Congress Must Defend the Budget Caps This Fall
Members of Congress are all back home for their August recess, and all is quiet on Capitol Hill – for now. But don’t be fooled; this is merely the calm…
Obama’s top adviser wants to get rid of the only meaningful spending cuts in years
Here we go again. The White House is, once again, complaining about the sequester. John Podesta, the chief adviser to President Barack Obama, wrote an op-ed at the Washington…
DOE Favorite: We Received An Additional $10 Million – Because of Sequestration
While the administration has been taking a 'sky is falling' approach regarding the effects of the sequestration, one Department of Energy (DOE) contractor has claimed that the financial cuts had…
Sequestration Might Turn White House Chef Into a Spy or Something
It has been a harrowing six weeks for the nation, what with the sequestrapocalyse and all. As of March 1, our underfunded federal government was forced to slash indispensible initiatives…
Sequestration is Still Not a Credible Danger
One would have hoped that after a couple of weeks the overblown brouhaha over the consequences of the sequestration cuts would have died down, but alas, there are those still…
Obama’s Motives After Sequestration Clear – Punish America, Reward Everyone Else
Never before have the sentiments of this 'politics over prosperity' President been more clear than in the aftermath of the sequestration debate. Since the reality of the $85…
More Layoffs For Environmental Project That Received $2 Billion in Stimulus Funds
Despite having received nearly $2 billion in stimulus funding, contractors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation cleanup project in Richland, Wash., have consistently hemorrhaged jobs over the past couple of years…
A Few Good Men
Seven US Marines died and several others were injured when a mortar round exploded in its tube during a training exercise in Nevada on March 18th. The…
The Continuing Resolution and Sequestration
Despite every attempt by congressional Republican leaders to preemptively surrender, the fight to get a sane Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund only the necessary parts of government…
Children As Political Pawns: Sequestration Style
To hear the president tell it, you would have thought the world was going to end the day the sequestration went into effect. When the world actually went on and…