Posts Tagged ‘corruption’
Rep. Quayle Calls for Holder’s “Immediate Resignation”
CORRUPTION, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA This week, Representative Ben Quayle (R-AZ) became the 57th member of Congress to call for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder over the Fast and Furious scandal. In a statement, Rep. Quayle said: "Fast and Furious was a fundamentally flawed operation. Since its implementation, U.S. Border Patrol [...]
Govt. Agency Celebrates Rise In Public Assistance In 2011
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES In its annual report to Congress the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) brags of an increase in the amount of public assistance it distributes and that it’s leading a “cultural transformation to increase diversity, inclusion and accessibility.” The bloated agency also boasts of its work on [...]
Judicial Watch: Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2011
LIBERTY ALERTS, JUDICIAL WATCH (Washington, DC) -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes: Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL); Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV); [...]
Running the USA into the Ground
By Alan Caruba I needed a mattress cover so I went over to the local dollar store today and discovered they have them in every size but twin. I returned home. I went online to Bed, Bath and beyond. With a few keystrokes I not only had the exact item I wanted, I also received an email confirmation of the sale and a notice that once shipped, I [...]
Gingrich Credits Freddie/Fannie For Stable Housing Finance System
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Weeks after a global news agency revealed Newt Gingrich made upwards of $1.5 million as a Freddie Mac consultant, interesting information continues to surface exposing the former House Speaker’s tight relationship with the scandal-plagued, government-sponsored mortgage giant that triggered the nation’s [...]
Antoin Rezko Gets 10 Years In Jail
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles President Obama’s close friend and longtime financial supporter, Chicago businessman Antoin Rezko, has been sentenced to 10 ½ years in prison for operating a massive corruption scheme in which he extorted millions of dollars in kickbacks from investment firms seeking state business. For years Rezko [...]
Peter Pan’s Green Cake was Poisoned — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, I remember watching the movie Peter Pan as a young boy and feeling physically ill at the thought of Peter eating the poisoned green cake which had been placed where the Lost Boys would find it. The shape of the green cake has changed over the years; now it’s disguised as green energy. The poison introduced in [...]
Chicago Style Politics — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Corruption seems to work its way into the conversation when the Obama administration gets involved; after all, it’s the Chicago way of doing things. Fast and Furious is a bomb waiting to explode on the White House lawn depending on how far knowledge of the illegal operation went up the chain of command. There are [...]
American Jobs Act and Raccoons — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, President Obama’s jobs speech wasn’t much different than rhetoric used to bilk American tax payers on stimulus packages before. Obama said, “Let’s pass this jobs bill right away”, even though it hasn’t been written or presented to Congress as yet. This morning I recognized the similarities to something [...]
Progressive’s Perfect Storm Against God — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, You may recall a movie made not too long ago, The Perfect Storm, in which weather systems combined making for a devastating mix. We are witnessing the makings of a different kind of “perfect storm”, one brought about by years of pain staking efforts by progressives; call them what you will, these folks are the [...]
Need a set of lungs, make that to go… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Life has a way of imitating fiction from time to time. There’s a story by Jessica Ryen Doyle on the Fox News website out of Belgium that should make your skin crawl, Doctors euthanizing patients to obtain transplant organs . ‘“Given that half of all euthanasia cases in Belgium are involuntary, it must be only a [...]
WH Praises as ‘Global Leader’ Gabonese President Accused of Corruption
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The White House justified President Obama’s decision Thursday to host in the Oval Office an African leader facing a low-level revolt at home and accused of serious corruption, on the basis of reforms he has introduced and his voting record at the United Nations. The small Central African [...]
Who can doubt now? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Our grand daughter was over the other day to get help putting her "build a bear" together. She's five years old and had a chance to sew with her "Memaw". When the project was completed she went around showing off her new "Teddy" bear. While cleaning up I was about to toss the empty container in the trash when a piece [...]
New Word – “Frauder” — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Politics sets the tone for lots of things; take for instance the moniker placed on folks trying to prove 9/11 was staged by our own government; wahla…Truthers; a bunch of whackos. Mention the name, Truthers, and automatically folks start shaking their heads, feeling uncomfortable for being near anyone who might be [...]
We Started Out a Christian Nation — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, My goodness; but my last article, Mother Earth Rights - A Rose by Any Other Name , set off a firestorm of controversy. My Facebook account went off like a Roman Candle trying to “set me straight” for having expressed my summation of historical facts. Here’s what got some folks upset, enough to waggle a finger in [...]
U.S. Gives Obama Donor $500 Mil For “Green” Projects
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles One of President Obama’s top fundraisers has been rewarded with more than half a billion dollars in stimulus money for “green” projects and a coveted adviser position at the federal agency that regulates his highly profitable business ventures. It’s the very cycle of money, influence and [...]
Home Repairs with Ben Bernanke — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There are several “Home Improvement” shows on the HGTV channel, House Hunter, Get it Sold, Color Splash or Holmes on Homes; my wife watches most of them. One you may not have heard about, Home Repairs with Ben Bernanke; you got it, head of the Fed himself, has worked out an arrangement for a remodeling show. I’m getting [...]
Harry Reid: We Will Pass House GOP Two-Week Spending Bill
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate will pass the two-week continuing resolution sent to it by the House of Representatives “in the next 48 hours,” citing the lack of controversial amendments that Reid said had doomed the long-term plan passed by the House on Feb. 19. Reid, [...]
Many Are Called… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I just completed reading a book written back in 1967 by H. Verlan Andersen, Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen. A quick read, only 83 pages from cover to cover; about the amount of time it takes to watch the movie Avatar or Titanic. Don’t let the title fool you, it’s not just for scripture thumpers; this book is a [...]
U.S. help in Fighting Drug Cartels Is ‘Notoriously Insufficient’
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Mexican President Felipe Calderón said his administration’s war against drug cartels is impeded by “notoriously insufficient” cooperation from the U.S. “I found cooperation in this matter with both President Bush and President Obama, but obviously the cooperation ends up being notoriously [...]
County Health Dept. Issues Ecstasy Guidelines
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In an unbelievable story, tax dollars in the nation’s most populous county are being wasted on a campaign to advise youngsters how to take a potentially lethal illicit drug without overdosing. The endorsement of a federally banned substance by a local government agency was exposed this week by a local [...]
Calif. Agencies Refuse To Disclose Public Salaries
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In the aftermath of a huge corruption scandal in a tiny city, California’s controller is working to make public the taxpayer-funded salaries of all state employees but dozens of government agencies refuse to provide figures. Of the state’s 900 local government agencies more than 172 have flipped the [...]
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Liberty Alerts, Congress Shall Make No Law Over at ACSblog, Ohio State law professor Dan Tokaji argues that it’s time for campaign finance “reformers” to proclaim proudly that “equality,” rather than “corruption,” is the reason they favor restricting political speech: Acceptance of equality as a rationale won't make hard [...]
Computers and Wallets — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Have you ever noticed how similar wallets and computers are? If you've been carrying around a wallet for any time it becomes part of you; you know how it feels and where every thing is located without having to think about it. The same holds true for computers; they become familiar to a certain extent. Our desk top computer "blew [...]
Congress May Finally Cut U.N. Funding
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles It seemed as if the day would never come, but U.S. lawmakers are finally working to slash the billions of taxpayer dollars sent annually to the famously corrupt and severely managed United Nations. As the U.N.’s top donor, Uncle Sam has for years provided a huge chunk of its operating budget and [...]
Africa, the Awful Continent
By Alan Caruba As long as I can remember, for seventy-plus years I have seen photos of sick and starving African children. Now that Africa is home to seventy percent of the world’s cases of AIDS that image applies as well to too many of its adult population. As far as I can tell, it is an awful continent. That is a vast generalization, [...]
Texas Needs Brown Shoes Fighting EPA — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The EPA is intent on taking over Texas’ permitting authority as the new year brings about significant mandates to power plants and larger industrial complexes according to an article posted on Fuel Fix blog by Matthew Tresaugue. Texas has refused to go along with EPA mandates based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]
Feds Sue N.Y. For Millions In Medicaid Fraud
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles A year after a congressional audit exposed exorbitant fraud and abuse in the federal government’s insurance program for the poor, the Justice Department is suing New York City for cheating it out of tens of millions of dollars in the last decade. Corruption in the Medicaid program is nothing new but the [...]
Govt. Spends $1 Mil So Illegal Border Crossers Don’t Drown
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a reprehensible waste of taxpayer funds, a government agency is spending more than $1 million to install floating devices along a canal where hundreds of illegal immigrants have drowned trying to sneak into the United States. The costly project was inspired by pressure from the mainstream media, which [...]
Taxpayers Finance Pelosi’s Lavish Hawaiian Farewell
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Reminiscent of the scandal in which she used military aircraft as her personal taxi, Nancy Pelosi stuck it to U.S. taxpayers on her way out as House Speaker with a lavish Hawaiian vacation featuring secret service and local police motorcades financed by Americans. The famously corrupt California [...]
New House Watchdog Lets Obama Slide On “Criminal Event”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles During a public relations campaign touting upcoming probes of the Obama Administration, the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said the president won’t be investigated for a bribery scandal because his party is guilty of the same crime. This astounding example of [...]
Sacred Cows and 911 First Responders Bill — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Congress recently passed the “James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act”, otherwise known as the 911 First Responders Bill. The AP article on the Fox News website mentioned how some Republicans originally tried to block the bill but eventually gave in to the $ 4.2 Billion compensation package. Obama signed it while on [...]
Senate Ethics Committee Will Not Punish Sen Dodd
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that on December 20, 2010, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics (commonly known as the Senate Ethics Committee) dismissed a Judicial Watch ethics complaint filed against outgoing Senator [...]
Various Glories of the Resurrection
Old World Witness For Christ There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of [...]
As long as grass is green and the sky is blue… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a line in the movie, Little Big Man , which sums up how government keeps promises. The movie’s message had to do with our Federal government’s treaties with the Indians as spoken by Little Big Man, a white man adopted by the Human Beings, “This land was promised to the Indians for as long as grass grows green and [...]
Obama’s EPA Goes After Coal Fired Energy — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Do you remember Obama’s pledge back in 2008 when he was running for the Oval Office, a pledge to bankrupt the coal industry? At the time he threatened to make it too expensive to operate coal fired electrical plants via Cap & Trade legislation mandates in order to force Americans into “green” forms of energy [...]
Get Your Stimulus Check Yet? China Firm May Get $450 Million
American Gumbo with Diane Alden More money and stuff for the Chinese and its coming from the Democrats ... I am surprised ...so surprised ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz __________________________ Wind at their backs: Powerful Democrats help Chinese energy firm chase stimulus money www.msnbc.msn.com Top Democratic lobbyists are behind a [...]
Stop the Presses – Music to my Ears — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The hills are alive with the sound of music, silence. Printing presses which have been diluting our money supply with an additional billion dollars in hundred dollar bills had to be shut down and at least a third of the hundred dollar bills printed will have to be destroyed because they printed improperly. That means our [...]
It Must Needs Be an Infinit Atonement
American Scripture Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement—save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to [...]
Freed Gitmo Inmates “Reengage” In Terrorism
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Two years after the Pentagon revealed that many Guantanamo detainees rejoin terrorist missions after leaving the military prison, President Obama’s National Intelligence Director confirms that one in four resume terrorist activities against the United States after being released. As the president [...]
Send in the Clowns — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Maybe elephants dropped a load on Main Street as Ringling Brothers came to town; while that isn’t the case, don’t take your brown shoes off just yet. Here in Houston, Texas, Harris County District (Activist) Judge Kevin Fine will hold hearings on the constitutionality of the capital punishment prior to a murder trial in [...]
State Fund May Have To Pay For Abortion Malpractice
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a blow to Louisiana’s effort to restrict abortions, a federal appellate court has ruled that a state-run medical malpractice fund may have to cover negligence claims against doctors who perform the life-ending procedures even though it’s forbidden by state law. The case involves two physicians [...]
EPA Celebrates 40th With “Environmental Movement”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The scandal-plagued federal agency that recently launched a multi million-dollar “environmental justice” movement to help minority communities get green is celebrating its 40th birthday this week with a national tour to advance more of its costly leftwing programs. Four decades after it was created [...]
Biden Says Stimulus Fraud At “Surprisingly Low Level”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In yet another delusional assessment of the administration’s disastrous stimulus program Vice President Joe Biden claims that fraud and abuse has been kept “to a surprisingly low level” thanks to rigorous oversight. The laughable estimate comes just a few months after Biden made a fool of himself [...]
Governor’s 2nd Term To Focus On Helping Illegal Immigrants
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The newly reelected governor who created a special council to help illegal immigrants integrate into society promises to spend his second term pushing for measures to benefit undocumented aliens in his state. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, former Clinton Administration official, assured open [...]
Military To Monitor “Self-Radicalized” Personnel
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In an earth-shattering revelation, a Defense Department investigation into the Ft. Hood massacre has concluded that U.S. military facilities must protect from internal threats and better monitor “self-radicalized” enlisted personnel. The in-depth probe also warns that protection measures focused solely [...]
Sanctuary City May Recognize Mexican IDs
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As local governments across the U.S. find ways to battle illegal immigration, a North Carolina city is working to help undocumented aliens by becoming the nation’s first to accept an easily forged Mexican card as a legal form of identification. The controversial “Matricula Consular” cards have been [...]
Five Month Cover Up? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Imagine my surprise this morning while reading the latest AP story by Dina Cappiello, White House tweaked drilling report . What’s interesting about it; Fox ran this story ran back in June and it was referenced on at least one blog . It took the Associated Press five months to break this headline story. I think there’s an [...]
Border Patrol “Emotional Violence” Against Illegal Aliens
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles An amusing study conducted by a highly-regarded public university has determined that the U.S. Border Patrol is committing “emotional violence” against illegal immigrants. The research project at the University of Arizona focuses on drugs and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border. After interviewing [...]
Political DNA? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There have been a couple of articles recently which claim to validate the theory that individuals are predisposed toward either conservative or liberal mindsets according to their DNA. Jeremy A. Kaplan wrote a piece entitled, Researchers Find the ‘Liberal Gene’ , which appeared on the Fox News website. “A new study has [...]
