Making Healthcare Sausage in Congress
Proving that where there’s a will (among 58 or so senators and 38 percent of the American public), there’s a way to forcibly...
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President Obama to Accept Nobel Peace Prize
President Barack Obama is set to accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 in Oslo, Norway. This will be less than...
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EPA Declares Carbon Dioxide a Danger to Public Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has officially declared that carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health and welfare,...
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UN Launches Climategate Probe
The United Nations is launching an investigation into Climategate, the scandal involving incriminating e-mails from a leading climate change research center in England....
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Boys’ Educational Failure Is No Mystery
A lot has changed since 1960. If Connie Francis were to sing “Where the Boys Are” today, she would not likely be talking...
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No Deadline for U.S. Exit From Afghanistan
Obama administration officials on December 6 made it perfectly clear that American military forces will remain in Afghanistan for a long time, playing...
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A Senate Push for a Public-private Health Insurance Option
As the first snow of the season fell on Washington, D.C., there was a flurry of activity inside the Capitol Building, as well....
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A Look at Continental Congress 2009
During the final quarter of the 18th century, as tensions grew between England and her colonies here in America, the legislatures of 12...
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What Will Greenhouse Gas Reductions Do?
Item: The Obama administration must make a commitment on carbon-emission reductions, insisted the Washington Post on November 19. The House of Representatives, commented...
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Australians Say “No” to Copenhagen
Australian delegates to the UN climate-change conference have arrived empty-handed in Copenhagen since last week their parliament defeated cap-and trade legislation. The surprising...
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Pearl Harbor: A True Day of Infamy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But was the surprise attack really a "surprise"? The...
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The Unconstitutional Healthcare Bill
On November 7, at the end of a 12-hour debate, the House of Representatives passed the implausibly named “Affordable Healthcare for America Act.”...
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Copenhagen Summit Opens Amid Climategate Fallout
As the summit on global warming opens in frigid Copenhagen, climate alarmists at the United Nations and within various national governments — along...
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Government Funding for Nonexistent Jobs
John Stossel recently reported on the failure of federally subsidized job-training programs in Minnesota. Using federal stimulus dollars, the Summit Academy stated that...
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Sarbanes-Oxley and the Separation of Powers
On Monday, December 7, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments concerning Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). ...
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