The TSA incompetently posts its secrets on the Internet.

What a sad fucking joke the Transportation Security Administration has turned out to be. Not only they do engage in security theater that does little to nothing in preventing actual threats, not only have they removed any desire I might have had to fly anywhere anytime soon, but now they’ve gone and posted their entire . . . → Read More: The TSA incompetently posts its secrets on the Internet.

Defense Department can’t account for $15 billion in tax payer money.

We’re spending trillions on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so you’d think the least the government could do is tell us how that many is being spent. Alas it appears they largely haven’t a clue:

The lack of accountability of the funds, intended for purchases of weapons, vehicles, construction equipment and security services, amounted . . . → Read More: Defense Department can’t account for $15 billion in tax payer money.

$6 billion later the No Child Left Behind reading program doesn’t accomplish jack shit.

No Child Left Behind reading program is failing – Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON—The $6-billion reading program at the center of President Bush’s signature education law has failed to make a difference in how well children understand what they read, according to a study by the program’s own champion, the Department of Education.

Reading First was . . . → Read More: $6 billion later the No Child Left Behind reading program doesn’t accomplish jack shit.

Bush submits record breaking $3 TRILLION budget plan.

Man, it’s a good thing we don’t have a tax-and-spend Democrat in the White House. Who knows what kind of an outrageous budget proposal they’d submit to Congress? Certainly nothing as restrained as what President Bush has submitted:

WASHINGTON – President Bush sent the nation’s first-ever $3 trillion budget proposal to Congress on Monday, contending . . . → Read More: Bush submits record breaking $3 TRILLION budget plan.