The Bush-Obama-Neocon Doctrine
It’s official: When it comes to foreign policy, Barack Obama’s first term is really George W. Bush’s third. ...
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Libya: The $600 Million War
For all his talk about cutting deficits, President Barack Obama seems strangely unconcerned about the massive amount of money his unconstitutional war on Libya is costing the American taxpayer....
Is ObamaRail the New ObamaCare?
ObamaCare proved to be a winning issue for Republicans last November, and rightly so: It is expensive, intrusive, and ? most especially ? unconstitutional. What is the next expensive,...
Neighbors SWAT Team, Steven Seagal, and a Tank Rescue Chickens
Show business and militarized law enforcement combined to produce an expensive, frightening spectacle in Laveen, Arizona: the use of a SWAT team, a bomb robot, and even a tank...
Just Biden His Time: Reporter Closeted by Veeps Staff
Who would have thought the Obama administration, friend of the gay rights lobby, would actually force someone into the closet? Yet that is precisely what happened to Orlando Sentinel...
Paul, Kucinich Seek to Defund “Impeachable” War on Libya
Add Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to the list of those who think President Barack Obama’s imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya is deserving of impeachment. Last weekend Rep....
ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Puts the Bite on State Budgets
About half the states are suing to overturn all or part of ObamaCare for a variety of reasons, foremost among them the undeniable fact that it oversteps the federal...
Talking Austerity, UN Secretary General Hires With Abandon
Governments are notorious for pretending to be fiscally responsible while in actuality engaging in all sorts of trickery to disguise their free-spending ways. The United Nations being an assemblage...
Obama, Clinton, and Biden Agree: War on Libya Is Unconstitutional
What a difference an election makes. The man who just singlehandedly committed the United States to war against Libya, President Barack Obama, told the Boston Globe in 2007: ...
Gingrich: No Regrets for Supporting Medicare Drug Coverage
As if there weren’t already enough reasons to hope Newt Gingrich never becomes President, here comes another one: He says that he has no regrets about having supported the...
On Libya, It’s the Beltway Interventionists vs. Ron Paul and the Founders
The United States seems to be inching ever closer to intervening in the conflict in Libya despite the obvious dangers of doing so. Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joseph Lieberman...
White House to Supreme Court: Don’t Take Up ObamaCare Appeal Just Yet
In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, the Obama administration argued that the court should deny a request to bypass the appeals process and...
TSA Records: Some Scanners Emit Ten Times Expected Radiation
Americans concerned about exposure to potentially dangerous levels of radiation from the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners just got another reason to worry: USA Today reports that on March...
Illinois Sales Tax Law Leaves Amazon Affiliates High and Dry
In its attempt to force online retailers to collect sales tax on items purchased in the Land of Lincoln, the state of Illinois may have just cost its treasury...
DHS Exonerates Itself for Targeting Peaceful Protestors
In March 2006, the Intelligence Branch of the Federal Protective Service of the Department of Homeland Security’s Threat Management Division issued a “Protective Intelligence Bulletin” that listed a variety...