China and Pelosi Celebrate Anniversary of Tiananmen Square
While the Chinese government is busying itself with further cracking down on censorship of the Internet, television, and the printed word, human rights...
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White House Restructures National Security
President Obama announced the merger of the Homeland Security Council with that of the National Security Council in order to make Americans safer,...
U.S. Now Holds UN Human Rights Council Seat
With no competition, the United States received 167 out of 192 votes for an empty regional seat on the UN Human Rights Council....
Taking EPA Findings Under Advisement
Both the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House are issuing conflcting messages concerning greenhouse-gas emissions, and plans for regulating them, or not...
Obama Budget: Spend Big, Cut Little
The 2010 fiscal budget proposal from the White House forecasts spending $3.9 trillion during the current fiscal year, as compared to $3.0 trillion...
Obama’s Hunt for Supreme Court Replacement
With the impending retirement of Justice David Souter from the Supreme Court, speculation was rampant over the weekend on TV talk shows and...
Chrysler Bankruptcy Another Taxpayer Bailout
The handwriting has been on the wall for Chrysler for many, many years, but it appears that the storied 84-year-old automotive corporation, almost...
“No Coal” Goal
The road to Copenhagen in December 2009, where the United Nations will attempt to come up with a successor to the Kyoto (global...
Specter Defects to Democrats
Seventy-nine years old and in the Senate for five terms, Arlen Specter has decided to take the plunge and make it official: after...
Trauma of School Strip Searches
The Supreme Court on April 21 heard arguments in a school strip-search case, Safford School District v. Redding. Savana Redding was 13 years...
Earth Day Co-founder’s Dark Past
Founded by environmentalists in the late 1960s and officially initiated by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, at least one ecologist/activist who lays...
Moving Ahead With Adult Stem-cell Research
An outspoken advocate of adult stem-cell research and development is moving ahead with plans to raise $25 million for a not-for-profit adult stem-cell...
Kathleen Sebelius’ New Oversight
Buried by mainstream media and only reported by Christian and Catholic news sources comes the story of another oversight by another of Obama’s...
Naked Machines Cometh for All at Airports
The Transportation Security Administration has decided that because the pilot testing of whole body imaging (WBI) technologies as new airport security measures was...
New Cybersecurity Regime Proposed
Introduced just last week in the Senate, rather quietly, was the new Cybersecurity Act of 2009. Proposed by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV...