SENATOR Rand Paul?
If Rand Paul’s poll numbers are confirmed in today's Republican primary in Kentucky, it will, according to the New York Times, “mark one...
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Attack on John Birch Society Backfires
The recent article in Politico.com by Charles Postel hinting at “dark forces” influencing the Tea Party is another in a recent and growing...
Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Clearly Opaque
When President Obama named Elena Kagan as his nominee for justice of the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, he...
The Breakup of Ma Bell
Ten years into the 20th century, the United States citizenry were still enjoying the afterglow of a remarkable generation of economic growth, innovation,...
Biden Predicts Job Growth — but Where’s the Evidence?
Vice President Joe Biden predicted job growth of 250,000 to 500,000 jobs a month in the next two months, according to CNBC on...
Media Calls the Tea Party Patriots “Seditious”
When Joe Klein of Time magazine was forced to defend his comments about Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck coming “close to being seditious,”...
Eminent Domain and the Kelo Echo
“This is abuse…. It’s [another] case of eminent domain abuse,” said Renee Smith-Ward, owner of Wag’In Tail, a dog-grooming salon in Auburn, New...
10,000 Commandments — The Hidden Tax
When the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced the conclusions of its annual “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State”...
The Income Tax and Sovereignty
April 15th is the day when American taxpayers must file their income tax returns, and Tea Partiers are protesting those taxes all across...
47 Percent Pay No Taxes? Actually, No.
In a recent article here about the VAT (Value-Added Tax) being floated as another way to raise taxes, the author stated that a...
Will America Get a Value Added Tax (VAT)?
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker sent up a trial balloon at the New York Historical Society April 6 when he said that...
Strategic Defaults: Morality vs. Reality
According to RealtyTrac, nearly 3 million foreclosures were filed in 2009. And with almost 10 percent of all mortgages now delinquent nationally, those...
Fed Ends MBS Intervention
The Federal Reserve ended its largest intervention in the housing market on April 1, ceasing its purchase of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) that began...
Can ObamaCare Be Repealed, Nullified?
U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who has earned a "Freedom Index" rating of 90 percent in the current Congress to date, has introduced...
Citigroup Bailout Retrospective
In the announcement that the U.S.Treasury was likely to make a profit selling its stock in Citigroup, much was made about the great...