The companies that extract natural gas from public lands pay the government, that is to say the taxpayers of America, a fee based on market prices and volumes pumped. Well that’s what’s supposed to happen. Guess what? The Bush Administration has ‘loosened the rules and reduced the auditing’ of the deals the government has with […]

It still doesn’t work. The Justice Department has tried again to justify the administration’s illegal wiretapping program. This time in a forty-two page white paper. This may be a bigger document, but it still depends stongly on the 2001 Congressional authorization. The New York Times has the story here: Administration Lays Out Legal Case for […]