Senator Tom Coburn

More than seven years after Congress required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish state and local fusion centers to combat international and homegrown terrorist threats, the Department has failed to both measure their performance and effectiveness, or to track the millions of dollars they receive in federal grants, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and highlighted by U.S. Senator Dr. Tom Coburn (R-OK).

Fusion centers are locally-run, multi-agency organizations that facilitate the sharing of information and intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks and crime within the United States. Today, DHS formally recognizes 78 fusion centers throughout the U.S. and its territories.

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Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz,” investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson told the story of CBS executives intentionally hiding a clip from the day after the Benghazi attacks with President Barack Obama to protect and promote his upcoming election.

In Tulsa Today‘s opinion – CBS is thereby disqualified as journalists and should retire from the industry or fire everyone involved in that decision from the top down. Further, any honorable journalist covering CBS news tidbits should include the word “disgraced” to describe the channel’s news. Harsh? Yes, but reasonably suggested to those who proclaim and promote themselves as trustworthy in the delivery of public information.

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Patrick Howley, The Daily Caller Political Reporter, rocks with the captured quote of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber who declared that lack of transparency was a major part of getting Obamacare passed because “the stupidity of the American voter” would have killed the law if more people knew what was in it.

Gruber, an apparently evil MIT professor who served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration during Obamacare’s design, also made clear during a panel quietly captured on video that the individual mandate, which was only upheld by the Supreme Court because it was a tax, was not actually a tax.

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