North American Leaders Summit This Weekend
President Barack Obama will meet with Canadian President Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon this weekend in Guadalajara, Mexico, for a North American Leaders Summit. The host of...
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Rand Paul Running for U.S. Senate
Rand Paul officially opened his campaign for Kentucky’s open U.S. Senate seat August 5. Paul is a medical doctor and the son of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, and he...
More Unemployed, Yet Unemployment Rate Drops
Unemployment numbers ticked upward during July at a much slower pace than past months, leading many establishment forecasters to conclude that an economic recovery had already begun. The official...
Communism Still Stands in the “Stans”
The mass media tells us that communism around the world fell with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s almost become a proverb. But in some...
Obama’s Middle-class Tax-increase Dance
On August 3, everyone in the White House press corps was pretending President Obama hadn’t already broken his campaign promise not to back tax increases upon the middle class....
Ted Kennedy Receives U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama selected Massachusetts senior Senator Ted Kennedy to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom July 30, supposedly the highest civilian honor the United States government gives. ...
“Stimulus” Money Goes to Pornography, Nude Shows
The U.S. government will run about $2 trillion in the red this year, but the record budget deficit hasn’t stopped the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (President Obama’s “stimulus”...
Economy Shrinks Q2, Recession Worse Than Thought
Though data shows that the U.S. economy only shrank at a one-percent annual rate during the second quarter of the 2009 calendar year, according to “preliminary” data released July...
First-time Unemployment Claims Up
First-time unemployment claims continue to increase at a faster pace than expected. “The Labor Department said the number of claims in the week ending July 25 rose by 25,000...
Blue Dog Dems Strike Deal on Health Care
Members of a coalition of moderate House Democrats called the “Blue Dogs” have struck a deal to move Obama’s health care legislation forward after the August recess. ...
Dollar Values Plunge Worldwide
Just call it irony. The same day the value of the dollar plunged to a current-year low as measured against six other major currencies, and the same week in...
Bernanke’s Public Relations Offensive
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must know he’s in trouble. This week he completed a “town hall”-style meeting for PBS television to promote the Federal Reserve and suppress what...
Guantanamo Teen’s Trial Delayed by Obama Administration
The Obama administration has picked up the Bush administration’s policy of denying justice to detainees rather quickly, using the tactics of delay as the Bush administration had done. But in...
Bush Considered Violating Posse Comitatus Law
President Bush considered ignoring the long-standing and explicit prohibition against using military forces within U.S. territory, the New York Times reported on July 25. The deployment of military forces...
Is Obama Suppressing Deficit Info to Push Healthcare?
The lead in the Associated Press story reads: “The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap between its once-upbeat predictions about the economy and today's bleak...