On Nov. 5, 2009, at the behest of Rep. Michele Bachmann, thousands of tea party activists descended on the Capitol to vent their rage over the health care overhaul bill pending before Congress. The assembled activists chanted, "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!" and waved signs opposing a government takeover of health care — but they may not have known that the same government was paying for the event.
Tom Ridge, the first head of the 9/11-inspired Department of Homeland Security, wasn't keen on writing a tell-all. But in The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...and How We Can Be Safe Again, out September 1, Ridge says he wants to shake "public complacency" over security. And to do that, well, he needs to tell all. Especially about the infighting he saw that frustrated his attempts to build a smooth-running department. Among the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.
The Washington D.C cult group exposed. Read a brief excerpt of "The Family" printed in Mother Jones.
*Named in just this 3 page excerpt - Current and/or former followers of The Family:
Senator Sam Brownback (R., Kansas) Representative Joe Pitts (R., Pennsylvania) Senators Jim DeMint of South Carolina Senator Carl Curtis of Nebraska Pete Domenici of New Mexico Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) James Inhofe (R., Oklahoma) Tom Coburn (R., Oklahoma) John Thune (R., South Dakota) Mike Enzi (R., Wyoming) John Ensign Bill Nelson of Florida Mark Pryor of Arkansas Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Virginia) Rep. Zach Wamp (R., Tennessee) Rep. Mike McIntyre, a North Carolina Democrat Herman Talmadge of Georgia Absalom Willis Robertson of Virginia—Pat Robertson's father— Melvin Laird, former Secretary of Defense, William Rehnquis, Supreme Court Justice Charles W. Colson Doug Coe Dennis Bakke, former CEO of AES Rep. Joe Pitts Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Senator David Durenberger James Watt, Reagan's anti-environmental secretary of the interior
In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations have surfaced today in Alaska charging Palin with additional violations of the Alaska Executive Ethics Act.
Zane Henning -- a conservative government watchdog from the governor's hometown of Wasilla and an oilfield worker on Alaska's North Slope -- asserts in a letter to Alaska Attorney General Daniel S. Sullivan that Palin has "been charging and pocketing per diem to live in her home and has used the process for a personal gain since being elected."
Bachmann Playing With House Money : Roll Call News
