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Earmarks up and down
August 19th, 2008 / Taxpayers Sense
During this election year, lawmakers are showing slight restraint in writing the earmarks in the FY 2009 spending bills, according to an analysis by Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS). The House has increased the number and value of earmarks at about the same rate. The Senate has cut earmarks by 16% in the spending bills in terms of total dollars. The analysis is based on all the bills that have passed full committee and are awaiting action in both chambers.

Stevens makes nice profit
August 19th, 2008 / Taxpayers Sense
New information has surfaced that alleges Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) turned a $5,000 investment into $129,250 profit with the help of a secret no-interest loan that the Senator had not previously disclosed.

Downturn is good news
August 17th, 2008 / Llewellyn Rockwell
Sometimes the bad news is the good news. So it is with the report that retail sales are down by 0.1 percent in July, the sharpest drop in many months. Why good news? It means that consumers are starting to cut back. They could be going into less debt. They might be saving more. They are being more careful about long-term plans pending short-term trends.

Russian attacks looming?
August 17th, 2008 / Jim Kouri
Russia's invasion of the sovereign nation of Georgia has pushed major news stories off the front-pages of newspapers and news magazines, and usually is the lead story on broadcast news shows. The images of Russian tanks pouring into Georgia is a reminder that Putin's Russia is not to be ignored by US officials.

Obama's CPUSA friendship
August 17th, 2008 / Cliff Kincaid
With the release of a 40-page "Unfit for Publication" report attacking Jerome Corsi's new book, The Obama Nation, it should be obvious that the media-backed presidential candidate, Barack Obama, is terrified of having his carefully concealed communist and foreign connections exposed to public view.

Going for the Heart
August 14th, 2008 / Llewellyn Rockwell
The heart of the modern state is the central bank. By heart I mean the very thing that makes it work, and without which the modern state would quickly wither and die. It is the thing that makes the money. As such, it purports to be our stabilizer, our source of employment, the fuel behind the economic growth that brings us technology.

Obama's European vision
August 7th, 2008 / Chris Adamo
Fawning over Barack Obama as they did during his recent overseas campaign swing, those cheering multitudes of Europeans said much more about themselves than they did about either Illinois Senator and Democrat presidential candidate or the best course to chart for the future of the United States. Somewhat surprisingly, and despite all of the dutiful and harmonious consensus of Obama's lackeys in the American media, his campaign gained little credibility from the venture.

Nuclear terror in U.S.
August 7th, 2008 / Jim Kouri
The United States Department of Energy maintains emergency response capabilities and assets to quickly respond to potential nuclear and radiological threats within the United States. These capabilities are primarily found at DOE's two key emergency response facilities -- the Remote Sensing Laboratories at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

Lower labor costs now!
August 4th, 2008 / Llewellyn Rockwell
Official data are starting to reveal what close observers have suspected for some time. Layoffs are increasing. Unemployment is on the rise. It now stands at a four-year high of 5.7 percent, which is not high by historical standards, but it stings when you consider that the rate dipped below 4 percent in the late 1990s.

Arctic oil lost to UN
August 3rd, 2008 / Alan Caruba
"The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil, more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan, and Mexico combined, and enough to supply U.S. demand for 12 years." One would have thought Joe Carroll's Bloomberg News report would have evoked some interest by the public and other media outlets. Instead, news of the U.S. Geological Survey was greeted mostly by a giant collective yawn.