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Alternative Candidates Offer Different Issues, Few Specifics
Four lesser known candidates for president sparred sparingly with one another, while aiming their rhetorical blows on the major party candidates who weren't there in the Alternative Candidates Debate...
Senator Paul Takes On Government Bullies
Among other atrocities, the government regularly arrests, prosecutes, and imprisons Americans for trivial vagaries in the law. In his book Government Bullies, Senator Rand Paul points out a few...
Will Romney Rule Out Talks With Iran?
Either by coincidence or design, tonight's foreign policy debate between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney falls on the 50th anniversary of a Monday night when President John...
Obama, Biden Didn’t Know About Libya Security Requests, Spokesmen Say
In what might be called "Benghazigate," the controversy has continued over what the president and vice president knew, and when they knew, about requests for increased security at diplomatic...
Most Arms Shipments to Syria Go to Jihadists
Both classified documents and background statements by American and Middle Eastern officials confirm that most of the weapons sent to rebel forces in Syria are going to Islamic Jihadists,...
Former Senate Maverick Arlen Specter Dead at 82
Arlen Specter, the former Philadelphia prosecutor who played a key role in the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President Kennedy and went on to become Pennsylvania's longest...
Biden Knocked Ryan Over “Credit Card” Wars Biden Also Voted For
In charging his Republican opponent with putting "two wars on a credit card" in the October 11 vice-presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden misrepresented his own voting record on...
Ron Paul Won’t Endorse Romney, Sees “Essentially No Difference”
Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman who has twice run for the Republican presidential nomination, won't endorse the nominee of his party. Though Paul said last week it was...
Romney: Arms for Syria, More Sanctions on Iran
Mitt Romney is calling for tougher sanctions against Iran and arms for the rebels in Syria, despite past failure from following those foreign policy remedies. ...
Akin Ad Says McCaskill Profited From Stimulus Vote
With an ad the opposing camp has denounced as "desperate, nasty campaigning," Republican Rep. Todd Akin has gone on the offensive against Sen. Claire McCaskill in the closely watched...
DHS Fusion Centers Spend Much, Learn Little, Mislead a Lot
A network of 77 "fusion" intelligence centers, set up around the country under the auspices of the federal Department of Homeland Security, has over the past decade uncovered little...
Biden Says Middle Class “Has Been Buried The Last Four Years”
Did Joe Biden forget momentarily which administration has been in the White House for these last four years? Or did he temporarily lose track of which ticket he is...
Suicide Bomber Kills 19 in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on foot attacked a joint patrol of coalition and Afghan forces in the crowded center Khost in eastern Afghanistan Monday, killing three international service members and...
Judge Rules Mass Arrests of NYC Demonstrators in 2004 Unconstitutional
"The Fourth Amendment does not recognize guilt by association," U.S. District Court Judge Richard Sullivan wrote in ruling the New York Police Department illegally arrested a large number of...
High Court Won’t Hear Fourth Amendment Challenge to TSA Procedures
The U.S. Supreme Court on October 1 rejected the appeal of a Michigan resident who claimed the use of body-imaging scanners and pat-down procedures by Transportation Security Administration agents at...