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House Passes Amendment Blocking Some Funding for Libya War

The House of Representatives is upping the ante with regard to President Barack Obama’s ongoing, illegal war in Libya. On Monday that body...

Michael Tennant June 15, 2011

FCC to Officially Scrap Fairness Doctrine

Daniel Sayani June 13, 2011

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Wednesday that they are abandoning the so-called Fairness Doctrine, an FCC policy introduced in 1949 which requires...

Leon Panetta and the Institute for Policy Studies

Christian Gomez June 11, 2011

On Thursday, June 9, the U.S. Senate conducted confirmation hearings on current CIA Director and former U.S. Congressman Leon E. Panetta (D-Calif.), who...

House Passes Weak Libya War Resolution; Defeats One Ending War

Michael Tennant June 6, 2011

The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives managed to pull President Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire with regard to Libya,...

House Committee Votes to Slash Farm Subsidies

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. June 6, 2011

Last week, the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives approved a proposal to cut farm subsidies as a part of a larger...

House Leadership Protects Obama’s Illegal Libyan War

Michael Tennant June 3, 2011

Who says bipartisanship is dead? When it comes to unconstitutional wars, the leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties sing from the...

Government Uses “Blunt Instrument” to Extract Taxes

Bob Adelmann June 3, 2011

Rep. Rick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, told the Washington Business Journal last week that “instead...

Symbolic Debt Ceiling Bill Voted Down

Michael Tennant May 31, 2011

As expected, the bill to raise the federal debt ceiling that House Republicans brought to a quick vote today failed overwhelmingly. The bill,...

Democrats’ Tax Dreams a Nightmare for America

Michael Tennant May 30, 2011

Remember the halcyon days of the late 1970s, when inflation, interest, and unemployment rates all soared into double digits? Back then the top...

Navy Names Ship After Far-Left “Organizer” Cesar Chavez

Daniel Sayani May 27, 2011

The U.S. Navy is under fire once again, for its decision to name a vessel after radical left-wing activist César Chávez. Officials said...

Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Looms

Bob Adelmann May 26, 2011

Tuesday’s hearing of the House Oversight Committee gave Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) a chance to vent, and witness Elizabeth Warren, President Obama’s Special...

ATF Boss Threatened with Contempt Charge

Alex Newman April 27, 2011

As a congressional investigation of the Obama administration’s “Project Gunrunner” scandal proceeds, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif., picture, left) is threatening ATF Acting Director...

Sen. Grassley: ATF Provided Guns to Cartels

Alex Newman April 19, 2011

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice are under increasing pressure after getting caught providing misleading...

Congress Considers Bill to Extend Immigration Rights to Homosexual Couples

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. April 18, 2011

Late last week Democrats in the House of Representatives reintroduced a measure that would dramatically change current immigration law and provide immigration rights...