Related Blog Posts

Billions in earmarks inflate defense bill's cost

12 hours ago ago from Newsalert

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The Department of Defense didn't ask for money to update the old officers club in San Francisco's Presidio into a visitors information center and exhibition space. Neither did any other member of Congress - except House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her $5 million earmark request for the Presidio Heritage Center was approved by the Senate on Saturday as part of the $626 billion defense appropriations bill, the ...

Related content

Assistant Professor in Horticultural Economics (Florida, USA)

2 hours ago ago from http://www.ishs.org/jobs

This is a 12-month tenure-accruing position that will be 60% research and 40%, located at the Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Florida.    Duties will include conducting research in horticultural economics and developing an extension (outreach) program for clientele in the commercial nursery and landscape industries. The incumbent will be expected to work closely ...

Related content

More Government Waste And Obama's Impotency To Stop It

19 hours ago ago from Love My Country, Loathe My Government

I promise that this will be the last post for a while regarding government's wasteful spending and the American political class that feeds it. These types of reviews of wasted taxpayer dollars can get very depressing. Today's examples come from the Heritage Foundation's website ( www.heritage.org ) as they and others comb through the latest budget bills to find truly remarkable wastes of money. After reviewing what they have found, I will ...

Related content

Pork in the name of National defense

15 hours ago ago from Western Representation

It's going to be a great Christmas for donors to Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Defense Appropriation Committee. His earmarks included in the $636 billion 2009 Defense Appropriations Bill includes giveaways totaling $132 million for his campaign contributors. The University of Southern Mississippi donated $10,000. Return on investment: $10.8 million. Raytheon Corp. officials contributed $10,000. Return on ...

Related content

TWO BITS: Rainey sticking around, basketball falls

5 hours ago ago from ONLY GATORS Get Out Alive

Posted by Adam Silverstein | Posted in Basketball , Football | December 21, 2009 1 » Amid speculation that he was considering entry into the 2010 NFL Draft , Florida Gators redshirt sophomore running back Chris Rainey told the Orlando Sentinel that he will stay in Gainesville, FL, for at least another year. With Rainey, sophomore Jeff Demps and redshirt junior transfer Emmanuel Moody all coming back next season , the Gators' running back ...

Related content

Related News

Nothing to see... move along.

Related Videos

Nothing to see... move along.