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Archive for January, 2017

Government Postal Union Cuts Convenience for Consumers


Friday January 6th, 2017   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 3:19pm PST   •   1 Comment

Customers of Staples Inc. have been enjoying the conveniences of in-store postal services but as Bloomberg reports, that will soon come to an end. The cancellation is a “coup for the Postal Service’s largest union,” the American Postal Workers Union, which fought Staples’ merger with Office Depot and urged customers to boycott the company….
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A Chance to Shut Down the Pentagon’s Slush Fund


Friday January 6th, 2017   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 6:52am PST   •   0 Comments

President-elect Donald Trump has selected South Carolina Representative Mick Mulvaney to be the next director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Mulvaney is an interesting choice for the job, which given many of the public positions that he has taken over the years with respect to wasteful spending in Washington…
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The Coastal Commission’s High Tide of Waste


Tuesday January 3rd, 2017   •   Posted by K. Lloyd Billingsley at 9:17am PST   •   0 Comments

“We are not now in deficit, we were never in deficit and we won’t be in deficit at the end of the year.” That was Susan Hansch, chief deputy director of the California Coastal Commission last August, explaining that the CCC had received almost enough money to repay $1.45 million from the state Department of Finance. According…
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The Obama-Iran Ransom Plane


Tuesday January 3rd, 2017   •   Posted by Craig Eyermann at 6:00am PST   •   2 Comments

Sometime shortly before January 17, 2016, after the Obama administration had withdrawn roughly $400 billion of U.S. taxpayer money from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Settlement Fund account at the U.S. Treasury, it transferred the withdrawn funds electronically overseas to U.S. accounts at the Swiss National Bank in Geneva, Switzerland. On January 17, 2016,…
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