http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ WAR IS PEACE - FREEDOM IS SLAVERY - IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH en-us bdragon@bdragon.com 2007-07-14T19:48:30-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2007/07/14_this_is_ridiculous/index.shtml 572@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ 2007-07-14T19:48:30-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/09/22_spell_it_out/index.shtml A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's billion-dollar-a-year reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted. The government audit is unsparing in its view that the Reading First program... 571@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Intellectuals 2006-09-22T15:23:01-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/09/03_penny_wise_pound_foolish/index.shtml Prosecution of polluters by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency "will be compromised" due to the loss of "timely, correct and accessible" information from the agency's closure of its network of technical libraries, according to an internal memo released today by... 570@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Intellectuals 2006-09-03T10:13:05-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/08/31_crude_propaganda/index.shtml The official who oversees the federal government's broadcasts to foreign countries directed staff to do personal work and used government resources for his private racehorse operation, State Department investigators conclude in a new report. Kenneth Tomlinson, a Bush appointee who... 568@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Cronyism 2006-08-31T00:22:29-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/08/24_awfully_coincidental/index.shtml Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. The omission is inadvertent, said Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, which administers the... 567@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Religion 2006-08-24T13:37:08-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/06/04_fact_from_fiction/index.shtml Dr. Shaber tries hard to separate fact from fiction because, she says, "rumor and hearsay can start to seem real." In the past, she'd sometimes refer patients to government websites and printed fact sheets, or rely on those outlets to... 564@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Sexism 2006-06-04T01:11:15-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/03/10_the_new_plumbers/index.shtml The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources. The efforts include several FBI probes, a polygraph investigation inside the CIA and a warning from the Justice Department that... 562@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Media 2006-03-10T01:32:15-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/03/09_control/index.shtml Continuing to remove a woman's right to make her own decisions, or have control over her own body. A US state has signed into law a bill banning most abortions, in a move aimed to force the US Supreme Court... 561@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Sexism 2006-03-09T21:16:12-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/03/09_tithing_your_taxes/index.shtml President Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security yesterday to create a center for faith-based and community initiatives within 45 days to eliminate regulatory, contracting and programmatic barriers to providing federal funds to religious groups to deliver social services, the... 560@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Religion 2006-03-09T20:59:05-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/02/24_anomaly/index.shtml After investing over $7,000 and waiting nine months for the records, Black Box Voting discovered that the voting machine logs contained approximately 100,000 errors. According to voting machine assignment logs, Palm Beach County used 4,313 machines in the Nov. 2004... 559@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Elections 2006-02-24T10:40:44-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2006/02/17_clean_out/index.shtml [Carol Tombari] was among the disappeared from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, where 31 workers were dismissed seven days after President Bush read the words "addicted to oil" off the teleprompter and announced yet another "Advanced Energy Initiative."... 558@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Intellectuals 2006-02-17T12:46:31-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2005/10/31_perpetuating_poverty/index.shtml Senate proposals to raise the minimum wage were rejected Wednesday, making it unlikely that the lowest allowable wage, $5.15 an hour since 1997, will rise in the foreseeable future.A labor-backed measure by Sen. Edward Kennedy would have raised the minimum... 557@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Corporations 2005-10-31T19:14:41-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2005/10/31_on_the_backs_of_the_poor/index.shtml Republicans ... working to bring you cheap, desperate slave labor. House Republicans voted to cut student loan subsidies, child support enforcement and aid to firms hurt by unfair trade practices as various committees scrambled to piece together $50 billion in... 556@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Corporations 2005-10-31T18:10:51-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2005/10/17_blatant_censorship/index.shtml Who controls what you listen to? Of course, the silver lining in all of this is that "they" must feel threatened somehow (by open discussion of ideas?).... Armed Forces Radio (AFR) is a station that is broadcast to American troops... 555@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Media 2005-10-17T13:50:23-07:00 http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/entries/2005/09/27_faith_charity/index.shtml After weeks of prodding by Republican lawmakers and the American Red Cross, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said yesterday that it will use taxpayer money to reimburse churches and other religious organizations that have opened their doors to provide shelter,... 554@http://www.bdragon.com/ingsoc/ Religion 2005-09-27T12:30:34-07:00