Sen. Rand Paul: End All Foreign Aid
Tea Party favorite and freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) may have crossed a "third rail" of politics by suggesting that the federal government zero out all foreign aid —...
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U.S., British Govts Keep Pressure on WikiLeaks
U.S. and British government officials have begun a global crackdown against pro-WikiLeaks "hacktivists" who briefly shut down Mastercard, Visa, Paypal and Amazon.com December 9. The loose group of hacktivists...
Arizona Shooting: Pretense for Attack on Free Speech?
It took only a matter of hours after the Arizona shooting — amidst the leftist media war cry for government controls against animated political speech — for those calls...
Egyptian Protests Turn Violent, Mimic Tunisian Uprising
The Internet revolution that engulfed Tunisia two weeks ago has apparently spread to Egypt, as thousands of youths rallied against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's corrupt regime. ...
Jon Stewart: America’s Leading Journalist?
The question sounds like a joke, made up by one of the talented writers for Comedy Central’s Daily Show itself: Is the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart the journalistic reincarnation...
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Is Manning’s Prolonged Isolation Torture?
The military lawyer for alleged WikiLeaker Bradley Manning claims that the government is punishing the prisoner before he's even had his trial by jury, including six months of isolation...
Obama to Pursue Unconstitutional Military Commissions
The Obama administration is planning to renew the Bush administration's idea of "military commissions" trials for Guantanamo detainees and other suspects long imprisoned in the so-called "war on terrorism." ...
A Renewed Myth That The John Birch Society Incited Kennedy Assassination
The Warren Commission concluded back in 1964 that it had "no evidence that the extreme views expressed toward President Kennedy by some rightwing groups centered in Dallas or any other...
FBI Wiretapping of Congressmen Curtailed
The war over executive branch wiretapping is continuing, though there's one front where the executive branch appears to be losing: wiretapping congressmen. The Washington Post reported January 18 that...
WikiLeaks to Release Banking Information
Internet whistleblower website WikiLeaks plans to release information on tax evasion by the rich and famous after obtaining two disks of information from former Cayman Islands branch chief of...
WikiLeaks Kills Off Tunisian Tyranny (With Facebook, Twitter, Blogger Help)
Condemned by U.S. officials as dangerous and by Republican leader Sarah Palin as "anti-American," Wikileaks has facilitated the destruction of Tunisia's tyrannical state with the whistleblower website's release of...
George Will, “Congressional Supremacy,” and “American Exceptionalism”
Every once in a while, America's establishment columnists treat their readers to a surprisingly helpful bit of writing. Such was the case with George Will's January 16 column for...
FBI Issues Death Threat in U.S. Citizen Interrogation
An FBI agent reportedly issued a death threat against a U.S. citizen traveling abroad, according to the January 13 New York Times. The American, 19-year-old Gulet Mohamed, also alleges...
Jon Stewart: Americas Leading Journalist?
The question sounds like a joke, made up by one of the talented writers for Comedy Central’s Daily Show itself: Is the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart the journalistic reincarnation...
The Instant Liberal Frenzy to Ignore the U.S. Constitution
The public reading of the Constitution on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives has quickly drawn a rising tide of outrage from the leftist media, who have...