the great and most mysterious failures of the administration of President George W. Bush was its inability to capture Osama bin Laden, the alleged financial backer of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Considering that bin Laden is 6’4” and in nee...   read more
  • Bush’s Secret Society and Geronimo’s Skull

    Thursday, February 19, 2009
    While they were at Yale, both Presidents Bush were members of the Skull and Bones secret society. (So was Sen. John Kerry, George W. Bush’s opponent in the 2004 presidential election.) According to legend, in 1918, Prescott Bush, father of George ...   read more
  • Infrastructure Job Plan Skewed Towards States with Low Unemployment

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    The stimulus bill allocates $98.3 billion for projects related to transportation and infrastructure. These expenditures are expected to generate large numbers of jobs. However, states with low unemployment are getting more money per capita unemplo...   read more
  • The Danger of Manufacturing Decline: Patrick J. Buchanan

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    Writing in favor of the creation of a new industrial policy for the United States, Pat Buchanan cites some grim facts. “As a source of American jobs, manufacturing, for the first time in our history, fell below health care and education in 2001, b...   read more
  • Obama Reverses Bush Policy on Mercury Pollution

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    Throughout its eight years in power, the Bush administration stubbornly opposed U.S. involvement in any international treaty that would control mercury pollution. Mercury, most of which is generated by coal-fueled power plants, settles in the ocea...   read more
  • Republican Districts Gain More Jobs from Stimulus than Democratic Ones

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    According to estimates released by the White House, each of the 435 Congressional districts in the United States will gain between 6,000 and 11,000 jobs as a result of the just passed stimulus bill. However, strange as it may seem, Republican dist...   read more
  • U.S. Military Looking for Skilled Immigrants

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    The United States Army will begin offering American citizenship to skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, in exchange for their military services.   Currently, only immigrants who are permanent residents with “gr...   read more
  • What’s in the Stimulus Bill?: Aid to the Economically Stressed

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    During the presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain, there was lots and lots of talk about helping the middle-class, but we didn’t hear much about the 38 million Americans who are living below the poverty line. That’s because lowe...   read more
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