Ben Bernanke’s Worst Nightmare: Chairman Ron Paul
In the 111th Congress Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) introduced legislation to perform a wide-ranging audit of the Federal Reserve. That bill was, in Paul’s words, “gutted” before it came to the...
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CIA Agents Involved in Peru Homicide of American Woman and Baby Given “Slap on the Wrist”
On April 20, 2001, the War on Drugs claimed the lives of an American missionary to Peru and her baby daughter when Peruvian jets, working with the CIA, gunned down the...
Pledging Allegiance to ObamaCare Repeal
“They passed it without even reading it. But we’ve read it now. And it’s even worse than we thought.” ...
The Vast Wasteland of Michelle Obama’s “Food Desert” Program
As part of her “Let’s Move!” campaign against childhood obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama proposes to “invest $400 million a year to provide innovative financing to develop healthy food retailers to...
Senate GOP Leaders Look to Water Down Tea Party Ideology
“You might as well know right now … that the Tea Party, no matter how successful it is at the polls in November, will certainly betray the party of liberty,” wrote...
Barney Frank Takes Money From TARP Banks After Denial
"I won't take any PAC money from banks that took TARP funds, nor would I take it from the top executive," Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services...
Iran Sends Bagsful of Cash to Karzai
U.S. taxpayers, it seems, are not the only ones being taken for a ride by Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The New York Times reported on October 23 that Iranian taxpayers, too,...
When Unemployment Pays Better Than Employment
Back in June, Republican Senate candidates Sharron Angle of Nevada and Rand Paul of Kentucky endured criticism from the mainstream media for their comments suggesting that government-run unemployment insurance was, perhaps,...
Uncle Sams Costly Sign Language
In uncertain economic times, Americans are looking for signs of improvement. The U.S. government, by contrast, is looking for improvement of signs -- street signs, that is. ...
GOP Senator: “Restructure” ObamaCare Instead of Repealing It
Republicans are hoping to ride a wave of anti-Democrat, and specifically anti-ObamaCare, sentiment into control of at least one chamber of Congress. Not one Republican voted for ObamaCare, and the GOP...
Weathering the Stimulus Storm of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Another day, another government program mired in the traditional triumvirate of waste, fraud, and abuse. Today's example: the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance Program, funded with $5 billion in money from...
Moms Helped by Crisis Pregnancy Centers Lobby for Life
NARAL Pro-Choice America and other abortion advocates are making a full-court press against crisis pregnancy centers, which offer alternatives to abortion. NARAL has released four reports on crisis pregnancy centers in...
Constitution à la Tea Party
The Tea Party clearly has the establishment in a panic. The latest evidence: "America's Holy Writ," a Newsweek article by Andrew Romano on the Tea Party’s supposedly confused approach to the...
Clinton Cabinet Member: Sacrifice American Pilot as Pretext to Get Saddam
Americans do not like to think of their government as an aggressor against foreign countries. We prefer to believe that our country is always the victim of unprovoked attacks and that...
FDA Cracks Down on Unapproved Chelation Products
The Food and Drug Administration, in its role as enforcer of politically-acceptable medical practice, has just “sent warning letters to several companies notifying them that the substances they sell without a...