With the prospect of a government shutdown looming as Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans battle obstructionist Democrats, I decided to turn back the pages of history and examine the effects of the most-recent government shutdown which began Dec. 16, 1995, and ended Jan. 6, 1996. According to the Congressional Research Service report, “Shutdown of [...]
Report Details Impact of 1995-96 Shutdown (Update)
April 8th, 2011 · No Comments
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Obama Administration Whitewashing Government Inaction Regarding Oil and Natural Gas Leases
March 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments
In advance of President Barack Obama’s energy speech at Georgetown University, a top oil and natural gas industry leader called on the Obama Administration to abandon its policies “to defer, delay and deny access to domestic resources of oil and natural gas.” In a statement to reporters during a media conference call this morning, American [...]
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Forget Need for Energy Security, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s Focuses on ‘Environmental Justice’
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Thanks to a conservative friend who works for the Department of the Interior, I’ve been able to share Interior Secretary Ken Salazar‘s departmental messages — on diversity, a Blacks In Government Training and LGBT Pride Month as well as three anti-drilling messages (July 15, 2010, May 13, 2010 and May 6, 2010) — during the [...]
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Interior Secretary Salazar Cooking Up Diversity
August 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment
If his most-recent memo to “All DOI Employees” is any indication, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar isn’t wasting any time when it comes to tackling the tough issues of the day. In recent months, Salazar sent messages to staff touting bureaucratic growth, promoting deviant sexual behavior and bashing “Big Oil,” just to name a [...]
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Salazar Invites Employees to Attend Blacks In Government National Training Conference
July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar loves to communicate with his employees. Unfortunately, he chooses the strangest topics to cover in his messages to “All DOI Employees.” In recent months, he’s touted bureaucratic growth, promoted deviant sexual behavior and bashed “Big Oil,” just to name a few. His most recent message, sent yesterday via one of his [...]
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Interior Department Promotes LGBT Pride Month (Update)
June 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments
With Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s so busy tackling the BP Deepwater Horizon Response disaster this week as he has for the past five weeks, it appears he has delegated at least one of his propaganda duties to Assistant Secretary Rhea Suh. Today, as shown in the Department of the Interior’s latest e-mail to [...]
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Ken Salazar Photo Caption Contest
May 12th, 2010 · 10 Comments
Instead of boring Americans with the anti-Big Oil content of a joint news release issued today by the Departments of Energy and the Interior, I decided to have some fun with the people who like to say, “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” It’s The Ken Salazar Photo Caption Contest! Use the [...]
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