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Thursday January 15, 2009
From Robert Longley, Your Guide to U.S. Gov Info / Resources
Let’s hope President-elect Obama’s new Chief Performance Officer, the person who will be eliminating waste in government programs, gets a chance to read this sequestered government report on detecting, reducing and prosecuting fraud in the federal purchasing process.
Dated June 9, 2008, but never published by its creators, the...
Thursday January 15, 2009
From Kathy Gill, Your Guide to U.S. Politics: Current Events
As the end of his second term draws near, we Americans seem to be thinking more kindly towards President George W. Bush. As the chart to the right shows, our satisfaction with his job performance has suffered a slow but steady decline since re-election four years ago.
According to the latest...
Thursday January 15, 2009
From Charles Montaldo, Your Guide to Crime / Punishment
A 25-year-old ex-convict has been arrested after a car chase in Texas in connection with the strangling deaths of an Oklahoma woman and her four children. Joshua Steven Durcho was arrested near Waco after his car collided with a guardrail and a tree after police tried to stop what...