When you have an intelligence tool like the CIA, you would hope that it would be focused on the collection of intelligence for the purposes of national security. I don't think that is too much to ask. Do you? Well apparently there are political operatives with a different idea in mind. The Obama administration announced just two days ago that the
CIA is using some of its resources to track climate change. Yes, climate change. We can't track Islamic terrorists and suicide bombers ... and now The Community Organizer wants the CIA to track global warming.
Meanwhile ... in our quest to make Americans safer, here are a few more things we've learned:
- Less than one percent of the people the U.S. government has designated as "known or suspected terrorists" had been put on the "No Fly" list that the Department of Homeland Security uses to screen air travelers.
- " ... perhaps the biggest change Obama has made [in terrorism policy] is what one former adviser calls the "mood music" -- choice of language, outreach to Muslims, rhetorical fidelity to the rule of law and a shift in tone from the all-or-nothing days of the Bush administration."
- The Homeland Security Department's National Operations Center (NOC) is "unable" to do its job of ensuring coordination among the 22 federal agencies that make up the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and focuses too much on disaster management rather than terrorism prevention, according to its own inspector general.
In the Democrat plans to take over our healthcare system,
the IRS will be given unprecedented new powers. For instance .. you will have to provide proof on your tax return every year that you have health insurance. Your tax return will expand to contain information on your health insurance status. What next? What other wonderful powers will the government grant to these IRS agents? Is this really the direction in which we should be going? We have government licenses to arrange flowers or babysit. In some states you need a license from the government to be able to tell someone whether or not their drapes match with their sofa. So ... why not a license to prepare taxes? The Democrats are set on giving the IRS even more power. Within the next few years, it will no longer be legal to have your taxes prepared by someone
who isn't licensed by the government.
A US appeals court says that
Gitmo suspects may be detained indefinitely so long as the government can show their ties to Al Qaeda or the Taliban.
Here's an excellent bit of research from the Heritage Foundation ...
Why Government Spending Does Not Stimulate Economic Growth: Answering the Critics.
What about Obama's next stimulus plan? Or as he presented it, a "jobs plan"?
It is sure to be just as ineffective as his last stimulus plans which relied on government spending on infrastructure.
The Pentagon released a report yesterday showing that even more terrorists than we originally though who were released from Gitmo return to terrorism.
The underwear bomber faces six charges for his attempt to blow up a Northwest flight on Christmas Day. I'm sure this news has struck fear into the hearts of jihadists around the world.
You'll enjoy this sound montage of Obama promising eight different times while on the campaign trail to televise the healthcare debates.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced
tougher restrictions on oil drilling.
Finally a decent use of our tax dollars ...
$25 million in stimulus money will be used to buy and install full body scanners in airports this year. I guess even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in a while.
Here is an explanation of how Congress
tinkered with tax withholding tables for 2010 to essentially get a bigger loan from the taxpayers upfront.
Here's an example of the free market working its magic, while government insists on wasting your tax dollars.
It is beyond me why a town would feel the need to
ban yellow ribbons honoring soldiers.
The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam.
I'll give you one guess as to why ... race.
The census still includes the word "negro" and
some people have a problem with this.
The Holocaust museum shooter has
died in a prison hospital. One less goon we have to support with our tax dollars.