California’s Governor Brown Delivers for Labor Unions
According to Katy Grimes of the Sacramento-based investigative reporting website Cal Watchdog for October 19, "For unions, Governor Jerry Brown is the governor who keeps on giving." Over the...
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Is Global Warming Making Polar Bears Smaller?
Although since the Climategate scandal the science of manmade (anthropogenic) climate change has generally fallen into disrepute, that has not kept some researchers from speculating on the effect of...
S&P Again Downgrades Spain’s Credit Rating
Troubled European nations' credit ratings are continuing to plummet. On October 13 Standard & Poor’s downgraded Spain to AA-, three steps beneath the optimum AAA rating. Last...
Will DOJ Tell Church Schools Whom to Hire?
Terrence Jeffreys of CNSNews reports, "In yet another stunning attack on freedom of religion, President Barack Obama's Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to give the federal...
Salazar Wants More Latino-Focused Nat’l Parks, Sites
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been pressuring the National Park Service to locate sites related to the histories of women and minorities, particularly Latinos, which could be added to...
CDC Deputy Director Charged with Child Molestation, Bestiality
Dr. Kimberly Lindsey (left), 44, director of the Centers for Disease Control’s Laboratory Science Policy and Practice Office, has been charged with child molestation and bestiality. Her live-in boyfriend...
California Bans Open Carrying of Handguns
ABC News reports that California's Governor Jerry Brown (left) has just signed a new law "mak[ing] it a misdemeanor to openly carry an exposed and unloaded handgun in public or...
Wisconsin Labor Leaders Want Gov. Rusk Portrait Removed
Democrats in Wisconsin’s State Assembly have asked for the removal of a portrait of Governor Jeremiah Rusk (left), who in 1886 ordered the state militia to keep peace during the...
Denmark Enacts World’s First “Fat Tax”
The people of Scandinavia have historically been among the healthiest in the world. Their diet includes a great deal of fish, which is good for the cardiovascular system and...
High Court Hears Fired Lutheran Teacher’s Church-State Case
What does “separation of church and state” really mean? Many point out that the phrase is not found anywhere in the Constitution. Rather, it was mentioned by Thomas Jefferson,...
The Oil Industry Can Save America — If Washington Lets It
America at the end of WWII produced 60 percent of all the petroleum in the world. In fact, its status as the chief exporter of oil (the United States...
Greek Problems Underestimated — Again
The stock market in Europe took another hard hit when the Greek Finance Minister announced that his nation’s government will not meet its deficit reduction goals. ...
Will Women be Allowed to Drive in Saudi Arabia?
Not every nation and not every culture grants women the rights that they enjoy in America or those nations we usually call “Western” nations. Consider Najalaa Harriri of Saudi...
ACLU Sues to Stop Clergy From Performing Marriages in Nevada
Nevada has long been known as the easiest place in America to get a divorce — and a quick marriage. After a couple has had a “quickie” marriage and...
Home Sales Drop to Two-Year Low
Americans have invested in homes in many ways for a long time. During the frontier days of the West, families would homestead property and so through grit and endless...
Conflicting French Entitlement Reform Statements
While America's President shrinks from facing the demographic catastrophe lurking a decade or two down the road for Social Security, Medicare, and public pensions, there is evidence in Germany...
Obama Administration Still Sold on Solar Power
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in an AP interview on September 21 that the Obama administration will continue to support solar power. He made the statement despite the growing...
Fast and Furious Scandal Grows
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif., left), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is not impressed with the explanations given by Attorney General Eric Holder and other Department...
EU Debt Crisis: Italian Bonds Downgraded
The sovereign debt woes of the European Union are nearing a critical stage. Greece's short-term bonds have recently shot to 60 percent, indicating an extremely high probability that the...
Rising Gold Prices Spawn “New Gold Rush” in the West
Anyone who watches television news for more than a few hours is likely to see an advertisement for gold. As the Federal Reserve continues to print fiat money in...