Research Shows Globe Has Warmed and Cooled Naturally in Past
From about A.D. 950 to 1250, the North Atlantic region of the globe experienced a period of higher-than-normal temperatures. Known as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), it was a...
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Can Ron Paul’s Delegate Strategy Confound Conventional Wisdom?
Don’t count Ron Paul out yet. The Texas Congressman may not have secured any headline-grabbing victories in state primaries and caucuses. He may be trailing in the unofficial delegate...
Even If Overturned, ObamaCare’s Legacy Will Live On
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing oral arguments in the states’ lawsuit against ObamaCare. If the court, as it should, strikes down the entire law, friends...
CBO: ObamaCare Will Cause Millions to Lose Insurance and Double Cost
“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan,” President Barack Obama said repeatedly during the debate over his healthcare reform bill, hoping to allay fears...
How — and Why — Obama Kept a Jailed Yemeni Journalist From Being Pardoned
A journalist is arrested, convicted by a kangaroo court, and imprisoned because he reports stories embarrassing to the government under which he lives. After a great public outcry, the...
Santorum: Vote for Ron Paul if You Want Limited Government
Throughout the race for the Republican presidential nomination, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has attempted to portray himself as the conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. For...
Calif. Raw Milk Distributor Says He Was Tortured in County Jails
“I thought I was gonna die in there.” Those are the words not of a former prisoner of a communist gulag but of 65-year-old American James Stewart, describing his...
Pat Robertson Calls for Marijuana Legalization
“I just want to be on the right side,” Pat Robertson told the New York Times. “And I think on this one, I’m on the right side.” ...
Motor City “Stimulus”: $148,000 to Dress Two Low-income Job Seekers
As part of the 2009 federal “stimulus” law, the Detroit Department of Human Services (DHS) received an $11 million grant courtesy of U.S. taxpayers. Of that money, $148,000 was...
Federal Judge: Citizens Need Not Ask Permission to Exercise 2nd Amendment Rights
A federal judge struck down a Maryland law requiring individuals to prove that they have “good and substantial reason” for seeking a handgun carry permit from the state. ...
Feds’ Creative Accounting Masks Trillions in Unfunded Liabilities
Officially, the United States’ federal budget deficit for 2011 will be roughly $1.3 trillion, a staggering and almost incomprehensible amount of money. But this doesn’t even come close to...
Leaked E-mails Suggest bin Laden Not Buried at Sea
According to the official version of events promulgated by the Obama administration, after U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden, his body was flown to Afghanistan for identification and then...
Obama’s Double Standard on Reporting Government Abuses
At the start of his February 22 press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney offered a tribute to deceased reporters Marie Colvin, Remi Ochlik, and Anthony Shadid, all...
Syria: From Valued Ally to “Vicious Enemy”
Is the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, in the opinion of U.S. officials, a valued ally or a murderous, tyrannical regime? It all depends on which day you ask....
Canada: Four-year-old Allegedly Sketches Gun; Dad Arrested, Strip-Searched
On February 22, Jessie Sansone of Kitchener, Ontario, thought he was making a routine stop to pick up his children at the end of a school day. Instead, he...
Taking Stock of Obama’s Dividend Tax Hike Proposal
In his 2013 budget proposal, President Barack Obama is asking for what amounts to a tripling of the corporate dividends tax rate for high-income earners (individuals and households with...
Ron Paul: Excessive Defense Spending Endangers U.S.
Three of the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination have spoken out against planned reductions in future defense spending. Both former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former...
Indian Tribes Hop Aboard Obama’s “Clean Energy” Gravy Train
As part of its Tribal Energy Program, the U.S. Department of Energy is providing $6.5 million to various American Indian tribes for “clean energy” projects — everything from solar...
Santorum’s Stated Opposition to Public Schooling Doesn’t Match His Record
“We didn’t have government-run schools for a long time in this country, for the majority of the time in this country,” Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said during a...
Amish Farmer Closes Raw Milk Business After Feds Slap Injunction on Him
Hundreds of families in the state of Maryland have just seen their source of fresh, raw milk dry up thanks to the U.S. government. The Justice Department, at the...