“Budget Control Act” Rallies Lobbyists Against Spending Cuts
Lobbyists will be busier than ever in the next weeks and months ahead, trying to influence both the makeup and the recommendations of the new "supercommittee" that is supposed...
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Controversial Agreement: Mexican Trucks to Haul Goods Throughout U.S.
Mexican trucks may begin hauling freight throughout the United States by the end of this month or early September under a bilateral trade agreement that resolves a long-standing trade...
Foreign Intervention: “Moral” Attacks?
When Chalmers Johnson, a retired Asian scholar and former Naval officer during the Korean War, visited Japan in the mid-1990s, he was surprised to discover 38 U.S. bases on...
Gang of Six Plan: Spending Cuts or Wish List?
The bi-partisan "Gang of Six" plan, billed as a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction package, might better be described as a bi-partisan wish list. Rather than call for reductions in or elimination...
Bachmann, Paul Vote Against “Cut, Cap and Balance” Bill
Representatives Ron Paul of Texas and Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, the only presidential candidates among current members of Congress, broke with almost all of their Republican colleagues in the...
Midway, Ga., Police Shut Down Kids’ Lemonade Stand
Police in Midway, Georgia shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to make money for a trip to a water park in Savannah because the youngsters...
McConnell’s ‘Backup’ plan on Debt Limit Draws Fire From Conservatives
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been butting heads with Senate Democrats and President Obama in recent weeks in budget and debt ceiling negotiations, but the Kentucky Republican has...
“Isolationism” Now Center Stage in GOP Tent? Oh My!
It seems strange sometimes, the things that trouble Senator John McCain. Take the NATO war on Libya, for example, in which the United States is a participant, if not...
“Gay Marriage” Controversy Continues in N.Y.
Claiming allegiance to a "higher law than the law of the land," a town clerk in western New York has submitted her resignation rather than issue marriage licenses to...
Does Anyone Understand the Law?
Do we really understand what courts are for in America? I mean, do even really smart, educated people like (I realize I’m going out on a limb here) lawyers...
Time (Magazine) Flies off Course on Constitution
Asked about newspaper publishers who opposed his presidential candidacy in 1952, Adlai Stevenson was prepared with a characteristically witty rejoinder: "Their job is to separate the wheat from the...
A July 4 Warning Against Empire
John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State in the administration of President James Monroe, offered a toast to his native America on July 4, 1821. The Republic was yet young,...
Wars’ Costs Pegged at $4 trillion; $20 billion a Year for Air Conditioning
The cost to the United States of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan over the past 10 years has been somewhere between $3.2 and $4 trillion dollars, according...
Bachmann Wows ‘Em in the East
Just one day after officially beginning her campaign for President in neighboring Iowa, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann went to the East Coast and campaigned Tuesday in both northern New...
General John Stark: The Man, the Motto, and the “Coverup”
John Stark was a genuine hero of the American Revolutionary War or, if you prefer, America’s War for Independence. That he is not generally known beyond the borders of...