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The losers of the latest budget deal: the FBI, the rural poor, the environment
Both Democrats and Republican leaders celebrated the passage of a short-term budget that averted a government shutdown while blunting some of the worst effects of sequestration. “I am so proud the Senate bill protects national security while meeting compelling human needs. It makes investments in human infrastructure like early childhood education,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.),… Read more »
Obama’s White House: Hostile Work Environment For Reporters
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter says Robert Gibbs sent him a ‘Threatening email’ in 2008 after he wrote an article critical of Barack Obama. “There is a kind of a threatening tone that from time to time, not all the time, but comes out of these guys in this White House, but that doesn’t excuse it…. Read more »
Van Jones and His “Friends” of The Environment.
So in case you were bored enough to wonder, Van Jones has not assisted the carbon cycle yet by assuming room temperature. On 17 February, 2013, we had a confirmed sitting on the Capitol Mall. He was there to frolic in front of an adoring 35,000 person crowd at the “Forward on Climate” March. In… Read more »