About: Michael Tennant
Posts by Michael Tennant
Former Congresswoman Regrets ObamaCare Vote; Unaware of Contraceptive Mandate
Former U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Erie, Pennsylvania, was one of six pro-life Democrats in Congress who caved in to pressure from President Barack Obama to vote for the...
House Passes Bill to End Automatic Spending Increases
For nearly four decades Congress has ensured that federal spending rises inexorably by guaranteeing that every budget item increases automatically each year. And woe to anyone who seeks merely...
TSA Agent Caught Stealing $5,000 from Passenger at JFK Airport
Another day, another sticky-fingered Transportation Security Administration agent caught stealing from airline passengers: According to the Associated Press, 31-year-old Alexandra Schmid, a TSA screener at New York’s John F....
No-fly List Doubled in One Year
In the past year the U.S. government’s no-fly list has more than doubled, going from about 10,000 names to about 21,000, according to the Associated Press. Among those names...
Did Newt Gingrich Endorse ObamaCare in 2009?
From 1993 until midway through 2011, Newt Gingrich repeatedly and quite forcefully argued that the federal government ought to impose an ObamaCare-like individual mandate on Americans, requiring them to...
Obama’s Solution to High College Costs: Fight Subsidies With Subsidies
“We are putting colleges on notice,” declared President Barack Obama. “You can’t assume that you’ll just jack up tuition every single year. If you can’t stop tuition from going...
Obama’s Administration Contradicts His State of the Union Claims
The Obama administration really needs to get its act together. According to CNSNews.com, at least two of the claims President Barack Obama made during his recent State of the...
Columnist Calls for Internet “Quality Control” to Quash Dissent
Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with Tarzan? Have you any doubts about...
On Roe v. Wade’s 39th Anniversary, Obama Celebrates the “Constitutional Right” to Abortion
On January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court voided the abortion laws of all 50 states in an unprecedented and brazen display of disregard for the Constitution it was...
Kucinich Bill Would Tax Away “Unreasonable” Oil Company Profits
Feeling pain at the gas pump? Congressman Dennis Kucinich thinks he has a solution: Tax “unreasonable” oil company profits. The Ohio Democrat has introduced the Gas Price Spike Act,...
Steal $40K, Get 6 Months in Jail — If You’re a TSA Worker
Steal $40,000 from a bank, and you’ll spend a decade or two in prison. Steal $40,000 from an airplane passenger’s luggage and you’ll get six months — if you’re...
Is SOPA on the Ropes?
On Wednesday Internet users got a taste of what opponents of an intellectual property bill currently before Congress say the web could look like if the bill becomes law....
Judge Rules Against GOP Candidates in Lawsuit Seeking Va. Ballot Access
On January 13 U.S. District Court Judge John Gibney ruled against Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Santorum in a lawsuit seeking to have...
Fed Didn’t Recognize Housing Crisis in 2006, Transcripts Show
Central banks are often justified on the basis that a complex, modern economy requires top-down management by experts. These people, it is said, can study the markets and then...
Paul Urges Non-Romney Rivals to Get Out of Race and Unite Behind Him
Moments after placing a strong second in the New Hampshire primary, Ron Paul sent a message to all the other Republican presidential candidates who have never been Governor of...