About: Michael Tennant
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Missourians Vote to Nullify ObamaCare
“Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first...
Obama Seeks Expanded Internet Surveillance Authority
Just one week after the American Civil Liberties Union issued a report castigating the Obama administration for its extension and expansion of Bush-era...
Will the Show-Me State Show Us How to Nullify ObamaCare?
The growing movement for state nullification of ObamaCare may get another boost on August 3. Missouri’s primary election, to be held on Tuesday,...
Who’s at Fault if WikiLeaks Endangers Innocents?
The federal government loves corporate whistleblowers; they get paraded before congressional committees and treated as selfless heroes out to protect the little guy...
ACLU: Obama’s “New Normal” Is Bush’s Old One
Though neoconservatives and other pro-national security-state types would have Americans believe that President Obama has made a clean break with the Bush administration’s...
Pentagon Can’t Account for Iraq Reconstruction Funds
“A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi...
Tackling Domestic Violence One Boondoggle at a Time
Your tax dollars at work: “The National Institutes of Health spent $314,613 over two years on a study that determined that family violence...
Financial Reform Bill Fortified with “Conflict Minerals” Mandate
Is there any conflict in the world too remote or too irrelevant to U.S. national security for Washington not to interfere in it...
Thanks to ObamaCare, Some Kids Won’t Have Health Insurance
The unintended consequences of ObamaCare continue to pile up. The latest is that some insurance companies are now refusing to write new policies...
Did Pro-Lifers Err in Their Assertions of ObamaCare Abortion Funding?
On July 19 The New American reported that under ObamaCare the federal government has begun funding abortions through state high-risk insurance pools. Pennsylvania...
What Would Speaker Boehner Do?
House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio wants to be Speaker of the House of Representatives; and he will most likely be Speaker...
Federal Medical Snooping — and How to Stop It
The 2009 economic stimulus package has largely been a bust. However, one sector of the economy that should be seeing robust growth is...
ObamaCare Abortion Funding Has Begun
So much for President Obama’s executive order banning federal funding of abortions under ObamaCare. Two states, Pennsylvania and Maryland, have now accepted federal...
A Friendly Chat With the First Nanny
Every First Lady, it seems, has to have a cause. Lady Bird Johnson had her beautification program. Nancy Reagan had “Just Say No”...
Avandia: A Case Study in Big Pharma-FDA Collusion
Pharmaceutical manufacturer SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline, found in a 1999 study that its diabetes medicine, Avandia, posed serious heart attack risks — then...