Politics
Will New House Rules Mean New Hope for the Constitution?
Christmas is a time for hope and as a new Congress is sworn in after the New Year comes the hope that a...
New Congress Poised for Real Immigration Reform
With the 2010 lame suck session now in the past, what many hope will be a more conservative 112th Congress is poised to...
Read moreThree Congressmen Reject Congressional Health Care
While most politicians campaign on the premise that they are “one of us,” they seem to lose touch with the American people once...
Read more111th Congress Racks Up Record Debt
Leave it to Democrats to make the spendthrift Republicans of the George W. Bush era look like tightwads. “The federal government,” reports CNSNews.com,...
Read moreReapportionment and Redistricting Favor Republicans
The Founding Fathers provided in the Constitution for a count each 10 years of the number of people in our country. Citizens of...
Read moreFCC Ruling is Irrelevant
There have been sighs of despair and much hand-wringing coming from observers of the latest attempt by the FCC to intervene in the...
Read moreNearly One Quarter of Military Applicants Fail Basic Exam
While President Obama and the Congress were engaged in using the U.S. military as a pawn in the latest round of social experimentation,...
Read moreCity Charging Churches a Tax on Attendance
Under the guise of a “driveway fee,” the city council of Mission, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, has imposed a tax on...
Read moreReality Checks from New Jersey, Illinois
Steve Kroft called it "The Day of Reckoning" on his "60 Minutes" segment on Sunday, but many weren't buying it. Despite persuasive statistics...
Read moreWill Tea Party Rebels Upset the GOP Congressional Apple Cart?
Plutarch records that upon hearing one of his early public orations, Julius Caesar remarked about his erstwhile protégé and eventual assassin Brutus: “I...
Read moreFederal Appeals Court Misinterprets Constitution and State Sovereignty
The federal judiciary has had a chip on its shoulder ever since Alexander Hamilton described it as the “weakest of the three departments...
Read moreFCC Grants Itself Power Over Internet, Critics Attack
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission took a big step forward toward legislating government regulation of the Internet Tuesday with a bureaucratic vote in...
Read moreSenate Ratifies START Treaty
Moments ago, the United States Senate voted 71-26 to approve ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, also known as New START....
Read moreAssessing the Impact of Reapportionment and Redistricting
The census data, along with the Republican gains in state legislatures and governorships, means that Democrats face a grim decade in House elections....
Read moreSenate Unanimously Passes 9/11 Responders Bill
Moments ago, the United States Senate voted to pass the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a police detective who...
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