About: Michael Tennant
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House Republicans Break Promise to Post Bills Online Three Days Before Vote
In voting to hike the federal debt limit, Republicans in Congress have violated more than one of their campaign promises. One of the vows they broke was articulated in...
Big Brother Watching Every Car Passing Through English Town
Drive your car through the small town of Royston, England, and your license plate will be photographed by a hidden camera and checked against a national police database, regardless...
Sunshine State Snubs ObamaCare Simoleons
Give Florida Gov. Rick Scott and his fellow Republicans in the state legislature credit. When they say they aren’t going to implement ObamaCare, they mean it — even if...
With ObamaCare’s Help, Healthcare Spending to Reach $4.6 Trillion in 2020
Those who predicted that ObamaCare would do nothing to reduce healthcare costs but would increase government control over healthcare have been vindicated by a new report from Medicare’s Office...
Ohioans to Vote on Nullifying ObamaCare’s Individual Mandate
This November, Ohio residents will have a chance to amend their state constitution to protect them from the central feature of ObamaCare, the individual mandate, and to prevent their...
Obama: FDR “Fiscal Conservative”
According to President Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, long regarded as a free-spending President, was actually “fiscally conservative.” What’s more, said Obama, Roosevelt’s “austerity” hampered the economic recovery being...
Uncle Sam, Diet Dictator?
It’s a fact that Americans have serious health problems caused by their diets. Excessive consumption of fat, sugar, and processed foods is a leading cause of obesity, diabetes, and...
U.S. May Be Funding Its Enemies in Afghanistan
Is the United States bankrolling its own enemies in Afghanistan? According to a new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the answer may very well...
Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims...
Ark. Town Council Bans Civic Group, New Organizations
One of the quintessential ingredients of small-town America is the local civic group, an organization of individuals who attempt to better their community by influencing their local government. Of...
Shh! There’s a Secret CIA Prison in Somalia
With President Barack Obama having issued an executive order banning secret Central Intelligence Agency prisons and then-CIA Director Leon Panetta having stated that “CIA no longer operates detention facilities...
Will North Dakota Finally Become a State in 2012?
On November 2, 1889, the Dakota Territory ceased to exist, becoming the states of North and South Dakota — or so the history books tell us. ...
U.S. Begins Drone Strikes in Somalia
On June 23 the United States conducted an unmanned aerial drone attack in Somalia, killing at least one person and wounding others. The targets of the attack were members...
Government Funding Down; Scientists Experiment With “Crowd-Funding” Websites
In recent decades such a large portion of scientific research has been funded by governments, either directly or through government-funded universities, that most people can scarcely imagine a world...
Sunshine State TSA Screener Seen Stealing From Suitcases
While other Transportation Security Administration employees were sticking their hands in other people’s pants, one of them was sticking other people’s property in his own pants, according to the...