Obama v. Romney: Their Core Beliefs
President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney are in the public eye almost every day, but few Americans can tell where they differ and where they're alike. The...
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Mich. Primary: Bentivolio, Amash, Hoekstra All Winners
Reindeer farmer and high school teacher Kerry Bentivolio easily prevailed in a Michigan GOP congressional primary August 7 to replace U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter against a well-funded establishment insurgency...
Arthur Laffer: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Proves He Still Has Much to Learn
Supply Side economics school godfather Arthur Laffer penned an op-ed column for the Wall Street Journal August 6 that claims increases in government spending inhibited economic growth during the recession, as indicated...
Ron Paul Ally Kerry Bentivolio Gets Super-PAC Aid in Congressional Bid
Michigan congressional candidate Kerry Bentivolio will get a leg up in his battle against the GOP establishment in next week's Republican primary election, courtesy of the Ron Paul movement-aligned...
WikiLeaks’ Syria Files: Embarrassing to West, Irrelevant in Syria
WikiLeaks' “Syria Files,” 2.4 million emails purloined from anonymous Syrian government sources, seem destined to have a greater impact on the West than on Syria. The headlines thus far have...
WikiLeaks Sees Financial Spigot Re-Open, Wounds Itself on Satiric Hoax
The Internet-based whistleblower website WikiLeaks appears to have won some battles to recover its financial infrastructure in the past few weeks, winning the first stage of a legal battle...
UN Conference Fails to Agree to Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)
The month-long United Nations conference to draw up a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) failed to achieve consensus after the United States, Russia, and China requested more time to...
Australian Government Helps Cover Up Guantanamo Crimes
The Australian government folded a civil case against former Guantanamo Bay prison inmate David Hicks after former Guantanamo guard Brandon Neely pledged to testify under oath to conditions at...
CFR Tells Americans “UN Doesn’t Want Your Guns”
Stewart M. Patrick of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations says that gun owners' concerns about a United Nations small arms treaty, the so-called Arms Trade Treaty(ATT) being...
Rep. Paul’s Audit the Fed Bill Passes House, 327-98
Texas Congressman Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve Bank easily passed the House of Representatives July 25 by a vote of 327-98. Every House Republican voted for...
Barack Obama Walks Back “You Didn’t Build That” … Sort Of
President Obama's campaign tried to walk back his July 13 “You didn't build that” remarks about small businesses in America in a series of video statements July 25. ...
Insiders: Mitt Romney’s Neocon, Hawkish Advisors on Foreign Policy
The Wall Street Journal reported July 22 that Mitt Romney has gathered a coterie of establishment neoconservatives interested in war with Iran. “Mitt Romney is relying on both moderate and hawkish...
Clinton Fends off Shoes, Tomatoes & Charges of Collusion with Muslim Brotherhood
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade faced a barrage of tomatoes, shoes, and protesters in her visit to Cairo, Egypt July 16. Some Egyptian protesters charged that the U.S....
Anti-First Amendment “Disclose Act” Fails Senate Cloture Vote
The U.S. Senate rejected a cloture motion to end debate and pass the “Disclose Act of 2012” July 16 on a nearly party-line 51-44 vote, which would have required disclosure of donors who...
UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on Small Arms: Gun Grab Gradualism
The United Nations is polishing up a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) this month in a New York convention that would create a global registry of private ownership of...