Fear of Climate Change Falling Precipitously
The results of a recent survey conducted by the Gallup organization reveal that Americans and Europeans have much more to worry about (statism? crushing national debt?) than climate change. ...
About: Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Posts by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Challenge to President Obama’s Eligibility to be Heard by 9th Circuit Court
Arguments in one of the lawsuits challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President of the United States has finally worked its way through the California court system and will be heard...
Death Panels By Any Other Name Are Still as Fatal
The issue of death panels will not go away. In a story published recently by The New American, it was revealed that in his budget proposal, President Obama all but explicitly...
Tennessee May Ban Teaching of Homosexuality in Elementary School
Last week, the Senate Education Committee of the State Senate of Tennessee passed a bill that forbids public school elementary and middle school teachers from “furnishing any materials on human sexuality...
Michele Bachmann Dismisses Birth Certificate Issue
Tea Party darling Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently stated that she was satisfied with President Obama’s certificate of live birth. During an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopolous, Rep. Bachmann declared...
What Does It Mean To Be a “Natural Born Citizen”?
Thanks to Donald Trump and his billion-dollar-network bully pulpit, the issue of President Obama’s birthplace (and the related issue of why he’s never released a long-form birth certificate) is not going...
Michigan State Police Reportedly Extracting Personal Info From Cellphones
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is questioning the Michigan State Police's use of cellphone "extraction" devices. Specifically, the group claims that law enforcement is clandestinely using portable...
British Paper Reports: Big Oil Companies Encouraged Invasion of Iraq
In Great Britain, in the days prior to the invasion of Iraq, government ministers and oil industry executives spoke about how best to exploit the rich oil reserves in that country,...
Days Before His Death, JFK Asked CIA About UFOs
According to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, in the days just prior to his assassination, President John F. Kennedy asked the CIA to provide him with classified...
Obama Budget Announcement Endorses Death Panels
It is said of hurricanes that the danger is less the wind, and more the debris blown about by it. Last Wednesday when President Obama addressed the nation to announce the...
Congress Considers Bill to Extend Immigration Rights to Homosexual Couples
Late last week Democrats in the House of Representatives reintroduced a measure that would dramatically change current immigration law and provide immigration rights to same-sex couples that are equal to those...
Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and State Sovereignty
What a dreadful Spirit that Man possesses, who can put a private Appetite in balance against the universal Good of his Country, and of Mankind. -- Cato As tensions with England...
Obama and Senate Rewriting Article II
On March 30, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y., picture, left) and 15 co-sponsors (including Republican leaders) introduced S. 679, the “Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act.” The measure would remove the “advice...
Tea Party Activists Boiling Over Budget Compromise
“A go-along, get-along Republican” who “doesn’t have stomach for a fight.” Those were the words used by Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips to describe Speaker of the House John Boehner...
California Bill Would Mandate Teaching of LGBT Contributions
The California state legislature is considering a measure that would force social studies teachers to recognize the contributions to society made by “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans.” ...