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...
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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...
Is Your Gmail Safe From the G-Men?
Does the Fourth Amendment’s requirement that the government obtain a warrant to search one’s effects based on probable cause apply to e-mail communications? It all depends on where those...
A Fein Time for an Impeachment
“Barack Hussein Obama has mocked the rule of law, endangered the very existence of the Republic and the liberties of the people, and perpetrated an impeachable high crime and...
Bill to End Obama’s Libya War Attracts Bipartisan Support
When launching his military intervention into the Libyan civil war, President Barack Obama undoubtedly expected some resistance from Republicans in Congress. On the other hand, he probably did not...
Washington Poised to Become Largest Source of State Funds
“From a fiscal viewpoint,” writes Sven Larson, Ph.D., “2011 may be the year when the United States ceases to function as a federation and effectively becomes a European-style unitary...
Ongoing Repression in Egypt and Its Lessons for America
Those thinking of celebrating the uprisings across the Middle East might want to reconsider popping the cork just yet. While these rebellions have indeed endangered or toppled longstanding repressive...