Archive for the ‘Government Stories’ Category

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Obama’s Latest Big Brother Plan.


The Obama administration seeks to empower a very powerful government agency you have probably never heard of with new and expanded powers that will have a direct consequence on every American if they are successful in their efforts to implement national health care reforms.
The Obama White House is also drunk with power and is seeking [...]

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Secret Document Exposes Iran’s Nuclear Trigger.


Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.
The notes, from Iran’s most sensitive military nuclear project, describe a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the component of a nuclear bomb that triggers an explosion. Foreign intelligence agencies [...]

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Found! 22 Million Missing E-mails From Bush White House.


WASHINGTON — Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to [...]

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Financial Reform Bill Highlights the Need for Real Reform.


The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill aimed at preventing a repeat of the financial crisis that shook the global economy in the fall of 2008. The sweeping measure would transform the regulatory landscape for banks and other financial firms.
Although it drew immediate praise from the Obama administration and consumer groups, some [...]

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Should Anthropologists Go to War?


Anthropologists have traditionally had a pretty wonkish reputation, earnestly taking field notes while interviewing a tribal chief or lecturing in some college classroom about the intricacies of indigenous clan-systems. If the Pentagon has its way, though, more anthropologists will exchange their tweed for military fatigues and leave the halls of academe for the front lines. [...]

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A Peace Prize to a War President.


OSLO — Newly enshrined among the world’s great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Eleven months into his presidency, a fresh Obama doctrine. Evil must be vigorously opposed, he declared as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. At the same time, he made an impassioned case for building a [...]

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Matt Taibbi on Obama’s Big Sellout.


Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that [...]

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Al Gore Admits Temperatures Cause CO2 to Increase, Not the Other Way Around.


On Breitbart.tv:

Al Gore finally comes clean.

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Is the U.S. Falling Behind in Weather-Control Technology?


SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding a crude furnace and a box of silver iodide solution that some scientists believe could help offer relief from searing droughts.
This is a cloud-seeding machine designed to increase rainfall by spraying a chemical vapor into the clouds. [...]

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L.A. Agrees to Limit Medical-Marijuana Dispensaries.


What do you think, should there be limits on how many medical marijuana outlets a city has, and where they can be situated? Tamara Audi reports on an effort to do just that in Los Angeles, for the Wall Street Journal:
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday delayed a vote on a much-anticipated medical marijuana [...]

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