All Lake Forester readers, seniors or not, must become acquainted with Dr. Donald Berwick, the health-care rationing czar whose recess appointment on July 8 elevated him to head of the federal Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs.
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Nancy Thorner in Freedom Pub “Obama Administration Suffers Another Setback at Yucca Mountain”
Another set back happened for the Obama administration. After its moratorium was rejected by a Reagan-appointed judge to halt for six months deep oil drilling in the Gulf, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ruled on Tuesday, June 29, that the Energy Department could not withdraw its application to open a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
No budget update means something's up
The web is aflutter today with speculation about why the Obama administration’s midsummer budget update has not been released. Why would Obama, a self-proclaimed advocate of transparency, fail to inform the American people about what is happening with their tax dollars? Economist Greg Mankiw (whose blog is highly recommended) shows the blatant hypocrisy of this [...]
Executive Transparency
Transparency took center stage in Obama’s first days as President of the United States. His initial actions reveal promising signs that his administration will shine more light into government spending and decision-making. As noted in the Washington Post, Obama said in a FOIA memo, “The Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials [...]