June 19, 2013

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Agriculture Department to study how climate change affects cows

By Examiner Watchdog Staff | 05/20/13 04:45 PM

When the Government Accountability Office released its 2013 list of "high-risk areas," it was no surprise that climate-change was listed at the top, as President Obama has been adamant about fighting climate change. So it also came as no surprise that, despite the federal government's massive...
GSA broke personnel rules with peer awards, IG reports

By Kelly Cohen | 05/17/13 04:45 PM

Officials giving bonus awards to General Services Administration senior executives between 2009 and 2011 violated multiple federal personnel rules and guidelines, according to the agency's Inspector-General. Among the violations described in the 21-page report made public yesterday were those...
Judicial Watch sues Secret Service for Obama Hawaii vacation documents

By Examiner Watchdog Staff | 05/16/13 12:20 PM

Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service over the agency's failure to provide records on the use of government funds for the Obama family vacation in Honolulu earlier this year. Judicial Watch is an independent conservative non-profit group...
HHS IG racks up more Medicare fraud convictions

By Examiner Watchdog Staff | 05/10/13 06:30 AM

Conspirators in four Miami health care fraud schemes pled guilty or were sentenced this week for scamming Medicare for between $13.3. million and $74 million dollars. * A home health care administrator pled guilty on Wednesday to her role in a $74 million kickback scheme. Myriam Acevedo and...

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Frack to the Future

By: Michael Warren

Williston, N.D.
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Downsize Ike

By: Andrew Ferguson

The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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The Lesson of Kermit Gosnell

By: John McCormack

What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.
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