Posts Tagged ‘ corruption ’

Future of Homeland Security :: Bush’s Pet Project Dead? Let’s Hope

Future of Homeland Security :: Bush’s Pet Project Dead? Let’s Hope

HSPI Releases Task Force Report on the Future of the Homeland Security Council. The report is the product of a bipartisan Task Force composed of former senior federal officials, practitioners at the state and local levels, and subject matter experts in the area of homeland security policymaking. Co-chaired by HSPI Director Frank Cilluffo and Deputy Director Daniel Kaniewski, the Task Force identified and reviewed arguments for and against merging the Homeland Security Council and National Security Council, and also assessed crucial factors that merit consideration whether or not there is a merger. It was just recently The Contemplation uncovered...

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I’m Embarrassed to be a US Citizen Because . . .

I’m Embarrassed to be a US Citizen Because . . .

Two teenage boys were startled from their sleep when armed men kicked in the door of their bedroom. The men were members of the Independence, Missouri, police SWAT team. They were looking for a man suspected of child pornography who lived in the other side of the duplex the boys’ family lives in. Officers said they say they wanted to search every part of the house to make sure they got him. (Read Article) During a meeting of the Maricopa County, Arizona, Board of Supervisorsone gentleman used his public comment time to sing a birthday song to board chairman...

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Palin Tax Problems

Contributing editor Lee A. Sheppard of Tax Analysts, the nonprofit publisher of Tax Notes and other print and online publications, raises the thorny question in “Palin’s Reimbursement Problem” in this week’s Tax Notes. Did Sheppard find a problem with Palin’s return? “Darn right we found a problem,” she writes with her typical flair, “and we’re going to speak directly to the American people about it.” “In 2007,” she writes, “Sarah Palin received $60,441 in reimbursements from the state of Alaska for travel expenses and per diems for days she worked outside the state capital. All of these items were...

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