Politics Daily http://www.politicsdaily.com Politics Daily http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.politicsdaily.com/media/feedlogo.gif Politics Daily http://www.politicsdaily.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/Growing Unemployment Trumps Stimulus Effortshttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/14/growing-unemployment-trumps-arra-stimulus-efforts/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/14/growing-unemployment-trumps-arra-stimulus-efforts/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/14/growing-unemployment-trumps-arra-stimulus-efforts/#commentsFiled under: ,

Thousands of jobs were created or saved in the past 77 days, Vice President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday in the first quarterly American Recovery and Reinvestment Act progress report. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment increased during that time, continuing at the highest level in a quarter-century.

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-05-14T00:09:00 00:00Palin to Write Blizzard of Words Memoirhttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/13/palin-to-write-blizzard-of-words-memoir/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/13/palin-to-write-blizzard-of-words-memoir/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/13/palin-to-write-blizzard-of-words-memoir/#commentsFiled under: ,

Fractional-term Alaskan governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential also-ran Sarah Palin announced on Tuesday that her first memoir is due to be published by HarperCollins in 2010, which is hilarious.

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-05-13T05:00:00 00:00Eyes Roll Over 'Scare Force One'http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/09/eyes-roll-over-scare-force-one/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/09/eyes-roll-over-scare-force-one/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/09/eyes-roll-over-scare-force-one/#commentsFiled under:

A portion of the "Scare Force One" photograph was clearly altered which, in light of the commotion caused by and the fallout from (see: The Capitolist's Heads Roll Over 'Scare Force One') the staged photo opportunity of April 27, raises the question, why wasn't the image just Photoshopped altogether?

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-05-09T15:09:00 00:00An End To Taxes Misallocated Down The Drainhttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/07/an-end-to-tax-money-misallocated-down-the-drain/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/07/an-end-to-tax-money-misallocated-down-the-drain/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/07/an-end-to-tax-money-misallocated-down-the-drain/#commentsFiled under: , ,

As a supplement to the Obama administration's Fiscal Year 2010 Federal Budget, proposed to Congress in February and made public on Thursday, was the 119-page Terminations, Reductions and Savings report.

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-05-07T23:30:00 00:00Franken Meets with Bidenhttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/06/comedian-who-beat-republican-senator-meets-with-biden/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/06/comedian-who-beat-republican-senator-meets-with-biden/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/06/comedian-who-beat-republican-senator-meets-with-biden/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Democratic presumptive junior Senator from Minnesota Al Franken met with Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, one week after five-term Pennsylvanian Senator Arlen Specter switched his party affiliation while in office from Republican to Democrat.

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-05-06T23:49:00 00:00Men Support Gun Ownership, Oppose Abortionhttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/02/more-american-men-support-gun-ownership-oppose-abortion/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/02/more-american-men-support-gun-ownership-oppose-abortion/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/05/02/more-american-men-support-gun-ownership-oppose-abortion/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Public opinion on gun control and abortion has swayed conservative since a decade ago, particularly in the past year, despite-and possibly in response to-the recent election of the second Democratic president in three decades.

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-05-02T15:09:00 00:00Former Pirate Hostage Proposes Protection for Crews, Cargohttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/30/former-pirate-hostage-proposes-protection-for-crews-cargo/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/30/former-pirate-hostage-proposes-protection-for-crews-cargo/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/30/former-pirate-hostage-proposes-protection-for-crews-cargo/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Recent pirate hostage Captain Richard Phillips proposed a piracy deterrence policy to Congress on Thursday: why don't merchant vessels have a few armed personnel aboard so that pirates can't just sail up and take whatever they want without any resistance?

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-04-30T23:20:00 00:00State Department's 100-Day Report Misses Markhttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/29/the-state-departments-100-day-report-misses-the-mark/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/29/the-state-departments-100-day-report-misses-the-mark/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/29/the-state-departments-100-day-report-misses-the-mark/#commentsFiled under: , ,

Among other Cabinet departments joining Wednesday's Obama administration benchmarking, the U.S. Department of State published their 100-Day Report, listing its accomplishments to date. There are, however, several discrepancies between the report and recent history.

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-04-29T23:54:00 00:00U.S. Cabinet to Eliminate Dozens of Government Programshttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/19/u-s-cabinet-to-eliminate-dozens-of-government-programs/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/19/u-s-cabinet-to-eliminate-dozens-of-government-programs/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/19/u-s-cabinet-to-eliminate-dozens-of-government-programs/#commentsFiled under:

President Barack Obama announced an initiative to reduce "wasteful" government spending in his weekly address on Saturday.

"Billions are squandered on programs that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a lobbyist or interest group," Obama said.

An agenda topic at Monday's first full Cabinet meeting will be budget cut proposals from each federal department and agency.

In his Saturday address, Obama named two specific budget cuts recently made: firstly, the Department of Homeland Security is no longer spending $3 million on logo updates. The DHS was created less than 7 years ago and the reason that the logo needed a $3 million update so soon remains to be seen.

The second budget cut is the saving of an estimated "hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending and cost overruns" in the Department of Defense. According to the DoD's FY 2008 Agency Financial Report, the Department's available resources were $1.1 trillion, which primarily consisted of $736.4 billion in appropriations. The net cost of operations was $676 billion. A possible budget cut is no longer appropriating $736.4 billion to tally $1.1 trillion in resources when net operating costs are only $676 billion.

Obama pledged to announce "the elimination of dozens of government programs shown to be wasteful or ineffective. In this effort, there will be no sacred cows, and no pet projects."

 

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]]>Adam Kirchner2009-04-19T13:53:00 00:00Obama Announces $13 Billion Train Projecthttp://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/17/obama-announces-13-billion-train-project/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/17/obama-announces-13-billion-train-project/http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/04/17/obama-announces-13-billion-train-project/#commentsFiled under:

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced a $13 billion high-speed American rail transit development project on Thursday.

The transportation project will be funded by an initial down payment of $8 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds and an additional $1 billion per year for five years, beginning with the 2010 budget.

Ten regional rail systems have been identified for the project: the California Corridor, the Pacific Northwest Corridor, the South Central Corridor, the Gulf Coast Corridor, the Chicago Hub Network, the Florida Corridor, the Southeast Corridor, the Keystone Corridor, the Empire Corridor and the Northern New England Corridor.

Amtrak, the passenger rail system founded in 1971, operates with revenue below expenses and receives an annually increasing federal subsidy reaching $6.3 million for fiscal year 2013, as mandated in the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008.

Additionally, Amtrak received $1.3 billion of the 2009 ARRA funds.

 

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