Boehner: No One Reads GOP Platform
Amid all the cheers and jeers for the 2012 Republican Party platform, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) let slip the truth about that document: He hasn’t read it, and he doesn’t...
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U.S. Funds Israeli Missile Defense But Can’t Get the Technology
The United States has spent over $200 million on a highly effective missile defense system and plans to spend nearly $700 million more on it — yet U.S. troops in the...
Former Marine Held in Psychiatric Hospital Over Facebook Posts Questioning Govt.
Former Marine Brandon Raub has been detained and committed to a psychiatric hospital because of Facebook posts mainly questioning the federal government. ...
Under ObamaCare, 15-Year-Olds May Get Free Sterilizations Without Parental Consent
Girls as young as 15 could be sterilized at no cost and without their parents' consent under ObamaCare and Oregon state law, sparking concerns about mass sterilization and population control. ...
Food Freedom Fighters Organize Lemonade Freedom Day
Selling lemonade, raw milk, or any other comestible is not a crime. That is the message of the second annual Lemonade Freedom Day. The event, to be held at the U.S....
Auto Bailout Now Forecast to Lose $25 Billion — and Counting
At a recent campaign appearance President Barack Obama touted the alleged success of the federal government’s bailout of the automobile industry, saying it saved “more than one million jobs.” But while...
Chicago Medical Examiner Won’t Release Autopsy of Victim of Botched Abortion
What is the Chicago medical examiner’s office trying to hide with regard to the death of a young woman following a botched abortion? Pro-life group Operation Rescue, with the assistance of...
Obama Allows Aid to Countries Using Child Soldiers
It is hardly news that the U.S. government routinely doles out aid to tyrannical regimes around the world. Less well known is the fact that many of those regimes recruit or...
After Six Years of RomneyCare, Mass. Imposes Healthcare Price Controls
As surely as night follows day, one government intervention begets another. In Massachusetts, the 2006 healthcare reform law signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney forced every Bay Stater to buy health insurance...
Louisiana Teachers’ Union Threatens Private Schools in State School Choice Program
The Louisiana state teachers' union sent letters to private schools participating in the state's school choice program threatening them with lawsuits if they do not withdraw from the program while the...
After Soda, Bloomberg Sets His Sights on Baby Formula
First he tried to take super-sized sodas out of the mouths of adults. Now New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to take formula out of the mouths of babies. The New...
Pro-life Legal Group to FBI: Stop Your “Gestapo Tactics” Against Abortion Protestors
A pro-life legal foundation, defending an abortion protestor who received a threatening visit from the FBI, is putting the agency on notice that the foundation will fight its "witch hunt" of...
Facing Extinction at Bureaucrats’ Hands, Desk Toy Maker Fights Back
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is trying to force Buckyballs desk toys off the market over safety concerns, but the manufacturer is fighting back. ...
Feds Sue Telecom for Fighting Warrantless Search
The Justice Department is suing a telecommunications company for challenging a request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for customer information — despite the fact that the law authorizing the request...
LOST Will Not Be Ratified This Year, DeMint Says
The Obama administration’s push for Senate ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) in 2012 appears to have been stymied by Republican opposition. According to the Daily Caller, 34...