Government Reports No New Jobs in August, Markets Tumble
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the economy added no new jobs during the month of August in a September 2 release. "Nonfarm payroll employment was...
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Has the Media Suppressed Ron Paul’s Coverage?
Immediately after her noteworthy victory in the Iowa Presidential Straw Poll August 13, Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann managed to book herself on all five major Sunday national television political...
Iowa Straw Poll: Bachmann Wins, Paul Close Second
Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann narrowly bested Texas Representative Ron Paul in the Iowa Straw Poll by a margin of 152 votes out of a total of 16,892 cast in a...
GOP Debate: Michele Bachmann Says Foreigners Have No Rights
Does Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann really believe foreigners have no rights under American law? Apparently so, according to her remarks during the Ames, Iowa debate August 11. ...
GOP Debate: Bachmann Takes Down Pawlenty
The two Minnesotans in the Republican presidential primary — former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann — took aim at each other in the August 11...
GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney’s candidacy is something of a miracle. “Miracle Mitt” continues to claim — falsely — that he didn’t seek to raise taxes as Governor of Massachusetts. And he...
Ames, Iowa, GOP Debate: Paul Schools Santorum, Bachmann on Iran, War
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) schooled former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on foreign policy issues in the August 11 GOP presidential debate in Ames, Iowa....
GOP Presidential Candidate Ron Paul
“I’m Ron Paul, I’m a Congressman from Texas serving in my tenth term. I am the champion of the Constitution.” — Ron Paul (R-Texas), self introduction in the...
GOP Presidential Candidate Thaddeus McCotter
Representative Thaddeus “Thad” McCotter of Livonia, Michigan, entered the presidential race in July 2011, and styles himself as a conservative, telling the Detroit NBC-TV affiliate, “I’m a Russell Kirk...
Court Advances U.S. Torture Victims’ Case Against Donald Rumsfeld
The Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals ruled August 8 that two American citizens detained and tortured without trial or court hearing by the Bush-era Defense Department may sue former Defense...
Greenspan: U.S. Won’t Default Because We Can Inflate Money Supply
Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan (left) came up with a novel way to claim the U.S. government would never default on debt: print the difference. Greenspan told...
Bush Torture Lawyer Steven Bradbury Advising Romney Campaign
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's campaign for President announced that Romney has a committee of 63 lawyers advising his campaign August 2, and that list includes Bush administration torture...
Is the new “Super Congress” Constitutional?
A number of constitutionalists have warned that the new "Super Congress" — technically a joint committee of Congress — may be unconstitutional. The new entity will be created out...
Obama Signs Debt Limit Increase, Uses Politics for Phony Class Warfare
President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, just hours after the U.S. Senate approved the measure, which would raise the debt limit as much...
House GOP Favors Debt Deal; Most GOP Presidential Candidates Oppose It
The Obama-Boehner debt limit increase bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a 269-161 vote August 1, principally as a result of Republican votes. But most of the...