Hitting the Federal Debt Ceiling
That bump you just felt was the U.S. Treasury running up against the federal debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion. It happened on May 16 and was, as all the...
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Rand Paul: Right to Healthcare Is “Slavery”
The fundamental premise of universal healthcare, be it a Canadian-style government-run system or an ObamaCare-like public-private insurance scheme, is that individuals have a right to healthcare. That assumption, said...
Forbes: Return to Gold Standard Within Five Years
This was not a good week for the Federal Reserve. As if Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) congressional subcommittee hearing on the relationship of the Fed to the national debt...
N.J. Mulls Ban on Photographing Children at Public Events
Crises, real or perceived, often give rise to horrendous laws. The Great Depression led to the New Deal. The 9/11 attacks gave us the Patriot Act. Today a single...
Fannie and Freddie: Still Mortgaging America’s Future to Stay in Business
Need more proof — besides the staggering national debt — that the federal government is totally incompetent in fiscal matters? Three years after the feds took over their already...
CNN Poll: Ron Paul Stands Best Chance Against Obama
“Ron Paul cannot get elected” President, declared Donald Trump at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump, who has never run for office, let alone won an election, may...
How Not to End U.S. Aid to Pakistan
In the wake of the alleged killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special forces on May 2, some in Congress are beginning to question whether American aid to...
Mississippi Supreme Court Overrules Judge Seeking Homeschoolers’ Information
Good news for Mississippi homeschoolers: The state Supreme Court has vacated a judge’s order seeking the names and addresses of all homeschoolers in his jurisdiction. Judge Joe Dale Walker...
Santorum: Voting for Medicare Drug Program Was a Mistake
Now that he is considering running for President at a time when the federal government?s financial condition is precarious indeed, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum says that his 2003...
Robert Paul Probably Not Running for Senate
Lovers of liberty hoping that another Dr. Paul would go to Washington next January are probably going to have to wait for another election year. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
Poll Finds Tea Partiers Won’t Cut Spending, Will Hike Taxes
From reading the news and listening to the talking heads, one might get the impression that the Tea Party movement consists of government-slashing radicals who are equally fed up...
DISCLOSE By Any Other Name Still Smells as Sour
Last year congressional Democrats attempted to pass the DISCLOSE (Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections) Act, which would have required disclosure (hence the strained acronym)...
Obama Sends $25 Million in “Nonlethal” Aid to Libyan Rebels
As if it weren’t enough that the Obama administration is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on an unconstitutional war on Libya, the administration took the occasion of...
Robert Paul, Son of Ron, Weighs Run for Senate
First there was Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). Then there was Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Might there soon be Sen. Robert Paul (R-Texas, left) also? The Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
SPOT, the TSA’s Attack Dog on Free Speech
Suppose you’re standing in an airport security line, wasting precious minutes of your busy day waiting for your turn to remove your shoes and be electronically strip-searched or physically...
Mississippi Judge Goes Fishing for Home-schoolers
A Mississippi judge appears to be on a personal fishing expedition to find all the home-schoolers in his jurisdiction — and despite federal law and his own state’s Education...
In Libya, as in Iraq, “End of Combat” Means “More Combat”
Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war. The latest evidence of the veracity of this saying: The United States supposedly stopped attacking Libya on April...
Obama to Propose Tax Hikes to Cut Deficit
Proving Ronald Reagan?s adage that Democrats ?never met a tax they didn?t hike,? President Barack Obama is planning to ?call for tax increases for people making over $250,000 a...
Boxer Comes Out Swinging Against IRS as “Healthcare Policeman”
Sen. Barbara Boxer can’t decide whether she wants the Internal Revenue Service to police Americans’ healthcare decisions or not. ...
Budget Deal Preserves Federal Funding of Planned Parenthood
The allegedly pro-life Republican Party has betrayed its base again. According to Terence P. Jeffrey of CNSNews.com, the budget deal reached between the Obama administration and Congress on April...