"WE ALWAYS WON" and "WE TOOK NO PRISONERS"

Whether it's bridges falling down, leaking levees, or overextended financial institutions, you can always count on one thing. There were plenty of warnings of impending doom but Congress heeded the lobbyist, took their money and for the most part ignored...

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July 14, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (10)

'There Lying on the Ground, Was My Son's Body, Burnt and Smoldering'

Cheryl Harris is a mother. She had three sons, including a set of twins, all serving in the military. On January 8th, 2008, at 9:45pm she got that knock on the door and that visit from a military chaplain and...

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July 11, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

She Was Terminated

The Pentagon loves those pictures of cute Iraqi kids playing sports with American troops and those shots of well stocked, peaceful, Iraqi marketplaces which just a few months ago were far too dangerous to visit. But they hate those pictures...

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July 10, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

"PLEASE, PLEASE HELP ME!!"

It was March 2006 and according to a report put together by investigators working for Democrat Henry Waxman, occupants of Fema trailers were starting to complain. One urgently asked GULF STREAM, the maker of the vast majority of FEMA TRAILERS...

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July 9, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Her Name's Not Oprah Winfrey, It's Ashley Speyer

Philip Rucker wrote an inspirational story in Sunday's WASHINGTON POST about a very remarkable teenager from Washington, D.C., Ashley Speyer. Last year Ashley went to the small village of Moivaro in Tanzania and volunteered in a school there. It was...

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June 30, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

It's Hot Outside, But Inside They're Talking About Cold Winter Nights with No Heat

The forecast calls for 88 degrees and plenty of sun here in Washington today. But inside Senator Kerry's Small Business Committee hearing room the focus will be on sub-zero temperatures, small companies struggling to supply heating oil, and their customers...

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June 25, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

When You Fill Up on Vegetable Oil, Don't Forget to Pay Those Taxes

Every two weeks, Mark Nagurney, who lives in Laurel, Maryland, stops by his local chinese restaurant and picks up several 4.5 gallon plastic jugs filled with used VEGETABLE OIL. He empties them into his 1996 Volkswagon Passat which he overhauled...

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June 23, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (7)

HE SURE IS UNPOPULAR, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO WAR and SPYING, HE GETS WHAT HE WANTS

There must be a holiday coming up! Oh yeah, July 4th. Time for congress to get serious and pass a bill or two. Last night the U.S. House of Representatives gave one of the most unpopular presidents ever, a complete...

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June 20, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (13)

So Far, Not Too Bad

It's not often that you hear Nina Olson, the National Taxpayer Advocate utter these words: "In light of its limited resources I believe the IRS on balance has done an OUTSTANDING JOB...." But that is what she will say when...

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June 19, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

For Dying in Iraq, He Gets a Bill in His Name

His signature was good enough for the army who trained him, put him in a uniform and sent him to Iraq to fight. But when he wanted to become a U.S. citizen, immigration officials wouldn't accept the very same signature...

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June 16, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (12)