Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
Amnesty One and Two — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Call it coincidence if you will; but the Fox News website had an interesting combination of headline stories laid out one above the other. The first, Investigators Recommend Rangel Get Slap on Wrist , was close enough to, Lawmakers: Amnesty Plan in the Works? …close enough to the casual observer one might come to the conclusion [...]
Documents Uncovered by JW Detail Meeting between DHS Secretary Napolitano and Controversial Islamic “Community Leaders”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that detail a two-day meeting on January 27 and 28, 2010, between DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Arab, [...]
Obama And Holder Weaponize American “Justice” — Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo In the past few weeks, America’s legal system has been subjected to an avalanche of outrages from the White House and Department of Justice. But while each individual event, if considered apart from the others, would be sufficient to warrant investigations of corruption and gross ethical lapses, when examined in its [...]
Lawmakers Settle Abuse Cases With Tax Dollars
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles For nearly a decade and a half, U.S. taxpayers have annually dished out about $1 million to settle lawsuits against federal lawmakers accused of abusing or harassing staffers. The money buys silence and quietly vanishes hundreds of complaints from congressional employees who have been sexually [...]
‘No English’ Defense Works In N.J. Drunk Driving Case
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles New Jersey drunken drivers who don’t understand a police officer’s English commands are immune from prosecution thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling, which this week overturned three separate court decisions to side with a Spanish-speaking drug dealer. The case involves a suspected illegal [...]
Funding Corruption and Waste in Afghanistan — Ron Paul
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Last week, GOP chairman Michael Steele came under fire for daring to say what a lot of Americans already know – that our involvement in Afghanistan is an ill-advised quagmire with no end in sight. After nearly 10 years and approaching $1 trillion spent, the conflict is going nowhere because there is [...]
Florida County Helps Illegal Workers Get Paid
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles As states and municipalities across the nation adopt measures to combat a painful illegal immigration crisis, a major U.S. county continues to dedicate public resources to help undocumented workers. Florida’s most populous county, Miami-Dade, is operating a taxpayer-financed program to assist [...]
$410k To Teach Drug Addicts Chinese Meditation
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another reprehensible waste of public resources, the U.S. government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to study the effects of Chinese meditation on drug addicts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services actually gave a Maryland college professor whose research focuses on [...]
Jesse Jackson Jr. Offered $1 Million For Senate Seat
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and his top fundraiser offered to buy President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat for $1 million even though Jackson denies involvement in the pay-to-play scheme at the center of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial. The son of the world-renowned “civil [...]
Journalistic Credibility — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Something caught my attention while browsing news articles on the internet this morning, a story explaining why CNN got rid of a journalist who’d been with them for 20 years because she wrote something on Twitter which was politically incorrect, something which might put her work ethic in a bad light. Imagine that; CNN’s [...]
Most Illegal Aliens Exempt From “Mandatory Detention”
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Although he claims that enforcing immigration laws is vital to national security and public safety, the Assistant Secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) circulated an internal memo ordering officers not to arrest a broad range of illegal aliens he deems immune from “mandatory [...]
Is Obama a Saboteur? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I recently took my mandated continuing education course hours in order to maintain my occupational license as a locksmith in the State of Texas; passed by the way, the world is a safer place knowing that. There were two classes, each four hours worth of credits to adhere to guidelines set up by the Department of Public [...]
Blagojevich Considered Appointing Himself To Senate
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Rod Blagojevich tried to sell President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat but he also considered appointing himself in a worst-case scenario if he didn’t get the right bribe. “I really believe the worst thing Obama wants is me going there,” Blagojevich says in secret FBI recordings played Wednesday [...]
Obama, Emanuel At Center Of Blagojevich Trial
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, were mentioned repeatedly in the corruption trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday, even as the White House desperately tries to put distance between the commander-in-chief and the monstrous political scandal. In its fifth [...]
Blagojevich Considered Oprah For Senator
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles With the confident demeanor of a rock star, disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich strutted into a Chicago federal courthouse for the fifth week of his corruption trial. Sporting a stylish navy blue suit and proudly displaying his trademark brown locks, the dethroned politician winked and waved at [...]
Byrd, Blago, and Barack — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba The long history of the nation is filled with examples of stupid and greedy politicians. The very profession seems to be a magnet for those who are, too often, ill equipped to function well in any other capacity. There are, of course, exceptions. The death of Robert C. Byrd will be concluded with the ceremonies attendant [...]
Chief Who Supports Sanctuary Policies Gets Top ICE Job
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a laughable move, the Obama Administration has appointed a police chief who supports illegal alien sanctuary policies to oversee an immigration enforcement program that requires a partnership between federal and local authorities. The new director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs [...]
Mexico Asks Court To Ban Ariz. Law
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Not only is Arizona’s new immigration control law unconstitutional, it will adversely affect education and labor markets in both Mexico and the U.S., according a federal court brief filed by the Mexican government this week. In the 28-page brief, Mexico asks the court to declare Arizona’s new [...]
Obama’s Panel is Biased — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster in the Gulf has been headlining the news for nearly two months. You might recall an advisory report submitted by oil industry specialists a couple of weeks ago, a report which was altered after it had been signed by the experts . Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put a moratorium on [...]
Defense Documents Show Kagan Defied Law
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Hours after a U.S. Senator revealed that Elena Kagan defied federal law by obstructing military activity during wartime a news report exposed the Supreme Court nominee for repeatedly supporting government secrecy as Obama’s solicitor general. Both revelations are troubling for a Supreme Court [...]
No Budget This Year — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There used to be a picture in my bathroom directly in front of the ‘throne’; a chance to ponder old sayings while taking care of important business. “Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life”, was on the first line as I recall followed by twenty or thirty classic one liners. The picture vanished some time back; [...]
Just Say No to Elena Kagan — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The next Supreme Court Justice will be picked by Obama, that’s a foregone conclusion; but does it have to be Elena Kagan? The qualification process in times past has proven to be nothing more than a dog and pony show. Something which should act as a red flag of warning would be the way the Obama administration has prevented [...]
Henry Lamb — The Most Dangerous President in History
By Henry Lamb Obama believes in the rule of law – his law. No other law is relevant. No other law matters. When Obama speaks, he expects the world to obey. In his Tuesday night performance, he said “I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and [...]
Federal Agencies Block Congressional Probes
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama and his cabinet love to brag about the administration’s unprecedented transparency, but the reality is that numerous government agencies keep denying the investigative arm of Congress access to information essential to probes that help weed out corruption. Among the key federal [...]
U.S. Park Visitors Warned Of Mexican Smuggling Violence
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In yet another solid argument for securing the southern border, American families planning to visit national parks this summer are being warned of the iminent danger created by Mexican drug and immigrant smugglers. The violence is so severe that the federal government has posted strongly-worded [...]
Judicial Watch Files Complaint with Office of Special Counsel
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Alleges White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina Violated the Hatch Act by Using Their Positions to Influence Federal Elections Contact Information: Press Office 202-646-5172, ext 305 Washington, DC -- June 16, 2010 Judicial Watch, the nonpartisan public [...]
International Laws Help U.S. Enemies In War
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a disturbing revelation made this week by a top military commander, international law is preventing U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan from launching creative and usually nonviolent operations that weaken the enemy. Commonly known as “deception operations,” the secret plans often succeed in [...]
Obama Asks America to Commit Suicide
By Alan Caruba President Obama is one of the most articulate we have had in that office. His ability to deliver a speech or a short talk such as his first from the Oval Office Tuesday evening is impressive. He knows how to deliver an address. What he doesn’t know or doesn’t care about is the difference between the truth and a [...]
Deputy Atty. Gen. Nominee Defended Saudi Terrorist
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s nominee to be second-in-command at the Justice Department represented the Saudi royals who helped finance the 2001 terrorist attacks and raked in millions of dollars to “monitor” a collapsed insurance company that got a massive government bailout. Furthermore, the president’s [...]
Pelosi’s Office Costs Taxpayers More Than 18k Monthly
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In the midst of her state’s dire financial crisis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved her district office to a new state-of-the-art building with an award-winning “green” design at quadruple the monthly rent of the old location. That means taxpayers in the (not so) Golden State will dish out [...]
