Obama Reaches Across Aisle and Taps Republican with Disaster Experience

Unlike Bush, Obama chooses seasoned veteran with actual disaster relief experience, instead of inept political crony to head FEMA

NY Assembly Passes Bill That Throws Out Mandatory Minimums for Drug Users, and Looks to Treatment Programs, Not Jail for Non Violent Drug Users

Treatment is seen as more effective and much less costly than incarceration

Obama Asks Congress to Cut Wasteful Spending

Willing to work with both parties to reduce pork and other waste, current spending plan contains over 8,000 different pork items

Chavez to Steal Cargill's Venezuelan Rice Operations

Government forced price controls leading to food shortages, underproduction, and lack of private investment

FDIC Head Claims Agency May be Bankrupt by Years end

Agency scrambling to raise fees on banks to regain solvency

Governor of Puerto Rico Claims Island Government is 'Bankrupt'

Island will also get about $5,000,000,000.00 in federal stimulus money, even though they pay no federal income tax

20% of US Mortgage Holders 'Under Water'

Figure expected to rise as economy worsens

Blue Dog Democrats Want Obama to Pay More Attention to the Ever Growing National Debt

Left unchecked, national debt could balloon to a whopping 18 trillion, exceeding GDP by 2010

GA State Legislator (R) Wants to Limit Embryo Implants on all to Save on Welfare Costs (Octuplet Mom), Instead of Calling for Actual Welfare Reform

Welfare costs used as an excuse to limit embryo implants, when welfare itself needs reforming

Brain Drain : Highly Skilled Workers Leaving USA

Many immigrants finding greener pastures in their native homelands, convoluted work visa program partly to blame

Los Angeles County has Dubious Honor as America's Welfare Capital

20% of county now taking payments of one kind or another, percentage expected to rise, raising costs for the rest of the county/state

Humiliating Strip Searches Being Performed in MD for Some Traffic Violations

Complaints and lawsuits for unnecessary strip searches coming out of the Baltimore area

High Profits Created by the Failed Drug War Lead to Escalating Mexican Style Violence in Phoenix Arizona, Border Areas

Phoenix experiencing Mexican style kidnapping and violent crimes, as drug war induces criminal behavior

Beware - Your Pharmacy may Switch Your Rx to a Higher Profit Generic Without Telling You, Possibly Putting you in Danger

Pharmacies switching prescriptions to cheaper generics, which have different inactive ingredients, affecting absorption and other problems in some patients

Iceland Melts Down, Next on Tap, Ukraine?

Financial crisis in Ukraine could lead to the next implosion - currency now plunging, political unrest

Washington DC Sends 30 Billion More $ to Failed Insurer AIG, So They Can Continue to Make Bad Investments

Corporate welfare alive and well, AIG considered 'too big to fail', continues to suck taxpayer money

Washington State Sheriff's Deputy Uses Excessive Force on 15 Year Old Girl

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Homeland Security Chief Advocating Mandatory Spy Chips in Drivers Licenses

Civil libertarians and christian groups opposed because of 'big brother' implications

Dirty Money : Gold Mining

Gold mines emit high levels of mercury, are expensive to clean up, and often the companies don't even pay royalties to the Federal Government!

US Expat in Argentina Estimates Length of Time Ponzi Scheme Madoff With No Investments to Back Up Clients

Madoff was naked on investments for 13 years, Slats Johnson predicted 20 way before the bad news broke out

Bolivia's Morales' Socialistic Policies Hampering Development/Investment, Hurting Those Intended on Helping

Huge lithium deposits largely undeveloped, partly due to deterrents to investment, like large hold backs to government coffers