It’s difficult to believe that U.S. government officials have taken more than four years after the September 11 attacks to even propose a plan that will secure chemical plants, which are extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. The chemical industry in this country self-regulates 15,000 plants nationwide on a voluntary basis and, according to the Environmental

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If a series of security breeches and fraud are committed at a government-owned nuclear laboratory, what should happen to the group responsible for managing the facility? Most people might say to get rid of it, but United States Government officials have instead rewarded the group, the University of California, a multi-year, $512 million contract to

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Anchorage Daily News reports that the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” would benefit Representative Don Young’s son-in-law, Art Nelson, who is a partner in Point Bluff, LLC. Rep. Young is the politician who has been trying to build the bridge. The “Bridge to Nowhere” was given its name by people appalled at the extravagant uselessness of

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The Associated Press has reported that Senator Max Baucus, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, is donating nearly $19,000 he received from lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s clients to colleges in his state. Though Baucus never received the money directly from Abramoff and has never actually met him, Baucus’ spokesman said, “He thought it was

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As if the country wasn’t already on edge over terrorism and lack of national security, this week hundreds of pounds of powerful explosives have disappeared from a lab in New Mexico. Some media outlets have labeled it the biggest explosives heist in recent history and the scary part is that it isn’t the first time

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Today, Judicial Watch, representing several town of Herndon residents, brought its case against illegal “day laborer sites” before Fairfax County Circuit Court. Lawyers for the town of Herndon argued that the town residents did not have standing to file the lawsuit. William Hurd, the former Virginia solicitor general who argued the case for Judicial Watch,

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From a political standpoint, West Virginia’s Logan County may be tiny (less than 38,000 residents) but Democrats have put it on the map as a hotbed of ongoing political corruption. In the last few years, at least a dozen Democrats have been charged in an ongoing voter fraud scheme, which dates back to the mid

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Some fireworks erupted in court on Tuesday. Lead prosecutor Patrick Collins accused defense attorney Dan Webb of impugning the integrity of prosecutor Levin and FBI agent Ruebenson. Webb suggested, through several thinly veiled references, that Collins and Ruebenson had told a witness what to say in order for the witness to get a better deal

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Should the children of illegal immigrants who are born in the United States get automatic citizenship? The Constitution’s 14th Amendment says yes and every year it happens in thousands of cases in this country. According to a story published nationwide by the newspaper chain Knight-Ridder, a group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives are

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Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) recently revealed that since October, 2004, 51 persons who have crossed into the U.S. illegally were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Those arrested came from countries known to harbor terrorists such as Iran, Iraq and Syria. Here is the press release from December 12 in its entirety: WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Congressman

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