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• The Government wants its Share of Airline Fees

  
  Flight Wisdom — Authority: 125
  Image via WikipediaOn Friday, the New York Times reported that Congress is starting to take a look at the fact that airlines have been increasingly charging for a variety of services from the checking of luggage to preferential seats. But they aren’t looking at it on behalf of the consumer, they are looking at it ...
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• Worried About Losing Tax Revenue, Congress to Investigate Airlines’ Fees

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The additional fees that irk travelers, for the most part, are not taxed. The government that fair increases in disguise are costing it extra revenue.
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• what would an empowered alberta look like?

  
  daveberta.ca — Authority: 469
  One of my favourite bloggers, David Eaves , has recently published a two - part  series addressing a question raised by the Australian Government’s Web 2.0 Taskforce : "...imagine for a moment it was your job to create the guidelines that will help public servants engage online. Although you have the ...
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• The Wrongdoing of BlackWater and an “Unpaid Adviser” to the Kurds

  
  All Things Whistleblower: A GAP Blog — Authority: 124
  Two new articles are exposing the grosswrongdoings of American contractors and public officials in Iraq. The first article focuses on executives atBlackwater, the defense contractor, whopaid $1 million in bribes to Iraqi officials after their operatives in Iraqshot and killed 17 people in an infamous 2007 ...
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• H1N1 Web clog

  
  Alex @ here has what I know about — Authority: 128
  Health officials in the United States are worried that if there were an Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, millions of people would log on from home, crippling its Internet networks. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal agency, issued a report last week saying that the surge could come from workers ...
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• Yet Another Excuse to Attack the 2nd Amendment

  
  Stand Up For America — Authority: 126
  I know that many of you were expecting that I would be talking about the travesty that occurred Saturday night in the House of Representatives. Fear not, I am going to tackle that, but not tonight. I want to finish reading the bill that passed before I begin commenting on it. I will say I am very disappointed that it ...
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• The False Emotional Appeal of Health Care Reform

  
  Stand Up For America — Authority: 126
  As I monitored the comments to yesterday’s article on the public option, I was saddened to see some of the folks who discussed things fall into the common trap of using an emotional appeal in order to attempt to win a debate. Unfortunately, the entire health care reform debate has become little more than an ...
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• Supreme Court of Canada Departmental Performance Report 2008-2009

  
  Library Boy — Authority: 425
  The federal government today tabled in the House of Commons 92 Departmental Performance Reports on behalf of federal departments and agencies. The 2008-2009 Departmental Performance Report for the Supreme Court of Canada provides an outline of the institutions activities in the last year, covering, among ...
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• Is the BLM practicing unsafe CX?

  
  High Country News - Most Recent — Authority: 580
  The Bureau of Land Management used a large number of "categorical exclusions" to streamline permitting for oil and gas development.
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• Attorney Calls for Formal Investigation of DoD Contract for Study of Portable Lie Detectors

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  In a post almost seven months ago, I reported on a claim that the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a hand-held portable lie detector system made by Lafayette Instrument Company , was never tested for countermeasures before it was deployed to troops in combat zones and that it was the success ...
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• U.S. Government Must Roll Over $3.4 Trillion in Debt Over Next Four Years

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  Its Melbourne Cup day. A few years ago we didnt really believe it was the race that stops a nation. But these days we know better, and the keyboards are mostly silent at our new HQ across the street from the Prince of Wales. Ours, however, clacked away. There are some pretty big issues we left hanging with yesterdays ...
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• The Value of Service, a guest blog by David Molina

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 123
  On April 16, 2006, I was appointed by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski to his Commission on Hispanic Affairs. The Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs is an 11-member public commission dedicated towards building economic, social, political and legal equality for all Oregonian Latinos. Originally founded in 1971 as the ...
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• U.S. May Not Recoup Auto Investments, Report Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  A government report concluded that taxpayers will probably never come close to recouping all of the $67 billion the Treasury loaned G.M. and Chrysler to prevent their collapse.
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• Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  It has been just over one year since the U.S. Army announced that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team was being placed under the direct control of the US Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM), and was being indefinitely reassigned as an “on-call federal response force” for emergencies of all sorts, ...
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• GAO: Full Recoup of Government Investment in GM, Chrysler Unlikely

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  A Government Accountability Office report released Monday is the latest review to cast doubt on the likelihood that taxpayers will fully recoup more than $80 billion invested in the two U.S. automakers.
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• ‘The End of Privacy’ and the Surveillance-Industrial Complex

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  National Public Radio’s All Things Considered ran a series on “ The End of Privacy ” all last week that’s worth a listen. They’re primarily concerned with the ways private companies have access to vast quantities of information about individuals in the digital age—something that civil libertarians have ...
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• Barack Obama Continues Bush Administration Policy Regarding Posse Comitatus

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  It has been just over one year since the U.S. Army announced that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team was being placed under the direct control of the US Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM), and was being indefinitely reassigned as an “on-call federal response force” for emergencies of all sorts, ...
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• Secretary of Labor Solis gets serious about workplace safety with BP

  
  latinopoliticsblog.com — Authority: 123
  Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, one of my (s)heroes, is getting serious about enforcing workplace safety laws. Back in August, she toured a West Virginia coal mine , tweeting her experience. Now she is coming out swinging against the oil industry, as OSHA issued a record $87.4 million fine against BP for safety ...
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• Obama signs the Ryan White AIDS treatment extension act 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington DC, Oct 30 (THAINDIAN NEWS) President Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension act today. The House of Representatives on Wednesday had passed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act by a vote of 408-9, and then sent the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk for his official ...
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