About: Michael Tennant
Posts by Michael Tennant
Faisal Shahzad: Exhibit A for Noninterventionism
One of the most dramatic moments in the 2008 election cycle occurred almost a year and a half before Election Day, during a...
Gulf Oil Spill Greases the Skids for Federalism
One of the few good things to come from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is Americans’ increasing realization that...
Federal Flood Insurance Drowning in Red Ink
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is drowning in red ink — $19 billion in red ink, to be exact, according to Fox...
Feds Fight Fat by Frying Freedom
If you think what you put into your body is your business alone, think again. The federal government, run by people who suffer...
Senate Considers Making the President King of Cyberspace
The Internet is a wonderful invention that has allowed for the dissemination of a wide variety of ideas. Not surprisingly, politicians, never ones...
Has Obama Lost His Pull on Capitol Hill?
When President Barack Obama took office, a large segment of the American population had such unrealistically high expectations for him — he was...
North Korea: A Grim Warning for the West
The New York Times — the newspaper whose reporter Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 while deliberately covering up Joseph Stalin’s...
Chinese Man Fights Eminent Domain With Fireworks
In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Kelo v. City of New London, ruled that governments in the United States...
Guns for Butter?
The Austin, Texas, Police Department conducted its first “Guns4Groceries” drive on June 5. Modeled “on programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., and...
Are Commercial DNA Tests DOA?
Want to know if your genes put you at greater risk for heart disease, cancer, or adverse drug reactions? For just $269 you...
When Preventing Beauty Discrimination Turns Ugly
Shortly after he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Rand Paul was subjected to an all-out media assault for daring...
Study Misused to Expedite ObamaCare Passage
“In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that...
Little Improvement in U.S. Employment in May
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its employment figures for the month of May, and they would appear to be very...
Canadian Healthcare Continues Its Collapse
With the passage of ObamaCare, the United States has taken another fateful step down the road to fully socialized medicine, the ultimate goal...
Christian Conservatives Court California Voters
According to the Associated Press, “A group of conservative attorneys say they are on a mission from God to unseat four California judges...