A junior republican U.S. Senator from the state of Oklahoma, James Lankford, has released a publication detailing 100 examples of government waste entitled "Federal Fumbles - 100 Ways the Government Dropped the Ball." The publication is filled with truly infuriating examples of government waste that are sure to get your blood boiling.
Here are a couple of our favorites:
After budgeting just $1.1mm for the Wisconsin recount, Jill Stein got a bit of shock yesterday when the Wisconsin Election Commission gave her until 4:30pm today to deliver $3.5 million to fund an expedited recount effort in the state or walk away. Now, according to the Washington Post, Stein has just delivered the required sum which is roughly 54% of the $6.5mm she's raised to date.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted that the reason Turkish troops are inside Syria is to oust the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. He said “We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. We didn’t enter for any other reason,” according to the Hurriyet daily news. Turkish troops entered Syria in August, launching operation Euphrates Shield. Ground troops and air power were deployed to northern parts of the country, with the stated goal of retaking areas held by ISIS.
When Jill Stein was the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. president, the networks only gave her 36 seconds of coverage.
However, as NewsBusters' Mike Ciandella details, as soon as she launched a campaign to contest the presidential election and demand a recount of ballots in several key states, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC managed to find 7 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage for her in just four days.
That's more than 12 times as much coverage as in the entire campaign.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
An article published in The New York Times this past Sunday perfectly demonstrates how out of control and unconstitutional America’s foreign policy has become. It highlights the latest war being perpetrated by the Obama administration, which is expanding with very little scrutiny from the press or the government branch supposedly in charge of waging war, the U.S. Congress.