About: Michael Tennant
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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...
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...
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...