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2:41 California Sen. Adam Schiff (D), who served on the January 6 Committee accusing others of insurrection, backed an insurrection Saturday against federal law enforcement arresting illegal aliens in Los Angeles. Riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers took place Friday and Saturday in Los Angeles, with masked rioters using violence against federal officials and vandalism against federal buildings. President Trump decided to federalize 2,000 California National Guard soldiers, over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom (D), who refused to do much to stop the violence and defended the “immigrants.” Schiff weighed in on X, denouncing the Trump administration...

Even as federal employees' salaries are growing robustly, the president's pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has imposed new limits on executive compensation at AIG, Citigroup, General Motors, and GMAC, all recipients of government bailouts. Salaries will be limited to $500,000 in cash, and bonuses will be tied to "real achievement of objective goals." Chris Edwards at CATO—who has done quite a lot of independent analysis of federal pay—puts this story in context and adds some juicy details from his own data. Most remarkably, there are fully 383,000 federal workers earning six-figure salaries and 22,000 earning salaries of over $170,000. And these...

For most of this country, this recession been a tough one. Chances are If you haven't lost a job you know someone who has. The real unemployment number (including people who are no longer getting unemployment dollars or have given up looking) is over 17%. Many many who have kept their jobs, have lost income either through pay cuts or unpaid furloughs. There is one group of people who have had nothing but good news. People working for the federal government have seen their salaries skyrocket. Not surprisingly, the number of people working for the federal bureaucracy has grown as...

Roughly one month ago President Obama said this at a White House press conference: "So if you come in, and you've got a bad sore throat, or your child has a bad sore throat, or has repeated sore throats. The doctor may look at the reimbursement system, and say to himself, 'You know what, I make a heck of a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.' Now that may be the right thing to do but I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions, just based on whether you really need your kids tonsils out, or...

The Associated Press 2/26/03 7:10 PM GRETNA (AP) -- A uniformed security guard at Armstrong International Airport was arrested on one count of extortion Wednesday after allegedly trying to shake down a man who had a gun in his car. Telita Arnolie, an employee with L&R Security, found a firearm in a man's car while performing a routine vehicle inspection at the airport, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies said. Although officials said that having the gun in the car was not a violation, Arnolie allegedly told the man she'd arrest him if he didn't pay her $40. Chief Deputy Newell Normand...

img src=" http://starbulletin.com/2002/10/09/news/artc.jpg "> KAHULUI >> Travelers waited in lines longer than two football fields to get into the main terminal at Maui's largest airport yesterday as the transition was made from private to federal security officers at passenger checkpoints. Scores of people missed their interisland flights and some missed their flights to the mainland, despite efforts by airlines to push back their schedules and accommodate delays. The lines extended farther than 600 feet close to 1 p.m. but had been reduced to about 105 feet by 4 p.m. The federal Transportation Security Administration said the delay was partially because...

Instead of setting uniform standards for airport security personnel and their training, Congress hurried through a bill that, in effect, federalized security functions at all major airports. So, of course, these new federal workers now think they are in charge and no longer have to answer to anyone about who they bother (or assault) or why. One problem is, usually the very same low paid security workers are on the job as before the new law. There has been no increase in the quality of security personnel or training. Even when the "new" training is available, it will consist of...