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Golden Hammer: Multibillion dollar software infrastructure disorganized, wasteful, watchdog says

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

The Stevens Creek Reservoir is parched dry in March in Cupertino, Calif. Lack of seasonal rain meant water shortages for Californians this past winter. The worst water shortages are expected in Western states. Most are already dealing with one of the worst droughts on record, including not just California, but also Nevada, Texas and Oklahoma. (associated press)

Nation could face water shortfall in next decade, watchdog warns

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Recent editorials from Texas newspapers

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Agency mulls managing private refuge development

By BECKY BOHRER - Associated Press

Homeland Security Police Officers keep watch along Pennsylvania Ave. during the Washington, D.C. Emancipation Day parade, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, April 16, 2013. President Abraham Lincoln freed approximately 3,100 slaves in the District of Colombia on April 16, 1862, nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Many federal guards may not be able to read X-ray machines, shoot guns, study finds

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Probe finds scant oversight of chemical plants

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

Rep. Gerry Connolly, Virginia Democrat. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘Redundant’ spending claim on autism research stirs outrage

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Former Secretary of State Colin Powell attends the unveiling of the official portraits of former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

LAMBRO: Unearthing the depth of the VA’s malfeasance

By Donald Lambro

Golden Hammer: Sole-source watches save agency time, not money

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

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Energy Department loan office under scrutiny

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 21, 2012, file photo, with oil pump jacks as a backdrop, President Barack Obama speaks at an oil and gas field on federal lands in Maljamar, N.M. The government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage, congressional investigators say. The report, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, highlights substantial gaps in oversight by the agency that manages oil and gas development on federal and Indian lands. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Fed govt failed to inspect higher risk oil wells

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, downtown Vernal, Utah is shown. State health officials are pledging to look into claims that stillbirths are on the rise in the Eastern Utah community of Vernal, that is home to a boom in gas and oil development. Activists say a climbing rate of neonatal deaths in the Uinta Basin stems from industrial smog. But researchers and health officials aren’t ready to draw such a link. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin, File)

Fed govt failed to inspect higher risk oil wells

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

The American Flag on the hood of President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's motorcade vehicle is seen as they land at the Wall Street Landing Zone in Marine One, Friday, April 11, 2014, in New York, as they travel to the Al Sharpton's National Action Networks 16th Annual Convention. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Despite climate pledge, feds don’t know how much fuel their own vehicles waste

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

The F-16 is one of the Air Force's tactical aircraft. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon paid $150 per gallon for green jet fuel: report

By Lachlan Markay — The Washington Free Beacon

** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 2013, file photo, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sequestration’s toll: One bureaucrat loses job

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Golden Hammer: Troubled VA project behind schedule, over budget

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times