Obama’s State of the Union: Spend More, Tax Less
President Barack Obama's “State of the Union” address included a wide array of promises for new spending programs and tax cuts despite a record $1.35 trillion deficit projected for...
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The Coming Small Business Revolution on Politics after Citizens United v. FEC
The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission promises to unleash the electoral fury of America's small businesses and citizens groups. The 5-4 decision will let...
FBI Says It Violated Fourth Amendment
The FBI has used the terrorism as an excuse to subpoena some 2,000 telephone records from phone carriers without a warrant or even a National Security Letter, according to...
Constitution Candidates Expand Across States
The 2008 presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul has spawned successive aftershocks that have progressively magnified in intensity over the original “failed” presidential run of the “Constitution candidate.” ...
“Crisis and Command”: John Yoo Again Defends Torture and an All-powerful Presidency
John Yoo's Crisis and Command is a turgid, 524-page love letter to an all-powerful Presidency generally and to dictatorship specifically. His theme? More Caesar, less Senate. ...
Coakley-Brown Race Offers Poor Ideological Choice
The special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of the late Ted Kennedy may be a bellwether of national discontent with the Democratic Party,...
Obama: Both Right and Wrong on Haiti Earthquake Relief
President Obama has two initiatives to help victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake, a private initiative that deserves lavish praise and a new government dole that lacks constitutional authority and...
Govt Funds Healthcare “Reform” Push
The push for President Obama's agenda to promote healthcare “reform” is being secretly underwritten by taxpayer dollars. MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, described by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein as...
U.S.Intelligence with Former Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist Chieftains in Yemen
The CIA has forged an alliance with Ba'athist exiles from Saddam Hussein's Iraq for intelligence in Yemen, according to the London Daily Telegraph for January 6. In an article...
Virtual Strip Searches and Terrorism
The U.S. Transportation Security Agency official blog published a twist on the old Clement Clark Moore poem the day before Christmas and the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a...
Florida Attorney General Challenges Constitutionality of Healthcare Bill
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum stated December 29 that the healthcare package the U.S. Senate passed on Christmas Eve contains an unconstitutional mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health...
Sounding a False Alarm on Yemen?
The Times of London reported December 29 that in the wake of the botched airplane Christmas day bombing Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi has claimed there may be...
Obama Executive Order on Interpol Gives Fatcats Full Tax Exemption
President Barack Obama amended Reagan-era Executive Order 12425 on December 17, which granted agents of the global police database Interpol full immunity from U.S. tax and customs laws, as...
Ben Stein Says Ron Paul Uses “Anti-Semitic Arguments”
Former actor-turned-economic and political advisor Ben Stein claimed Ron Paul was using an “anti-Semitic argument” when Congressman Paul argued the United States should refrain from bombing Yemen in a...
GOP Looks for Dem. Defectors as Healthcare Bill Punishes ‘Generous’ States
The New York Times documented that several "progressive" states that have expanded healthcare coverage on their own are not setting up to oppose the Senate version of the healthcare...