Drone Over Miami
Residents of Miami-Dade County, Florida, beware: Big Brother may soon be watching you — even inside your house. ...
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“Pro-Choice” Columnist: Abort Planned Parenthood’s Federal Funding
Give Kirsten Powers credit. She may be a liberal, abortion-rights supporter, but she is also willing to modify her opinion on the basis of an objective review of the...
REAL ID Buried for Another 20 Mos., But Not Dead
Like zombies in a bad horror flick, ideas for federal power grabs never die. Regardless of how much resistance they encounter from states and citizens, the feds just keep...
Founding Fathers for ObamaCare?
Liberals are arguing that legislation passed by many of the Founding Fathers proves that they would have approved of ObamaCare. In other words, it’s constitutional. ...
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Federal Judge Stays Own Ruling Against ObamaCare
On January 31, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson of the Northern District of Florida ruled that President Barack Obama’s healthcare law is unconstitutional, essentially halting implementation of the...
Obamas Transportation Budget Drives up the Deficit
You?d never know President Barack Obama proposed a domestic discretionary spending ?freeze? by looking at the 2012 budget he submitted to Congress. According to The Hill's Erik Wasson, Obama?s...
Libya: To Intervene or Not to Intervene?
For all their talk about making the world safe for democracy, Western — and particularly U.S. — leaders seem to give very little weight to public opinion when it...
Obama Agrees to Minor Change to Healthcare Law—But Why?
The Associated Press reports that President Barack Obama made “a concession over his divisive health care overhaul” during a February 28 address to state governors. The “concession” was a...
Will House Leaders Cave on Defunding Planned Parenthood?
On February 17 the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) to prohibit federal funding of Planned Parenthood for the remainder of the...
Healthcare “Death Panels” Alive and Well in Britain
Government “death panels” may still be years if not decades away here in the United States. But in Great Britain, which has suffered under socialized medicine since 1948, such...
Montana Legislators Stick Up for the Constitution
The mainstream media can handle politicians who talk about cutting government on the campaign trail but abandon those views once in office. They cannot, however, deal with those who...
ObamaCare Is Collectivized Healthcare
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Lloyd M. Krieger argues that while the Republicans in Congress are right to seek the repeal or defunding of ObamaCare,...
Founding Fathers for ObamaCare?
Did the Founding Fathers support the idea of government-run healthcare? The question seems to answer itself. The Founders had just thrown off the shackles of big government, putting in...
A Tale of Two Women and the TSA
Recently two women tried to pass through airport security in the United States. One was unarmed; the other was hiding a gun in her underwear. Which one did the...
Anaheim Using GPS to Track Truant Students
The Anaheim Union High School District has a message for students who skip school too often: From now on, Big Brother will be watching you. ...
Dismissing a Lawsuit — and the Constitution
On February 17, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, seated in Charleston, South Carolina, dismissed a lawsuit filed by Jose Padilla against Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary Donald...
Obamas No New Debt Ploy
With his latest budget proposal, President Barack Obama is trying to convince the American people that after years of spending taxpayers’ money like water and running up record debts,...
Defector Admits Lying Extensively About Iraq’s Alleged WMD
If any doubt remained that the U.S. and British governments’ case for invading Iraq was based almost entirely on lies, the Guardian has just put such doubt to rest....
U.S. Government Funds Rwandan Sterilization Campaign
One more reason to terminate all foreign aid: The U.S. Agency for International Development — funded, of course, by American taxpayers — is providing money to at least two...
Will This Unconstitutional Wealth Transfer Be Wiped Off the MAP?
If you have a product you would like to export but you don?t want to pay to advertise the product in foreign countries, don?t sweat it. Just get taxpayers...