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Don't take my word for it, though-here's how Black Lives Matter ties into what the left calls "environmental justice." Another activist on the Mall, Dominque Hazzard, a member of the Black Youth Project 100, said, "The Black Lives Matter and the Climate and Justice movements are totally connected because, around the world, climate change is disproportionately impacting people of color and the working class. "The movement is about ending state sanctioned violence against black people," Hazzard said.

From an extra day's hotel stay so military officials can fit in a round of golf to federal workers who fly business class instead of coach, questionable travel expenditures have remained a persistent problem across the federal government in recent years. At the State Department, for instance, nearly 80 percent of the more than $300,000 in airfare reviewed at one little-known office in fiscal 2007 and 2008 went to pay for business-class airline tickets, and many of those purchases violated federal travel policy. One senior manager at the National Science Foundation took or extended taxpayer-funded trips totaling more than $10,000...