Where's the separation of church and state when you need it? According to Nancy Pelosi, there may be no such concept, since government offices have "biblical power to cure" illnesses. Pelosi made this remark while responding to the budget cuts proposed by Republicans in Congress that include the NIH, as CNS News reports today:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said the House Republicans' proposed cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget would hurt biomedical research's "biblical power to cure."
Pelosi, speaking at a press conference on Capitol Hill celebrating the first anniversary of the health care bill's passage, said, "There's a cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health. This is not a healthy thing for our country because that research has answers. You know that every family in America is one telephone call, one diagnosis, one accident away from needing the kind of biomedical research that can cure--really have the biblical power to cure in a very, very special way and so to cut back on that research is wrong."
Riiiiiiight. Now she gets religion. Can we hit her with a wooden cluebat?
Federal auditors found the agency erred in its cost comparisons, and a skeptical lawmaker said TSA did so to stop the use of private contractors to do screening -- an option Congress wrote into the 2001 law that created the agency.
Sixteen airports throughout the country use private screeners under the Security Partnership Program (SPP), but TSA has barred other airports from joining the program.
In a letter to Congress released Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said TSA's new estimates show that private screeners are just 3 percent more expensive than federal workers - not 17 percent, as the agency previously had stated.
Auditors said that earlier TSA estimates had not accounted for the costs of workers compensation, liability insurance, retirement benefits and administrative overhead involved in using federal employees
"TSA cooked the books to try to eliminate the federal-private screening program," said Rep. John L. Mica, Florida Republican and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. "GAO found that TSAignored critical data relating to costs."
Mr. Mica said the revised 3 percent cost difference is likely still too high because it does not take into account "the full cost of TSA's bloated and unnecessary bureaucratic overhead."....
Five airports recently have applied to join the SPP but have been denied by TSA officials, Mr. Mica said.
In January, TSA Administrator John Pistole announced those applications were being refused and that no other airports would be allowed to participate in SPP unless they could demonstrate a "clear and substantial advantage" in doing so.
Mr. Mica said his staff will continue to investigate the "distortion and misstatement of facts used in the denial of each of these five airports' participation in the federal-private screening program." Cooking the books for more power and control while pushing to unionize so we have less choice and more government control of our lives. Our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
The belief that Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a victim of anti-Muslim bigotry was never based in reality. It was manufactured by the Left as a rhetorical prop, exploited as a bludgeon against people who want to talk seriously about terrorism. If Hamdani was singled out for his faith, it would appear he was singled out for especially high honors. Most 9/11 victims were not half so celebrated as he was. Rather than suffering from apocryphal American anti-Muslim bigotry, Salman Hamdani appears to have benefited from Americas eager inclusiveness.
Americans have long seen Mohammed Salman Hamdani as a hero. Too bad Representative Ellison saw him only as a prop.
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The guy should get a Raspberry or Rotten Tomato Award for really bad acting. It is Rep. Keith bin-El-lison who comes across as a phony. The Jesse Jackson of the muslim world; your basic islamaphobia baiting hustler. He shows up at every function to sell his snake oil.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Where's the separation of church and state when you need it? According to Nancy Pelosi, there may be no such concept, since government offices have "biblical power to cure" illnesses. Pelosi made this remark while responding to the budget cuts proposed by Republicans in Congress that include the NIH, as CNS News reports today:
Federal auditors found the agency erred in its cost comparisons, and a skeptical lawmaker said TSA did so to stop the use of private contractors to do screening -- an option Congress wrote into the 2001 law that created the agency.
