Update on the FLDS Child Kidnapping
You may remember the spectacle of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) authorities removing 468 children from a west Texas religious community, based on an anonymous complaint of child...
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Obama’s Plan for Energy and the Environment
"We must act quickly and we must act boldly to transform our entire economy — from our cars and our fuels to our factories and our buildings," writes Barack Obama on...
Guantanamo: Will Justice Again Be Delayed?
Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon issued a release order on November 20 for five Algerian prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The Algerians had been locked up in Guantanamo...
Remembering Holodomor: The Ukrainian Famine
"Holodomor" is Ukrainian for "death by hunger." During 1932 and1933, between seven and 10 million Ukrainians were murdered through a brutal campaign of mass starvation, under the direct orders of Soviet...
Obama Adviser Brzezinski’s Off-the-record Speech to British Elites
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama on matters of national security and foreign policy, was the featured speaker at Chatham House in London on November 17, 2008. The...
Bailout Bill Did Not Stop Stock-market Slide
The enactment of the now-notorious $700 billion bailout package did not stop the downward slide of the stock market, as its proponents had promised. Recall that when the stock market took...
Obama’s Plan for “National Service”
A key platform of Obama's campaign is an effort to increase Americans' willingness to serve the government, along with more federal funding for service programs. "I won't just ask for your...
Terrorist Bill Ayers Misrepresents His Past
Bill Ayers now calls Barack Obama a "neighbor and family friend." He also says the Weather Underground never killed or hurt anyone. This is a lie. The evidence shows that the...
Obama’s Executive Orders
The media is anxiously speculating about what it hopes will be a rash of Obama executive orders overturning those issued during the past eight years by President George W. Bush. ...
Obama’s Health Plan
President-elect Barack Obama's "Blueprint for Change" calls for "affordable, accessible health care for all." After a quote from a speech he gave in Iowa City explaining that we have an "obligation"...
CIA Director Hayden Says bin Laden Isolated
During a speech given on November 13 before the Atlantic Council think tank, CIA Director Michael Hayden offered his best-informed opinion that Osama bin Laden is isolated and most likely hiding...
War Without End, Amen
The New York Times revealed on November 10 the existence of yet another secret administration policy that had been hidden from the American people: "Since 2004 [the Bush administration] has used...
Federal Reserve Loaned Nearly $2 Trillion
By now everyone knows that Congress and the White House approved an enormous $700-plus billion package a short time ago and that the Treasury Department is rapidly burning through that mountainous...
Showdown Looms Over Auto Bailout Plan
The pleading for a financial bailout of the U.S. auto industry is becoming more widespread and insistent. Governors from Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Delaware, New York, and South Dakota have added their...
Google’s Flu Tracking System
Just in time for the flu season, Google has created a new health tracking and reporting website focused on the flu called "Google Flu Trends." The service tracks and compiles the...