In 2008 Congress created the bipartisan commission on wartime spending. The commission, set to expire the end of next month, was setup to function as a Truman style commission. They have finally released their report and it shows how much waste there actually has been in Iraq and Afghanistan: As much as $60 billion in […]
We hear about it all the time, but there’s a problem. When you have a drought going on then you don’t have the water to cool the reactors. The solution? Shut them down: Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying […]
This shows how deep greed really goes: One Colorado electric cooperative has openly admitted that it has paid $100,000 to a university academic who prides himself on being a global warming skeptic. Intermountain Rural Electric Association is heavily invested in power plants that burn coal, one of the chief sources of greenhouse gasses that scientists […]
Knight Ridder has broken open a story that spans over a couple big scandals. Those scandals are Randy Cunningham and the spying on anti-war activists: A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on […]