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The Constitution of the United States established three distinct branches of Government - the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. Our founding fathers, in their wisdom, formed this division of government to establish the principle of separation of powers. This creates an internal system of checks and balances designed to protect citizens from capricious or tyrannical actions of government.

The Executive is a very powerful branch of the government, considering the President s mandate to dictate foreign policy and direct the armed forces as Commander in Chief. His cabinet, the Vice President, and various law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and Department of Treasury, are all an integral part of the Executive Branch.

Understanding Government: The Executive Branch is a fascinating program that analyzes the powers of the President from a legal and historical point of view. Past presidents had differing opinions on executive power; some held very conservative views on its scope of authority, while others held a more liberal stance on the powers granted the president and a few overstepped its bounds. This includes not only Richard Nixon, but also Franklin D. Roosevelt and even Abraham Lincoln. Noted educators and elected officials offer insight on this important facet of American political science.

The Just The FactsTM Learning Series explores United States history in a fast-paced style that makes learning fun!

Special Features:

• Interactive full motion Menus
• Scene Index
• A Teacher s User guide
• The Presidents of the United States
• Multiple- Choice Quiz
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Most thrillers can be judged on their plots, but with The Clearing the plot is only a frame for three excellent performances. The story is driven by the kidnapping of a retired businessman (Robert Redford) by a former disgruntled employee (Willem Dafoe, Shadow of the Vampire). But while half of the movie follows these two men as they wend their way towards a cabin in the woods, the other half observes the businessman's wife (Helen Mirren, the Prime Suspect series) as she copes with both the kidnapping and the secrets it accidentally reveals. Redford and Dafoe play a skillful cat and mouse game as each tries to manipulate the other, but the movie's emotional core is Mirren, a superb actress who turns in yet another rich and layered performance. The emphasis on character heightens the suspense, making The Clearing taut and compelling. --Bret Fetzer

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This film explores The United States federal government, how it maintains a balance of power, and the responsibilities of the three branches of government. Table Of Contents: (1) Meet Your Federal Government (1946) - Scenes from around Washington D.C. and the senate floor are mixed with concise graphics to explain the checks and balances of the US government and the roles of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches - 15 Minutes

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As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust and determination within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. With unparalleled intimacy and detail, this gripping account of a president at war describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008.

The White House launches a secret strategy review that excludes the military. General George Casey, the commander in Iraq, believes that President Bush does not understand the war and eventually concludes he has lost the president's confidence. The Joint Chiefs of Staff also conduct a secret strategy review that goes nowhere. On the verge of revolt, they worry that the military will be blamed for a failure in Iraq.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice strongly opposes a surge of additional U.S. forces and confronts the president, who replies that her suggestions would lead to failure. The president keeps his decision to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from Vice President Dick Cheney until two days before he announces it. A retired Army general uses his high-level contacts to shape decisions about the war, as Bush and Cheney use him to deliver sensitive messages outside the chain of command.

For months, the administration's strategy reviews continue in secret, with no deadline and no hurry, in part because public disclosure would harm Republicans in the November 2006 elections. National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley tells Rice, "We've got to do it under the radar screen because the electoral season is so hot."

The War Within provides an exhaustive account of the struggles of General David Petraeus, who takes over in Iraq during one of the bleakest and most violent periods of the war. It reveals how breakthroughs in military operations and surveillance account for much of the progress as violence in Iraq plummets in the middle of 2007.

Woodward interviewed key players, obtained dozens of never-before-published documents, and had nearly three hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush. The result is a stunning, firsthand history of the years from mid-2006, when the White House realizes the Iraq strategy is not working, through the decision to surge another 30,000 U.S. troops in 2007, and into mid-2008, when the war becomes a fault line in the presidential election.

The War Within addresses head-on questions of leadership, not just in war but in how we are governed and the dangers of unwarranted secrecy.

Author: Bob Woodward
Hardcover:  512 pages
Company: Simon & Schuster  (2008-09-08)
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.

Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before— yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how Cheney operated, why, and what he wrought.

Angler, Gellman’s embargoed and highly explosive book, is a work of careful, concrete, and original reporting backed by hundreds of interviews with close Cheney allies as well as rivals, many speaking candidly on the record for the first time. On the signature issues of war and peace, Angler takes readers behind the scenes as Cheney maneuvers for dominance on what he calls the iron issues from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea to executive supremacy, interrogation of Al Qaeda suspects, and domestic espionage. Gellman explores the behind-the- scenes story of Cheney’s tremendous influence on foreign policy, exposing how he misled the four ranking members of Congress with faulty intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, how he derailed Bush from venturing into Israeli- Palestinian peace talks for nearly five years, and how his policy left North Korea and Iran free to make major advances in their nuclear programs.

Domestically, Gellman details Cheney’s role as “super Chief of Staff ”, enforcer of conservative orthodoxy; gatekeeper of Supreme Court nominees; referee of Cabinet turf; editor of tax and budget laws; and regulator in chief of the administration’s environment policy. We watch as Cheney, the ultimate Washington insider, leverages his influence within the Bush administration in order to implement his policy goals. Gellman’s discoveries will surprise even the most astute students of political science.

Above all, Angler is a study of the inner workings of the Bush administration and the vice president’s central role as the administration’s canniest power player. Gellman exposes the mechanics of Cheney’s largely successful post-September 11 campaign to win unchecked power for the commander in chief, and reflects upon, and perhaps changes, the legacy that Cheney—and the Bush administration as a whole—will leave as they exit office.

Author: Barton Gellman
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With unprecedented candor, one of George W. Bush's closest aides takes readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, and what exactly happened to take it off course.

Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most challenging and contentious periods of recent history. Drawn to Bush by his commitment to compassionate conservatism and strong bipartisan leadership, McClellan served the president for more than seven years, and witnessed day-to-day exactly how the presidency veered off course.

In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, written with no agenda other than to record his experiences and insights for the benefit of history, McClellan provides unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, Washington's bitter partisanship, and two hotly-contested presidential campaigns. He gives readers a candid look into who George W. Bush is and what he believes, and into the personalities, strengths, and liabilities of his top aides. Finally, McClellan looks to the future, exploring the lessons this presidency offers the American people as we prepare to elect a new leader.

Author: Scott McClellan
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6. NASA, the CIA, and the Peace Corps all (2 points) work with disabled students. grew out of the Cold War. are part of the Department of the Interior. require a science background. 7. This is a constitutional power of Congress. (2 points) override pardons mandate line-item veto 8. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is (2 points) a government corporation. an independent agency. part of the Executive Office of the President. a regulatory agency. 9. To release an individual from legal punishment is to (2 points) give a reprieve. serve with an executive order. pardon. give amnesty. 10. This limits the political involvement of federal employees. (2 points) Hatch Act Pendleton Act AmeriCorps liaison officers (more...)

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17. This agency in the Executive Office of the President prepares the national budget every year. (2 points) OMB NSC Council of Economic Advisors EOP 18. This item is an example of presidential judicial power. (2 points) appoint city judges pardon non-federal criminals reduce a person's jail sentence pardon people convicted of state crimes 19. This is needed before the Department of Defense can spend money. (2 points) a popular vote congressional approval an entitlement a special tax 20. Local projects, such as post offices, dams, military bases, and hospitals, are called (2 points) public works bills. caseworking. lobbying. logrolling. 21. What is the OMB and why is it so important? (5 points) (more...)

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6. NASA, the CIA, and the Peace Corps all (2 points) work with disabled students. grew out of the Cold War. are part of the Department of the Interior. require a science background. 7. This is a constitutional power of Congress. (2 points) override pardons mandate line-item veto 8. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is (2 points) a government corporation. an independent agency. part of the Executive Office of the President. a regulatory agency. 9. To release an individual from legal punishment is to (2 points) give a reprieve. serve with an executive order. pardon. give amnesty. 10. This limits the political involvement of federal employees. (2 points) Hatch Act Pendleton Act AmeriCorps liaison officers (more...)

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17. This agency in the Executive Office of the President prepares the national budget every year. (2 points) OMB NSC Council of Economic Advisors EOP 18. This item is an example of presidential judicial power. (2 points) appoint city judges pardon non-federal criminals reduce a person's jail sentence pardon people convicted of state crimes 19. This is needed before the Department of Defense can spend money. (2 points) a popular vote congressional approval an entitlement a special tax 20. Local projects, such as post offices, dams, military bases, and hospitals, are called (2 points) public works bills. caseworking. lobbying. logrolling. 21. What is the OMB and why is it so important? (5 points) (more...)

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Do you believe if employers know these criminals will sue them, do you think it will stop them from hiring illegals? What is your opinion of this illegal allowed to sue and wins? Illegal sues for higher pay ? and wins! Aliens demand companies shell out minimum wage or face state investigation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 06, 2009 9:50 pm Eastern © 2009 WorldNetDaily Outraged at his low pay and uncompensated overtime, an illegal alien in Boston filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general's office against a supermarket ? and won his case. The illegal alien from Guatemala spoke to the Boston Globe anonymously because he feared deportation. "I was just collecting what was rightfully owed to me," he said in Spanish. "They already pay us a miserable amount of money. Why do they have to rob us?" The alien spent years at a Super 88 supermarket seafood counter earning $6 an hour instead of the state's $8 an hour minimum wage. He grew frustrated as the supermarket did not compensate him for his overtime work. One day, he decided to gather his pay stubs into a plastic bag and deliver them to a lawyer ? who turned them over to the state attorney general's office. To his surprise, Super 88 was ordered to provide back pay and fines of $200,000 to more than 300 workers, the Globe reported. Illegal aliens now make up 17 percent of Massachusetts' workers ? twice the state's 1980 workforce. Authorities have expressed concern that employers sometimes exploit illegals because they believe aliens will not report them to state labor authorities. "It's a huge problem," Russ Davis, executive director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, told the Globe. "We really need some major way to address it, and if not, the economy in Massachusetts is going to spiral down into sweatshop conditions." Super 88's owners are said to be Vietnamese immigrants who did were not aware with the state's labor laws. Now they are paying penalties and back wages and are subject to state monitoring. According to the report, Attorney General Martha Coakley has staffed bilingual employees, allowed complaints to be filed in 90 languages and provided logbooks to nonprofit organizations to help illegal aliens track their hours. Now state officials are implementing a no tolerance policy for companies that don't compensate illegals. In November, 764 former workers at a New Bedford factory raided by U.S. immigration agents won an $850,000 settlement. The company was forced to pay overtime wages. In May, C-Mart Supermarket in Chinatown was forced to pay $66,000 for not adhering to state minimum wage. The seafood worker from Super 88, a father of five, said he worked 14 hours every day, six days a week since 2004 at the $6 rate. He said he applied there after his job painting houses for $10 an hour became too hazardous. He was working without a harness and standing on old ladders. "It's like we're worth nothing," he said. "I was worried. But I was also worried about my family because I had to send them money." According to the Globe, the attorney general's office never asks about a worker's citizenship status because officials claim their intention is to enforce state law ? not federal immigration law. Steve Kropper, cochair of Massachusetts Citizens for Immigration Reform, said illegals are not entitled to minimum wage because they are not citizens. "No government resources should be devoted to the rights of people who are here illegally," he said. "They broke the law by being here. They had no right to the job." http://worldnetdaily.com I think it is totally disgusting when he should not have even been employed in the first place!!!! (more...)

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6. NASA, the CIA, and the Peace Corps all (2 points) work with disabled students. grew out of the Cold War. are part of the Department of the Interior. require a science background. 7. This is a constitutional power of Congress. (2 points) override pardons mandate line-item veto 8. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is (2 points) a government corporation. an independent agency. part of the Executive Office of the President. a regulatory agency. 9. To release an individual from legal punishment is to (2 points) give a reprieve. serve with an executive order. pardon. give amnesty. 10. This limits the political involvement of federal employees. (2 points) Hatch Act Pendleton Act AmeriCorps liaison officers (more...)

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So if I get a gubernatorial pardon then I don't have to disclose that ? well, I'm thinking the Military would be the exception? Reference: http://www.sentencingproject.org/tmp/File/Massachusetts.pdf quoting from the reference above "Eligibility: 15 years after conviction or release from prison for felonies, 10 years for misdemeanors. Governor?s Executive Clemency Guidelines (April 22, 2003) at 2 (available from the Massachusetts Parole Board/Advisory Board of Pardons). Federal and out-of-state offenders are ineligible for a gubernatorial pardon." "Effect: Pardon ?eradicates? a conviction. Guidelines, supra, at 1(F). The Governor, upon granting a pardon, orders the records of a state conviction sealed; thereafter, the existence of the conviction is removed for most purposes. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 127, § 152. ?Such sealed records shall not disqualify a person in any examination, appointment or application for employment or other benefit, public or private, including, but not limited to, licenses, credit or housing, nor shall such sealed record be admissible in evidence or used in any way in any court proceeding or hearing before any board, commission or other agency except in imposing sentence in subsequent criminal proceedings? and when a person has subsequently been charged with certain crimes against the person. Id. An applicant may deny the existence of the conviction on an application for employment, or in any other circumstance, and licensing authorities are prohibited from disqualifying the application based on his record. ?The attorney general and the person so pardoned may enforce the provisions of this paragraph by an action commenced in the superior court department of the trial court.? Id." I forgot to add this was a DWI felony.. Btw.. for the people like Sharon. This was 15 years ago. And the only mistake I've made.. please don't be so quick to judge. I'm happily married, own a home, don't drink, drug or even smoke.. I'm just looking to enjoy life - thanks thanks Art.. sadly expungments are no longer done in Mass from what an attorney tells me .. I could have it sealed but I don't think that would be enough (more...)

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source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/gutzman/gutzman18.html The 2003 invasion of Iraq was sold to the public at the time as being justified in part by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein?s possession of weapons of mass destruction and his harboring of al Qaeda terrorists. In the wake of the Bush Administration?s 2003 invasion of Iraq, word leaked out that several prominent figures around Bush long had wanted to invade Iraq; for them, 9/11 was the perfect cover, and the WMD and al Qaeda arguments mere window dressing. By the time the world knew the justifications were false, Iraq had been conquered and Saddam had been removed. President-elect Barack Obama now says that he is going to reverse the current course of the US economy. This contraction, largely the result of the popping of the Fed-induced housing bubble, would come to a natural end in a matter of months anyway. That?s how the market works: if there is a government-induced binge, the fever breaks and the patient can return to health. But the average American has been brought up to believe that good economic times are the results of proper government policy, and that bad times result from its absence. Like some 18th-century physician with a bag full of leaches, knives, glasses, purgatives, and emetics to leach, bleed, burn, and blister a sick man before inducing diarrhea and making him vomit, government hovers over the American economy, eager to make him sick in the name of restoring his health. We have seen the same scenario play out many times in American history. The finest medical care available in America killed poor George Washington in 1799, and the latest economic voodoo caused the recession of 1929 to last a decade and one-half. When finally the government laid off the taxpayer and the business owner in 1945, the US economy boomed. What a remarkable example of statesmanship! The lesson historians drew was that not only was Franklin Roosevelt, the bleeder and blisterer who had stretched the previous recession to seven times the normal length of an American recession, a great statesman, but so was Harry Truman! Barack Obama, it seems, wants to be judged in the same way. His soon-to-be-predecessor, George W. Bush, has emulated Herbert Hoover in responding to the current contraction with a spate of inapt federal measures: nearly $1,000,000,000,000 in handouts of newly-printed dollars to US banks and insurance companies have yielded no discernable result. In fact, federal "oversight" appears to have been totally absent, as the same inept colossi whose institutions tottered on the brink of insolvency before this great looting of the taxpayer now claim not to know where the money went. What to make of this? Why, that more of it is "needed," of course. Thus, $17,000,000,000 was handed over by Bush and his minions to insolvent American automobile manufacturers. No moral, philosophical, or constitutional justification of handing, say, GM ? with a current value of ?$60B (that is, negative sixty billion dollars) ? a few billion was even attempted. No one said how this "loan" would make the great Midwestern dinosaur solvent. Why not? My prognostication? Because it won?t. All this "act of statesmanship" has done is keep GM in business so that GM can demand more money from the government in a few months. And more a few months after that. And more a few months after that. The calculations here are almost entirely those of brute politics. GM is "too big to fail." That is, its unions control so many votes that they, like plains-state senators demanding agricultural subsidies, can twist this gift out of the taxpayer. Comes word now that the steel companies are lining up at the trough. Surely the paleoconservatives will muster the same arguments in their favor as served so well in the case of the Big Three: great countries manufacture their own steel; steel workers are highly paid; some of them were navy SEALs; my sister doesn?t want her husband to lose his job at the steel plant; and (the only one that really matters) if the Republicans don?t join the Democrats in this measure, highly organized and politically mobilized steel workers will vote Democratic forevermore. I predicted that the Big Three would get our money. I predict that other decrepit industries will follow. AIG spent part of its federal gift on lavish retreats for senior executives. Chrysler put some of its taxpayer "loan" into advertising to "thank" taxpayers. This obscenity was rather akin to Stalin "thanking" the kulaks for their land. Barack Obama just announced that he plans to have the federal government resolve the economic problem in part by "modernizing" libraries and offering tax reductions to "workers." The library gambit is all about pork-barrel politics: every substantial community has a library, and so a measure like that will mean a federal expenditure in every congressman?s district. Since the early nineteenth-century days of Henry Clay (Pat Buchanan?s here's the rest of the article: Since the early nineteenth-century days of Henry Clay (Pat Buchanan?s hero), greasing the skids that way has been part of the art of buying votes. No need to explain how expropriating money from its owner to purchase a new rug or computer for a library helps the economy. Barack Obama just announced that he plans to have the federal government resolve the economic problem in part by "modernizing" libraries and offering tax reductions to "workers." The library gambit is all about pork-barrel politics: every substantial community has a library, and so a measure like that will mean a federal expenditure in every congressman?s district. Since the early nineteenth-century days of Henry Clay (Pat Buchanan?s hero), greasing the skids that way has been part of the art of buying votes. No need to explain how expropriating money from its owner to purchase a new rug or computer for a library helps the economy. Tax reductions to "workers," in classic Keynesian analysis, are a wonderful way to address economic contraction because "workers" (that is, unskilled employees) tend to spend a higher proportion of their income than the more affluent. Obama?s conclusion, then, is that America, with virtually the world?s lowest rate of savings, suffers at present from too much savings and too little spending. He wants to reduce the savings rate even further. This is what Keynesianism has given us: gigantic debt and ever-declining savings, despite the fact that everyone knows that societal investment (read: savings) is necessary to heighten the future standard of living. The Clay platform was based chiefly on the idea of "internal improvements," meaning federal financing of roads and bridges throughout the country. Again, if roads were built throughout the country with money provided by the Federal Government, locals would see the wonderful benefit of supporting Henry Clay. Obama understands this perfectly well. Like the Feiths and Abramses, the Cheneys and Wolfowitzes, and like George W. Bush himself wanting war with Iraq and seizing on the first excuse that came to hand, Obama has been handed a perfect cover for doing what he was disposed to do all along. An orgy of public spending outstripping even the super-profligate Bush?s was the desire of the leftward-most senator before the contraction, and he can justify it with economic bunk now. As CNN.com reports, "Economists from across the political spectrum agree that if we don't act swiftly and boldly, we could see a much deeper economic downturn," Obama said. "That's why we need an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan that not only creates jobs in the short-term but spurs economic growth and competitiveness in the long-term." But "economists from across the political spectrum" do not "agree." Keynesians and Chicago School monetarists who slathered credit for the bubble on Allan Greenspan and failed to predict its popping, which they still find inexplicable, agree. Austrian School economists who castigated Greenspan during the bubble, forecast the current contraction, and see worse to come as a result of the government?s response, disagree. Vehemently. But, as one of the Austrians recently said, "Being right is overrated." They are now in the position of the bystander who cannot reach the child in time to push him out of the way of the bus. Obama has adopted Bill Clinton?s tactic of referring to all government spending as "investment," but his taxing and borrowing to pay for wasteful government programs will only make matters worse. The American economy is like big, healthy George Washington that fateful day in 1799. How much quackery will the government inflict? Reduced saving means reduced future standard of living. Heightened government spending means reduced saving. Taking money from the politically weak to give it to the strong is King John?s model of government. And George Bush?s. And Barack Obama?s. In recent days, some paleoconservatives have labeled observations such as these "ideological," people who object to the Big Three Rip-off "ideologues." Was Robin Hood an "ideologue"? Was King John a "statesman"? There is still time for Obama to decide that unlike the second Bush, he is not going to follow King John in taking money from everyone else for the benefit of the well connected. He can still refuse to follow Bush in exploiting others? misery for his own ideological ends. The signs are not promising. (more...)

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A citizen may sue the US Government: a) in any Constitutional court b) Only with congressional approval in claim court. c) In the United States Supreme Court, with or without prior governmental approval. d) Only after their case has been rejected by the Federal appellate courts. e) Only after the president has issued an executive order in support of their case. Please explain so I can understand in the future. Thanks! (more...)

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Shouldn't this make everyone angry or at least a little Pissed? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_secrets http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_bi_ge/executive_bailouts This question is for all Americans. Democrats and Republicans and any Liberal who wishes to answer. Specifically for all who pay taxes. I'm on my way to work (I'm a Federal Express Courier) and I just wanted to know what others think about this. Thumbs up to all who answer. Just give me time to get home and read them. Thanks! (more...)

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