Boxer Violates Senate Rules for “Cap-and-Trade” Bill
Dismissing concerns that the environmental assumptions underlying the bill may be fundamentally flawed, key Senate Democrats have ignored their own rules in an...
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Healthcare Bill: Pay for a Plan or Go to Jail
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is prepared to jail any American who does not buy a qualifying health insurance plan if the...
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13 Dead in Shooting at Texas Army Base
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, on November 5 went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. The ensuing gunfire...
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AARP & AMA Support House Healthcare Bill
AARP, the 40-million-member senior-citizen lobbying group, and the American Medical Association, representing 250,000 physicians, on November 5 threw their support behind the healthcare...
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Constitutional Healthcare
The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was apparently dumbfounded recently when a reporter asked about the constitutional authority for requiring people...
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Obamacare and the Demise of Federalism
By the time of the founding, the definition of federalism was already so firmly settled and so deeply imbedded in the American understanding...
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Dangerous Connections: NBA and the KGB
The recent public assassination in Moscow of Russian oligarch and sports team owner Shabtai Kalmanovich should give NBA promoters pause regarding their headlong...
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Obama Says Native Americans Not Forgotten
President Barack Obama on November 5 met with Native American tribal leaders at what was dubbed the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The...
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Unemployment Rate Shoots Past 10 Percent
The unemployment rate shot from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent in October, the highest it has been since 1983, the Labor...
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Healthcare, Sausages, and the Constitution
Two things that people should never see being made, Otto Von Bismarck once quipped, were sausages and laws. The Founding Fathers intended to...
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Massachusetts Gun Storage Law Heading to State’s Highest Court
If Charleton Heston had lived in Massachusetts, then his rousing warning regarding his right to gun ownership would have read: “You can have...
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Obama Bribes States With Education Grants
President Barack Obama on November 4 waved $5 billion of federal grant money under the noses of state education officials to entice them...
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The Healthcare Bill’s Sops to the Mental-health Industry
Most people (including Members of Congress and the press) won’t read the nearly 2,000-page healthcare bill (“Affordable Health Care for America Act”: H.R....
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Patriot Act Vote Scheduled for Nov. 5
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider a bill on November 5 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation believes is this year’s “best...
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Maine Rejects Same-sex Marriage
As Maine goes, so stands Rhode Island. Until yesterday, tiny Rhode Island was the only one of the six New England states to...
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