Federal government spent nearly $70 billion on "climate change activities" since 2008
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The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 the federal government has spent nearly $70 billion on “climate change activities.” Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe presented the new CRS report on the Senate Floor Thursday to make the point that the Obama administration has been focused on “green” defense projects to the detriment of the military. The report revealed that from fiscal years 2008 through 2012 the federal government spent $68.4 billion to combat climate change. The Department of Defense also spent $4 billion of its budget, the report adds, on climate change and energy efficiency activities in that same...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
Ninth Circuit to Determine Whether "Spiritualist" Charter Schools Get Tax Dollars
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CASE NOTE: 10-17720 Plans Inc. v. Sacramento City Unified School District[caption id="attachment_4394" align="alignright" width="400" caption="Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals - San Francisco"][/caption] SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 17, 2012 – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a case this morning on the issue of whether the Sacramento Unified School District is violating constitutional principles of separation of church and state in awarding Waldorf-method charter public schools tax-based funding. In the case brought by People for Legal and Nonsectarian Schools (PLANS), PLANS argues that Waldorf-method schools should not publicly funded because they are rooted in a spiritual philosophy called...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
Bye bye unemployment benefits (states roll off the federal extended benefits program - 200,000 hit)
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Bye bye unemployment benefitsBy Tami Luhby @CNNMoney May 11, 2012: 3:17 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program. Nearly half of them live in California, and the rest reside in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Texas. The federal extended benefits program has provided the jobless with up to 20 weeks of unemployment checks after they've run through their state and their federal emergency benefits, which together last up to 79 weeks. But the extended benefits...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
Number of PhDs receiving federal aid more than tripled from 2007 to 2010
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Higher education is meant to be the path to success, but that conventional wisdom may not be entirely true. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, between 2007 and 2010, the percentage of people with a graduate degree who were on food stamps or were receiving another kind of federal aid more than doubled, reaching 360,000. In 2007, 9,776 people with PhD’s were receiving some kind of aid. In 2010, that number had more than tripled to 33,655. For people with master’s degrees, the number spiked from 101,683 to 293,029. Austin Nichols of the Urban Institute crunched those numbers for...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
Forest Service Demands $80,000 to Turn Over Public Records to Non-profit Group
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Phoenix, AZ -- Transparency in the Obama Administration has a price. The U.S. Forest Service wants $78,935.80 before it will share public records the Goldwater Institute has requested under the Freedom of Information Act. Not only is the U.S. Forest Service blocking emergency repairs to the City of Tombstone’s Huachuca Mountain water supply, it is now hiding the documents that might explain its outrageous conduct. In a showdown with the “town too tough to die,†the U.S. Forest Service blocked Tombstone from repairing its mountain spring aqueduct after it was destroyed in the 2011 Monument Fire. The Forest Service is...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
Pentagon gets new spy service
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The U.S. is getting a new spy service. The Defense Clandestine Service is being created through a Pentagon reorganization, using existing personnel and funds, to increase the Defense Department's role in the collection of sensitive intelligence about threats to the U.S. Those areas of spycraft have long been associated with the clandestine service at the Central Intelligence Agency. A senior defense official said the work of the new service would complement, rather than compete with, the CIA.
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
James Bovard: The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled
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The Obama administration is on the verge of compelling most of the largest corporations and universities, as well as many smaller businesses, to adopt a 7% hiring quota for disabled job applicants—lest they be debarred from doing business with the federal government. This radical personnel policy could raise costs and slash the productivity of almost 200,000 companies with U.S. government contracts. The Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), declared: "For nearly 40 years, the rules have said that contractors simply need to make a 'good faith' effort to recruit and hire people with disabilities. Clearly, that's not...
Published on Tuesday 22nd of May 2012 09:25:19 PM
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