Smile! You’re on Red-light Camera
The cornerstone of American jurisprudence is that the accused is innocent until proven guilty. If your car is caught going through a red light by a traffic camera, however,...
About: Michael Tennant
Posts by Michael Tennant
Bringing Sanity to the Home Mortgage Market
Most people — except possibly the American political class — know that one of the prime causes of the current economic crisis was government policies that resulted in countless...
British Government Cuts Spending
Here in the United States, with budget deficits ballooning, our government is spending ever more money and creating new entitlements. ...
Medicare Actuary Debunks ObamaCare “Savings”
Medicare’s chief actuary Richard Foster has been a thorn in the side of both Republican and Democratic Presidents. ...
Tylenol’s Maker Suffers Pain From Recalls
According to legend, in the bad old days before the federal government got into the business of regulating pharmaceuticals, Americans routinely fell prey to unsafe “snake oil” products. Consumers,...
Feds’ Lies About Body Scanners Laid Bare
After years of assurances from government officials that the feds’ full-body scans of airline passengers and other persons are discarded immediately and never saved, the truth comes out: Some...
The New World of ObamaCare
By now most Americans are familiar with the broad outline of ObamaCare: Everyone is required by law to purchase health insurance, with a tax penalty assessed upon those who...
Charting the Murky Waters of ObamaCare
If you think what you’ve seen of ObamaCare thus far is bad, think again. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. ...
A Stark Contrast Between Liberty and Tyranny
Does the U.S. Constitution limit the federal government to a few, specifically enumerated powers, with all other powers retained by the states or the people? Or is it a...
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 political victory in a national campaign...
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 policies that infringe on civil liberties,...
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, August 3, includes a ballot question...
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 from big, bad business. Let someone...
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 anti-terrorism program — things like “enhanced...
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 complaints that there is little to...