The city that allowed a councilman to blow $300,000 — that was supposed to fund youth sports — on personal travel and a luxury sports utility vehicle, has now spent federal AIDS prevention money on a strip club built by a drug trafficker in Washington, D.C. The AIDS money — around $330,000 — that helped transform a rundown warehouse into […]
Obama and Holder lie about immigration court statistics, say watchdogs
President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. Department of Justice knowingly distort figures to hide from federal lawmakers, state political leaders, and the American people the rampant corruption in this nation’s immigration court system, according to a Beltway watchdog group. The suspected pervasive corruption allows deportable aliens to evade hearings without consequences and permits more than 1 million […]
Airport snafu: Security easily compromised by terror suspects
"[O]n at least 23 occasions its highly specialized Behavior Detection Officers failed to stop terrorists from boarding planes, investigators found. At least 16 people who were later charged or pleaded guilty to terrorism charges slipped through eight different U.S. airports with SPOT programs, according to the GAO’s findings." "Years after implementing a costly passenger screening […]
In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost
In 1972, after a month of deliberation, Congress launched the nation’s most ambitious experiment in universal health care: a change to the Social Security Act that granted comprehensive coverage under Medicare to virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure, regardless of age or income. It was a supremely hopeful moment. Although the technology to keep […]
Teen Prostitute Ring Sparks Outrage in China
By Bob Chen The underage prostitution ring recently exposed in Xi-Shui County, Guizhou, has sparked nationwide fury. The ring involved several government officials and teachers as its customers and procured young girls, including those from primary school, as prostitutes. The case was first investigated last year when a victim’s mother reported her daughter had been […]
Death by Delay
The news that Justice Mohapatra probing the Kandmahal disturbances in Orissa has said up front that his enquiry would take a year or more even before he has started on the job is disturbing. Of course it is the norm in India for justice to crawl at the pace of a snail and for verdicts […]