"You can't take a congressman to lunch for $25 and buy him a hamburger or steak…but you can take him to a fundraising lunch and not only buy him that steak, but give him $25,000 extra and call it a fundraiser…same access…same interaction with that congressman," says Abramoff. "So the people who make the reforms [...]
Last night, Senator Paul joined Judge Napolitano on Freedom Watch to discuss the difficulties of getting members of Congress to cut even a few hundred million dollars from the budget (while we continue to run a $1.5 trillion deficit) and briefly talks about reining in the unaccountable Federal Reserve. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3-Q3q5mJw As an aside, S. 202 gained an additional [...]
John Wiener has an interesting piece in The Nation today about the health risks posed by the TSA's privacy-shredding body scanners, and he exposes the truth behind the claim that they're FDA-approved. But the ProPublica investigation showed these reassurances to be misleading at best and in some ways dishonest. The FDA never evaluated the safety [...]
