About: Michael Tennant
Posts by Michael Tennant
Clinton Cabinet Member: Sacrifice American Pilot as Pretext to Get Saddam
Americans do not like to think of their government as an aggressor against foreign countries. We prefer to believe that our country is always the victim of unprovoked attacks...
FDA Cracks Down on Unapproved Chelation Products
The Food and Drug Administration, in its role as enforcer of politically-acceptable medical practice, has just “sent warning letters to several companies notifying them that the substances they sell...
$77 Million CVS Fine Nothing to Sneeze At
CNNMoney reports that “CVS Pharmacy Inc. has agreed to pay $77.6 million in fines and returned profits in a case alleging improper control in the sale of an ingredient...
Federal Judge Allows States’ Lawsuit Against ObamaCare to Proceed
Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled on October 14 that a lawsuit brought by 20 states and the National Federation...
When “Almost” Isn’t Good Enough
“Let me save you some trouble,” author Kenda Creasy Dean says in the very first sentence of her book Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling...
Planned Parenthood Seeks Mandated ObamaCare Contraceptive Coverage
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, mandates that insurance companies cover a variety of preventive services at no out-of-pocket cost, thanks to an amendment...
The Tea Party vs. the Federal Reserve
The New York Times is worried: Tea Party activists and the candidates they support are openly criticizing that most sacred of quasi-governmental institutions, the Federal Reserve. Worse still, some...
ObamaCare Nunsense in Scranton
Scranton, Pennsylvania, the hometown of Vice President Joe Biden, has become the hometown of the latest ObamaCare controversy. Jeffrey Lord, writing for the American Spectator, reports that the impending...
Ray LaHood’s Cell Phone Hang-up
“I don’t want people talking on phones, having them up to their ear or texting while they’re driving.” Thus spake Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in an October 5 interview...
One Year After Obama’s Peace Prize: Where’s the Peace?
In a famous TV commercial from the 1980s, an elderly woman, surveying the minuscule amount of hamburger in the middle of a bun, asks pointedly, “Where’s the beef?” One...
Congressional Candidates Try to Silence Pro-life Critics
According to the Associated Press, Americans United for Life, a pro-life organization, is running ad campaigns against 12 Democrats, nearly all incumbents, who voted for -- or support --...
Washington Could Learn From Havana and Moscow
Once upon a time the United States had some standing to lecture communist countries on the virtues of free markets. Today, however, our government is growing larger by the...
The Karzai Family Fortune, Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers
The average Afghan — and, indeed, the average American — may be deriving very little benefit from the United States’ continued occupation of Afghanistan and the billions of U.S....
Rahm Emanuel Announces Candidacy But Is He Eligible?
President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, resigned from his post on October 1 amid rampant speculation that he would run for Mayor of Chicago in the wake...
When a Colt .45 Isn’t Just on the Bar Menu
Despite the best efforts of gun-control organizations, Americans are gaining more and more freedom to keep and bear arms. Forty-eight states now have laws allowing citizens to carry concealed...