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  • Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel

    Joel Gehrke

    Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing...

  • Another lawsuit filed for EPA official’s private emails

    Joel Gehrke

    Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013

    Yet another Environmental Protection Agency official used his private email account to conduct government business, according to a lawsuit from the watchdog that has recently exposed similar transparency violations at the agency. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a lawsuit to see...

  • Cruz pushes back at 2016 rumors, but asks for campaign money

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, poured cold water on a report that he’s interested in running for president in 2016 today, but his Senate campaign aides sent out a fundraising appeal to grassroots supporters. “In my short tenure, my focus has been — and will remain — on two things: fighting...

  • White House keeps distance from FDA’s Plan B decision

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    President Obama had nothing to do with the Federal Drug Administration’s decision to sell Plan B as an over-the-counter drug to women aged 15 and older, his spokesman told reporters. “This is a decision that the FDA made and that is appropriate because it is an independent agency,” White...

  • Vitter: Former EPA boss posed as her own assistant in ‘Richard Windsor’ emails

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

    Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said today that former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson used her “Richard Windsor” alias email account to pose as her own assistant when dealing with outside groups, adding that she also used the account to correspond with White House...

  • Issa: Obama ‘aids those’ who are intimidating Benghazi whistle-blowers

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., accused President Obama of “aid[ing] those in his Administration who are intimidating” potential Benghazi whistle-blowers, because Obama pleaded ignorance when asked about the issue today. “Even if the...

  • California lawsuit would relieve nonunion teachers of paying dues

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    Ten teachers and the Christian Educators Association International are suing to block a California law requiring teachers to pay union dues even if they aren’t union members, a lawsuit that could potentially weaken some of the most powerful unions in the state. The Center for Individual...


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