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Four projects in Oregon -- including a $133 million green renovation of the Edith Green/Wendell Wyatt Federal Building -- are a waste of federal stimulus money, according to a Top 100 list put out by Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn.
Obama also called for “mobilizing” remaining money in the financial-system bailout fund to open up more credit to small businesses. The president didn’t give a price tag for the proposals and most of the details would be left to Congress.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., has inserted himself into the middle of the inflamed partisan debate over health care, raising questions among Democrats about his motives, his ego and his fickle allegiance to the Democratic Party, which forgave him after he supported Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for president.
The American general in charge of the Afghan war assured lawmakers Tuesday that an additional 30,000 troops, combined with changes in the overall war strategy, would trigger a demonstrable change on the ground before U.S. forces start to come home in 18 months.
Toots Bommarito can tell you stories about American submarine warfare — the “silent service,” as it was called — in World War II. But if an officer hadn’t refused Bommarito’s pleas to be assigned to the sub he wanted, he wouldn’t be here today to tell them.
If I were smart, I'd never put the words "Sarah" or "Palin" in the same sentence again. by Bill Cope If I were smart, I'd never put the words "Sarah" or "Palin" in the same sentence again. I truly believe her continuing presence in our national awareness is as contrived and ultimately meaningless as John McCain's desperate attempt to invigorate his fizzled-out campaign was when he dropped her in ...
Elliott Broidy, a leading investor in the Israeli economy and major donor and activist in the Los Angeles Jewish community, pleaded guilty on Dec. 3 to the felony charge of rewarding official misconduct, according to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Nearly a million dollars for Arizona's two major universities to study ants made U.S. Sen. John McCain's top 100 list of questionable projects in the federal government's $787 billion stimulus package.
So much for "hope and change." With his address to the nation about Afghanistan, President Obama resembled his disastrous predecessors Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
A proposed $3.4 billion settlement would end a complicated and bitter class-action lawsuit that alleges sloppy bookkeeping by the federal government has robbed Native Americans of more than a century's worth of revenue from uses of their land.
Small business, infrastructure, energy efficiency to be focus -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday presented the broad outlines of a new government effort to spur the creation of jobs, but he left the work of hammering out the specifics to Congress.
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Bishop Charles E. Blake Unveils New Policy Agenda and Challenges Leaders
Facing record job losses and record budget deficits, President Obama proposed a series of steps Tuesday that he said could reduce pink slips and red ink simultaneously.
Collin County has gone “Rogue,” along with much of North Texas. As one of her many stops on her “Going Rogue” book tour, former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin paid Legacy Books a visit Friday morning.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday that he is confident the United States can begin reducing U.S. forces there in July 2011, but military conditions will determine when and how quickly troops will leave.
