Showing posts with label Federal Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federal Government. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Yet another Calif. city rebels against sanctuary city law. Will this rebellion elect more Republicans in California?



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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Across the nation, there are 20-week abortion prohibitions in 18 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute













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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Announcement: The California Federation of Republican Women (CFRW) endorses the Federal government’s actions being taken against California regarding sanctuary laws which are unconstitutional and illegal

[Approved by the CFRW President, Nam-Yong Horn and CFRW Executive Board and Board of Directors.]

CFRW members throughout the state are in a great position to go to their City Councils and County Supervisors and to speak out to take action against sanctuary status, to speak out in favor of supporting the Federal Government on this critical issue. If you have any questions, please contact me (CFRW President, Nam-Yong Horn) direct at 951-757-9351
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Department of Justice sues California over "sanctuary" status





















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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Feds give California $3.9 million to encourage low-income people to shop at local farmers markets

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Privacy advocates startled...





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Friday, April 29, 2016

Both the federal government and Minnesota’s state government will assess so-called “death taxes” or estate taxes on Prince’s assets, taking away more than half his estate.

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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Federal agencies are increasingly using informal guidance documents, memoranda and blog posts to create rules and skirt the formal regulatory process, and Congress must stop them.



The federal government has no complete survey on the use of what CEI calls “regulatory dark matter.” The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) only reviewed 14 out of “thousands” of documents created by federal officials in 2014, CEI said.

But agencies are increasingly using these informal documents to create official regulations with consequences, like recent U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) guidance claiming landlords and home sellers who don’t rent or sell to convicted criminals are violating the Fair Housing Act.

These guidance documents are “purportedly not legally binding,” but they still “cajole and intimidate” people and businesses into complying with the agency, CEI said. Most new rules never reach the attention of the media or Congress....

“President Obama has been deservedly criticized for unilateral executive actions that are dreadnoughts of rule-without-congress,” CEI said. “But federal agency guidance documents, memoranda and other regulatory dark matter swell ominously, often out of sight.”
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

How much of your money did the Federal Government spend to study online dating?



Take the Quiz.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016

These eight federal agencies are the worst. Here's how to fix them.

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Friday, February 19, 2016

Government spends billions on public relations firms to promote itself.



More than $4.3 billion in taxpayer money has been spent on public relations since 2007, according to Open the Books.

About half of that money goes to private-sector PR firms.

One global PR firm, Ketchum, charges the federal government $88 an hour for the work of an intern.

It's not alone. Other firms are billing more than $40, $50 and $60 an hour for interns

“What we found was, quite frankly, stunning,” Andrzejewski said.

...From travel warnings and health updates about the Zika virus, to the Department of Homeland Security's "See something, say something" anti-terrorism campaign, to Smokey Bear, Stier said public affairs officers are a vital part of government.

“There are a lot of ways in which, if the government doesn’t do a good job of putting information out in an interesting way, then the public won’t really understand it,” Stier said.

Of the 10 government agencies that spend the most on public affairs, none would agree to an on-camera interview, although several sent written statements.
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Government data hack could affect as many as 18 million people





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Saturday, June 13, 2015

When Does a Hack Become an Act of War?



































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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Obama admin asserts dominion over creeks, streams, wetlands, ditches — even big puddles









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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Oyster Farmer: ‘We Are Terrified’ Of The Gov’t

◼ The National Park Service used falsified data to shut down an 80-year-old oyster company in Point Reyes, Calif, its owner claims.

Drakes Bay Oyster Company operated in Point Reyes for decades until National Park Service officials used falsified data to force Kevin Lunny’s family-run oyster farm to shut down. The experience has left its mark on Lunny: “We Are Terrified,” he told lawmakers during a hearing Thursday.

“Let me be clear, we did not fail as a business,” Lunny said in his prepared testimony. “This was not bad luck. Rather, the Park Service engaged in a taxpayer-funded enterprise of corruption to run our small business out of Point Reyes.”

Lunny made this statement in response to a question by Republican Rep. Raul Labrador asking whether or not Lunny felt like there could be consequences from his testimony against the National Parks Service.

Even Democratic California Rep. Jared Huffman admitted that in the rush to get rid of industry from Point Reyes, government officials and environmentalists “overstated” evidence that Lunny’s farm was harming the environment.
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Friday, April 24, 2015

OBAMA EDUCATION SECRETARY: Parents Who Opt Out Of Common Core Are Racist, And the “Feds Will Step In” If Opt Out Continues



◼ OBAMA EDUCATION SECRETARY: Parents Who Opt Out of Common Core are Racists

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a veiled threat to the parents and students who choose to opt out of Common Core testing – The Feds “have an obligation to step in.”
Federal law, under No Child Left Behind, requires 95 percent of students in a state to take the annual standardized tests in reading and math from grades 3-8. It is a requirement which until now has never needed enforcement or consideration.

With as many as 184,000 students in New York choosing to opt out, the 95 percent threshold will not only be in jeopardy, it will be an easily missed mark.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

New rules on narcotic painkillers cause grief for veterans and VA

◼ The DEA restrictions, adopted to curb opioid abuse, mean many vets have to make more appointments with an already overburdened VA - Washington Post

New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat everything from missing limbs to post-traumatic stress.

The restrictions, adopted last summer by the Drug Enforcement Administration to curb a national epidemic of opioid abuse, are for the first time, in effect, forcing veterans to return to the doctor every month to renew their medication, although many were already struggling to get appointments at overburdened VA health facilities. And even if patients can get appointments, the new rules pose an additional hardship for many who live a good distance from the health centers.

While the tighter regulation applies to everyone on opioid painkillers, it’s hitting veterans especially hard because so many are being treated for horrific injuries sustained during the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and have become dependent on the VA’s beleaguered health-care system for medical care.
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Attkisson: White House Using Tax Dollars for Studio-Grade ‘Pure Propaganda’



◼ "Your tax dollars may kick in for the cost of their hairstylists, makeup artists and wardrobe consultants." - Nicholas Ballasy/PJMedia

Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson said the Obama administration has been producing its own video content to promote “unfiltered” messages with taxpayer-funded staff, including hairstylists, makeup artists and wardrobe consultants.

By cutting out the news media, Attkisson said the White House has figured out how to avoid questions and accountability. She also revealed that the Department of Agriculture has more than 1,200 “media relations employees” nationwide.

“White House officials have exploited non-news media to spoon-feed unfiltered messaging, at times pure propaganda, into the public’s mouth. The Google-sponsored chat I mentioned – that came with a pre-selected audience and questions submitted in advance by the White House’s own YouTube channel – that’s the way they like it,” Attkisson, the author of Stonewalled, said during a speech at Hillsdale College. “They generate their own content, rely on surrogates to help spread partisan blogs, Twitter and Facebook, give lots of interviews to entertainment programs, digital media and feature press.”

Attkisson said the federal government has adopted many public affairs strategies used by large corporations, except the government is using public funds to “advance its propaganda.”

“One way they do it is by self-producing videos and building their very own television production facilities where the upper echelon give interviews and speeches, controlling everything from content to lighting,” she said.

According to Attkisson, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) use millions of taxpayer dollars to expand or create their own television studios. Attkisson said the FDA has a studio that can fit a live audience of 100 people and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has a studio with Hitachi high-definition cameras and LCD-based teleprompters. KEEP READING





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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Richard Blum, husband of California senator Dianne Feinstein pockets $1 billion in USPS real estate deal.

◼ Senator's husband stands to profit from government deal - Richard Johnson/Page Six/New York Post

Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich?

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it’s done.

The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively — and the real estate company of the California senator’s husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions.

Blum’s company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn’t notice that Blum is a member of CBRE’s board and served as chairman from 2001 to 2014.

This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein’s office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Bay Area bids adieu to Drakes Bay Oyster Co. at Point Reyes Station

◼ Marin residents Saturday savored one final meal of oysters harvested from Drakes Estero near Inverness as part of a Cajun celebration honoring the recently closed Drakes Bay Oyster Co. - Silicon Valley/Megan Hansen, The Marin Independent Journal

Kevin Lunny, owner of the Drakes Bay Oyster Co., was ordered by the federal government to shut down his business at the end of 2014 after a two-year legal battle to keep it open that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hundreds of supporters of Lunny's operation met to honor the oyster farm's decade of business with a Cajun potluck at Point Reyes Station's Green Barn at 540 Mesa Road.

...The Drakes Bay closure order came on Nov. 29, 2012, when then-Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced he would allow a 40-year lease -- originally negotiated with the Johnson Oyster Co. in 1972 and taken on by Drakes Bay -- to expire. In 1972, the federal government bought the land from Johnson for $79,200 and provided the lease to operate within the Point Reyes National Seashore.
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