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"Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human Services “Special Office of Inspector General Agents” being trained by the Army’s Special Forces contractors? The Department of Veterans Affairs arming 3,700 employees?

The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history. Over the last 20 years, the number of these federal officers with arrest-and-firearm authority has nearly tripled to over 200,000 today, from 74,500 in 1996.

What exactly is the Obama administration up to?"

-Tom Coburn and Adam Andrzejewski

Nancy Peslosi Can't Find Anything to Cut in Federal Budget

Really? Sen. Tom Coburn found 100

Among them:

++ $1.5 Billion+: Annual cost of maintaining government properties that are not longer needed or used.

++ $65 Million: Funds taken from federal emergency relief provided to the state governments of New York and New Jersey in the wake of Hurricane Sandy that was diverted to pay for tourism-related television ads.

++ $390,000: NASA grant to produce a series of YouTube videos starring the “Green Ninja,” who motivates school children to take action on climate change.

++ $384,989: National Science Foundation funding for a study of the oddities of the duck penis. A key finding of the study was the organ’s unique corkscrew shape.

The US is losing its preeminence in space exploration and NASA is making green weinie You Tube videos? Sheesh!