The U.S. official in charge of the funds that flow into Iraq has confirmed that $6.7 Billion, ear-marked for Iraqi re-construction, is missing and likely stolen. And that the $6.7 Billion is part of a larger $27.2 Billion sent to Iraq in cash that is simply “unaccounted for.” According to CBS News, the inspector general […]
June 13, 2011
With America’s economy in the gutter, gas prices pinching wallets, jobs vanishing, and the national debt mounting, members of Congress proclaim that they “feel Americans’ pain” and are committed to cutting back. But that noble dedication to the public’s trust doesn’t apply to one of their favorite perks — globetrotting to expensive resort locations around […]
April 22, 2011
Have no fear about those skyrocketing gas prices! President Barack Obama has decided to launch yet another task force, joining his deficit commission, and his other deficit commission, and his other energy independence commission, and his national energy policy task force on energy efficiency, to get to the bottom of why gas prices have been […]
March 30, 2011
Sarah Palin, Queen of Paychecks, has struck again. Now, I know you’ll be shocked by this. Gosh, I sure was. But it appears that the teabaggers’ darling, Sarah Palin, has somehow managed to find a way to make yet another personal profit. This time, it’s from a piece of Alaska state legislation that she personally […]
March 25, 2011
Do you ever get the felling that the problem with our “distinguished leaders” in Washington isn’t that they don’t *get* what the problems facing average Americans are; but they simply don’t *CARE* what the problems are? The official death toll in Japan from last week’s 8.9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami topped 10,035. And what “critical […]
June 15, 2011
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