Senator-designate Newman: Blank Slate
The 63-year-old woman who will soon become the newest member of the U.S. Senate has a blank slate on political issues, despite a long record of administrative and leadership roles in...
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Judd Gregg and Bipartisanship
Bipartisanship, like budget deficits, was breaking out all over when President Barack Obama named U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) as his choice for secretary of commerce. Pending his all-but-certain confirmation by...
Obama: Capitalist “Risk-Taking” Created Recession
President Barack Obama blamed the current economic recession on “a binge of risk taking” by bankers in a Today Show interview that aired February 2. Specifically, here’s how Obama explained how...
The Heartland Institute’s Climate-change Conference
The Second International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute of Chicago will be held March 8-10 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. While the mainstream media...
President Obama’s Militant Muslim Connections
President Barack Obama's inaugural committee billed his January 20 National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral as a celebration of America's "diversity of faith." Among the official participants offering prayers at...
“Torture Memo” Author Attacks Torture Ban
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo castigated President Obama’s decision to ban torture and close Guantanamo in a January 29 Wall Street Journal opinion column that somehow avoided the use of...
Carbon Dioxide a “Pollutant”?
Governments often find it useful to have an enemy on whom it can blame a need to raise taxes and/or take away individual rights from its citizens. Real people such as...
Experts Warn of Oil Price Rise
Oil prices dropped from $141 per barrel to below $40, but experts say that this decline is going to end in 2009, according to 24/7 Wall Street. When oil prices tumbled,...
Massive West Coast March Energizes Right-to-Life
Tens of thousands of pro-life supporters from the San Francisco Bay area and throughout California converged on San Francisco for the fifth annual Walk for Life, West Coast, on Saturday, January...
Media Censors Huge Pro-Life Event (No Surprise Here!)
Tens of thousands of pro-life supporters marched through San Francisco on January 24 to register their opposition to the continuing abortion holocaust unleashed by the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision....
Obama’s Interview with Al Arabiya
On the morning of Tuesday, January 27, President Barack Obama gave an interview with Al Arabiya, an Arab news network based out of Dubai, in an attempt to quell Arab distrust...
Pelosi: Contraceptives for a Better Economy
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has revealed more of her worldview of humans and their worth. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC, Pelosi was attempting to defend the...
Obama Flexes his “Green” Muscles
There can be no doubt that Americans are not living in the constitutionally limited republic created by our founders. Instead, they now live in a centralized executive state consisting of an...
Phony Guantanamo Recidivism Numbers?
The Department of Defense claimed in a dramatic press briefing on January 13 that “61 in all former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed or suspected of returning to the fight” of terrorism....
UN Official Wants to Prosecute Bush, Rumsfeld for Torture
The UN's "Special Rapporteur on Torture," Manfred Nowak, in a message recorded on January 20 for broadcast that evening on Germany's ZDF television, urged the United States to bring charges against...