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Nick Gillespie Reason Magazine 3/15/2012 Via Instapundit linking to The Fiscal Times comes documentation of just what an easy grader Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu really is. As you’ll recall, a while back the Nobel laureate cum bureaucrat was asked by Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) to grade his performance at DOE. Chu’s humble […] March 15th, 2012 | Tags: "green subsidies", crony capitalism, double-standard, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, GAO, green energy, hypocrisy, Loan Guarantee Program (LGP), Rep. Paul Broun, Wall Street | Category: Banking and finance, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Department of Energy, Economy, Energy, Federal spending, Taxes | Comments are closed
Elizabeth Harrington CNSNews.com 1/3/2012 A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the United States funded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ authority on alleged man-made global warming, with $31.1 million since 2001, nearly half of the panel’s annual budget. The GAO also found that this funding information “was […] January 6th, 2012 | Tags: "global warming", Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Patrick Moore, GAO, global redistribution of wealth, Greenpeace, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), propaganda, science fraud, United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), wind farms, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) | Category: Barack Obama, Energy, Environment, Science/Research/Technology, Socialism, State Department, Taxes, United Nations, United States | Comments are closed
Jim Kouri Law Enforcement Examiner 12/16/2011 CTCEU arrests a small portion of the estimated 4 to 5.5 million overstays in the United States because of, among other things, competing priorities, but ICE expressed an intention to augment its overstay enforcement resources. The Government Accountability Office — the investigative service of the U.S. Congress — has […] December 16th, 2011 | Tags: Criminal Exploitation Unit (CTCEU), Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), GAO, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Visa Waiver Program | Category: Department of Homeland Security, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, National Security | Comments are closed
Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 11/30/2011 President Obama earlier this month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering for human consumption was backfiring. The agriculture spending bill Mr. Obama signed the week before Thanksgiving did not […] November 30th, 2011 | Tags: GAO, horse-slaughter industry, recession, Rep. Adrian Smith | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Congress, Economy | Comments are closed
Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller 11/29/2011 A newly released internal audit appears to indicate that the Government Accountability Office and President Barack Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development incorrectly argued that a specific organization wasn’t ACORN-affiliated. HUD’s office of general counsel and the GAO have both claimed that Affordable Housing Centers of America, or […] November 29th, 2011 | Tags: Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA), GAO, NeighborWorks America | Category: ACORN, Barack Obama, Congress, corruption, Department of Housing and Urban Development, federal funding, Taxes | Comments are closed
Nicole Ozer Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director ACLU of Northern California 7/27/2011 Today, the House Judiciary Committee is voting whether to approve legislation that would create a sweeping new provision requiring Internet companies (email, cloud, social networking, and more) to collect and retain hundreds of millions of records about the identity of online users. […] July 29th, 2011 | Tags: "cookies", "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011", Apple, consumer protection, GAO, Google, H. R. 1981, House Judiciary Committee, IP addresses, Microsoft, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Rep. Dan Lungren, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Dennis Ross, Rep. Elton Gallegly, Rep. Howard Coble, Rep. J. Randy Forbes, Rep. Lamar Smith, Rep. Sandy Adams, Rep. Steve Chabot, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Tim Griffin, Rep. Tom Marino, Rep. Trent Franks, Rep. Trey Gowdy, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Sheila Jackson Lee | Category: Congress, Department of Justice, Internet, law enforcement, legislation, Right to Privacy, Social networking websites, TAKE ACTION!, technology | Comments are closed
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