About: Brian Koenig
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Lawmakers Compromise Over Transportation, Student Loans Bill
Battling over a transportation bill that now also addresses student-loan interest rates, congressional lawmakers are scrambling to appease their constituents in a legislative boondoggle littered with election-year politics. Aimed...
Chinese Father Disappears After Protesting Wife’s Forced Abortion
The man whose wife fell victim to the Chinese government’s strict one-child policy has gone missing after he posted photographs online of his wife and their aborted baby. Government...
D.C. Court Rules in Favor of EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Following the three-year anniversary on which the U.S. House passed a national cap-and-trade system that would have limited greenhouse gas emissions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the...
The $80B Food Stamp Program: Where’s the Money Going?
American taxpayers dole out $80 billion every year to subsidize food stamps for the poor, but are unsure of where and how their hard-earned dollars are being spent. Ranging...
Obama Admin. Uses Prison Labor to Advance “Green” Agenda
The Obama administration is utilizing the U.S. prison system to help bolster its green-energy agenda, while boosting foreign companies and funneling cash into the hands of Obama’s largest campaign...
Report: $4.2M in Fraudulent Medicare Claims for ED Treatment Devices
Federal auditors recently issued a report charging a Kansas-based medical manufacturer with potentially paying out more than $4 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for “male vacuum erection systems,” more...
Allen West Blasts DOJ For Meddling in Florida Voter Purge
Responding to an uproar over Florida’s plan to purge its voter rolls, Allen West claimed the effort is not an attempt to target minorities, as Democrats and liberal groups...
Shell Oil Chief: Obama, Industry Have “Very Stressed Relationship”
Shell Oil Company’s chief U.S. official congratulated the White House for accepting the “strategic importance” of oil resources off the Alaskan coast, but asserted that overall tensions between President...
EPA Proposes Stricter New Standards for Soot Pollution
Adding to the Obama administration’s mounting heap of regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Friday new air quality standards to curb the purportedly fatal repercussions of soot emissions....
Joy Behar Says She’d “Like to See” Mitt Romney’s House Burn
TV co-host of ABC’s The View, Joy Behar, blasted Mitt Romney for ridiculing Obama’s “private sector” comment, saying she would “like to see his house burn.” By Brian Koenig ...
Donahoe: U.S. Postal Service Will “Look Like Greece” Without Restructuring
In response to depleted revenues and high labor costs, the head of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) asserted Tuesday that the cash-strapped mail agency has become a little like...
Congress Asks DOJ to Investigate “SWAT-ing” on Conservative Bloggers
In efforts to intimidate and suppress the speech of prominent conservative bloggers, opponents are implementing a decade-old technique called “SWAT-ing,” which involves prank callers phoning law-enforcement authorities and reporting...
Federal Employment Far Exceeds Private-Sector Job Growth
President Obama’s assertion last Friday that “the private sector is doing fine” has drawn heated criticism from his opponents, as media outlets and the Romney campaign have pounced at...
New 3D Google Maps Service Poses Privacy Concerns
Adding to its revolutionary navigation service, Google is planning to release a new version of the Google Maps program, offering users a 3D aerial-mapping technology that provides details capable...
NASA Terminates X-ray Telescope Project Amid Rising Costs
In terminating the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS) project, an X-ray telescope mission that was launched to study black holes and various space-time theories, NASA has left...