Time to Bury Governments Attempts to Find Pedigree of Nation of Mutts
In a nation where individuals were treated as equals before the law, a person’s racial and ethnic identity would be irrelevant to public policy. But in a nation in...
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Freshmen Force House Leadership to Cut More Spending
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Republican leaders in the House of Representatives never really had their hearts in all their pre-election talk about shrinking government. Having vowed...
Rumsfeld’s “Defender of the Constitution” Award Has Few Defenders
“If you’re like me,” wrote Thomas Woods, tongue planted firmly in cheek, “you spend a lot of time concerned — weeping, even — that one of the great men...
Obamas Spending Cuts Use Scalpel Where Ax Is Needed
Touting President Barack Obama’s “responsible, sensible and achievable plan to put the country on a fiscally sustainable path” in a New York Times op-ed, White House Office of Management...
Government Shrinks and Private Sector Grows — in Cuba
The good news: The President has kept his promises to cut the number of government employees drastically and to reduce regulations so that new small businesses can open up,...
In the Land of Pyramids, Technological Relics Outwit Internet Shutdown
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak knows exactly what caused his downfall after 30 years of autocratic rule: the Internet. This marvelous communication tool — perhaps the greatest since the invention...
Gay Rights Groups Fry Chick-fil-A
The voices of “tolerance” on the left are once again demonstrating their intolerance of those who disagree with them. The target this time is the Georgia-based fast-food chain Chick-fil-A,...
Ron and Rand Paul Introduce “Audit the Fed” Legislation
The Federal Reserve cherishes its privacy and has fought tooth and nail to keep it. Nevertheless, its ability to shower greenbacks on favored corporations and foreign banks may soon...
White House “White Board” Hawks ObamaCare White Elephant
The obvious lesson to be gleaned from the last election is that Americans are unhappy with the policies of the Democratic Party in general and President Barack Obama in...
Arrested, Strip-searched Pro-lifers Score Another Victory in Court
LifeSiteNews.com reports that on January 13 the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal by Maryland police officers and state troopers requesting immunity from a lawsuit filed...
“War on Sudafed” Fails to Solve Meth Problem
Back in 2005 Congress passed a law, which President George W. Bush then signed, forcing sellers of products containing the decongestant pseudoephedrine to store such medicines behind the counter...
Iraq Attacks Leave Three U.S. Soldiers Dead
According to President Barack Obama, combat in Iraq involving U.S. troops ended on August 31. Four-and-a-half months later, American soldiers are still dying in the sands of Mesopotamia. The...
Tax Hikes in ObamaCare
ObamaCare was marketed to the American people as healthcare reform — something that would ensure that everyone could obtain health insurance and never lose it. It was most certainly...
Americans Arm Themselves in Wake of Tucson Shootings
Despite — or perhaps because of — politicians’ and pundits’ handwringing about the dangers of guns in the hands of ordinary citizens in the wake of the January 8...
If You Don’t Pay This Tax, We’ll Shoot Your Dog
German sociologist and political economist Max Weber once defined a state as an institution that “successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence in...
Rep. Clyburn Miffed That TSA Treats Congressmen “Like Everybody Else”
“We’ve had some incidents where TSA authorities think that congresspeople should be treated like everybody else,” Rep. James Clyburn (left, D-S.C.) told Fox News Sunday. ...
ObamaCare Repeal: Just What These Doctors Ordered
You wouldn’t know it from watching TV, but a large percentage of doctors are adamant that ObamaCare must be repealed. These doctors are trying to air physicians’ views. ...
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Will Repealing ObamaCare Bust the Budget?
Prior to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as ObamaCare, the Congressional Budget Office issued an analysis of the bill stating that it...
Cops Can Search Cellphones Without a Warrant, Says California Court
The War on Drugs has been chipping away at the Bill of Rights for decades. If a January 3 California Supreme Court ruling is upheld by the U.S. Supreme...
Obama the Lawgiver?
Although President Barack Obama correctly understood that his party had taken a "shellacking" in the November elections, he seems not to have drawn the obvious lesson from that defeat:...