Obama’s Cash-Flush Cabinet, Cash-Cow Politics and Cash-Strapped Budget Almost halfway into the first year of his second term, President Obama’s Cabinet remains seven slots short of a full team. He certainly won’t win a diversity award; his Cabinet will have fewer African Americans and Latinos than Clinton did 20 years …
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Too bad for corporate moguls that they can’t yet patent news events. If they could, they could turn the dedication ceremony for George W. Bush’s presidential library in Dallas last Thursday into one hell of a moneymaker. Big Pharma could market the DVD as an emetic. That would be strong …
An Investigative Report by Gary Null, PhD and Jeremy Stillman Solar Storms: Katrina Times 1,000? A Real Armageddon is Possible but Not Inevitable An Investigative Report by Gary Null, PhD and Jeremy Stillman In the five days leading up to Hurricane Katrina making its landfall, I …
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services haven’t had a Senate-confirmed administrator since 2006. The Federal Labor Relations Authority has had only a single member since January and can’t issue decisions. And the Election Assistance Commission hasn’t had any commissioners at all since 2011. All presidential administrations have vacancies. …
President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated. Instead, the mastery mostly flows from a White House …
I just want to bring this to your attention. I’ve been making the point for a while that while power-holding Democrats are getting better on identity issues (issues around minority rights and related issues), they’ve been universally bad on economic issues [2]. In fact, the whole bipartisan Beltway consensus is built around both parties …
Vegetarians were 32 percent less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart disease than people who ate meat and fish, scientists at England’sOxford University reported. The researchers followed almost 45,000 adults, one-third of them vegetarians, for an average of 11 1/2 years and accounted for factors such as their …
In an effort to curb the growing epidemic of Americans abusing prescription drugs, the NYPD will begin asking pharmacies in the city to mix in so-called “bait bottles” containing GPS locator chips into their stocks of prescription drug medications, CBS News reports. According to NYC Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, prescription drug abuse …
The truth is often painful but nonetheless it is important that we live in the real world. Just as little kids have to come to grips with the fact that there is no Santa Claus, it is necessary for millions of liberals, including many who think of themselves as highly …
As the White House eyes new gun-controls following the Sandy Hook school massacre and firearms dealers are seeing guns sales spike [3], a handful of recent investigative reports suggest that the nation’s state-run system of screening gun buyers for mental illness is mostly a mirage—except in a dozen states where governors want …
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” -Karl Marx Lawrence Lessig’s Republic Lost documents the corrosive effect of money on our political process. Lessig persuasively makes the case that we are witnessing the loss of our republican form of government, as politicians increasingly represent those who fund their campaigns, rather …
If this weren’t so terrible, it would be funny. The Administration is worried that there won’t be a fiscal cliff deal by year end. Per Bloomberg: The co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s 2010 fiscal commission said it’s unlikely the president and Congress will reach a deal by the end of this …
Can Romney possibly recover? A survey conducted between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16 by the Pew Research Center — before the “47 percent victim” video came to light – showed Obama ahead of Romney 51% to 43% among likely voters. That’s the biggest margin in the September survey prior to a …
Bill Clinton is clearly the most talented politician of our era. It is difficult to imagine Clinton losing an election to any of the people who have run for office in the last two decades. But his skills as a politician should not prevent us from understanding the track record …
The latest on health and nutrition Environmental studies from Bill McKibbin Disappointed by the vacuous rhetoric from the Conventions? Here’s a closer look. The Great Deregulator The FBI installing a one billion dollar face recognition system across America? and more … Related articles The Gary Null Show – Peasants and …
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