Senate Caves to Fed Pressure, Waters Down Audit
Just before noon on Tuesday, May 11, the U.S. Senate agreed to a one-time audit of the Federal Reserve's emergency actions taken in response to the 2008 financial crisis....
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$Trillion Bailout of Euro, Greece Shows Need to Audit the Fed
The timing of the sellout by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last Thursday, May 6, on legislation to audit the Federal Reserve could not have been more auspicious — or...
Is Obama’s Bank Tax a Prelude to a Global Tax?
The Obama administration is calling its proposed $90 billion bank tax the Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee, and its salesman is Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. ...
Republican Hypocrisy on ObamaCare
Item: Mitt Romney stated on his Free & Strong America PAC website: “President Obama’s new healthcare law imposes higher taxes, cuts Medicare, contains insurance price controls and expands the...
The CFL Bulb Is Not Environmentally Friendly
For millions of environmental activists the Compact Fuorescent Light bulb (CFL) has become a popular mascot rivaling the World Wildlife Fund's panda bear symbol. Corporations, governments, and NGOs have...
Security Risk Anthony Lake to Head UNICEF
Anthony Lake, the controversial adviser on foreign policy and national security for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, is scheduled to take over as executive director of the United...
Poland’s History and the Power of “Coincidence”
The mind almost blows a fuse when contemplating the nightmare of Poland's latest national tragedy: the deaths of Lech Kaczynski, President since 2005, and no fewer than 96 others...
International Conference of Scientists to Challenge Global-warming Alarmism
The Heartland Institute's fourth International Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in Chicago May 16-18 and will feature more than 27 foreign experts from a dozen...
Obama Pressures His “Home Country” Kenya to Legalize Abortion
"President Barack Obama wasted little time after his election in promoting abortion abroad by overturning the Mexico City Policy and forcing Americans to pay for abortions and abortion promotion...
Media Jump to Smear Right With Extremist Label
The arrests on March 28 and 29 of nine people associated with the so-called Hutaree Militia in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio have provided media commentators and reporters with an...
Girl Scouts: Cookies, “Safe” Sex, & Lesbianism
For most of us, the mention of Girl Scouts evokes images of innocent, fresh-faced girls selling cookies, singing around campfires, enjoying arts and crafts, and doing good deeds. Alas,...
UN Body Attacks Nicaragua’s Abortion Ban
"At the recently concluded session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Nicaragua came up against intense and concerted international pressure from fellow United Nations (UN) member states over...
Big Tax-exempt Foundations Push Census Activism
Some of the biggest guns of the tax-exempt philanthropy world — Ford, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Soros — are using their funding clout to promote participation in the federal 2010...
Abortion Lobby Agrees: Obama Executive Order Is a “Symbolic” Fig Leaf
In an Oval Office ceremony closed to the press, President Barack Obama on March 24 signed the executive order he had promised to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and a...
Obama’s Debt Commission Means More Spending, Debt, and Deception
"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America ... there is established within the Executive Office of...