The Pentagon’s inspector general said yesterday that the Defense Department’s public affairs office may have “inappropriately” merged public affairs and propaganda operations in 2007 and 2008 when it contracted out $1 million in work for a strategic communications plan for use by the military in collaboration with the State Department. (Read more from www.washingtonpost.com)
Daily Archives: 5 January 2009
The obesity tax – welcome to the nanny state
“and so it begins… the ‘obesity’ tax Sigh,
among a bunch of other budget cuts and tax hikes, Paterson is planning on implementing a 15% tax on non-diet soda– a so-called obesity tax for NY.” (Read more from effect modification)