Harry Reid Shuts Down Senate After Rand Paul Libya Maneuver
A "sense of the Senate" resolution by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky., left) opposing President Obama's Libyan intervention using Obama's own words as a Senator has tied up the U.S....
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“Government Shutdown Prevention Act” Provokes Constitutional Lecture by Barney Frank
It's the kind of legislative proposal that makes you pinch yourself and wonder what the House Republican leadership is thinking. The U.S. House of Representatives will consider a "Government Shutdown Prevention...
Tom Woods Smacks Down Mark Levin on War Powers
Professor Thomas E. Woods (pictured, left), Jr. has taken syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin (picture inset) to task for claiming the President can constitutionally bring the nation...
FBI Convicts Bernard Von NotHaus for Minting and Selling Silver Coins
The FBI won a three-count conviction against precious-metals dealer Bernard von NotHaus on March 18 for the "crime" of minting memento "dollars" in silver, and the FBI charged in a...
Can We Cut “Defense” Spending?
Military and security spending amounts to $1 trillion every year, but there’s a lot to “defense” spending that doesn’t defend, and can still be cut — if America can...
Rep. Amash Calls Libya Action Unconstitutional
Freshman Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) claims President Obama is violating the U.S. Constitution by committing U.S. armed forces to enforce a no-fly-zone over Libya without approval from Congress, and...
A Real Cost/Benefit Analysis of Libyan Intervention
President Obama has made the "decision" to put American soldiers into harm's way in Libya without the required permission under the U.S. Constitution (or even consulting Congress). American enforcement...
Democrats Boycott House Hearing Critical of Fed Policy
The House Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee concluded in hearings March 17 — apparently boycotted by committee Democrats — that the Federal Reserve Bank's inflationary policies were hurting...
Protests Against Treatment of Alleged Wikileaks Source Widen
State Department publicity of the mistreatment of accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning has prompted a response from President Obama on March 11, forced the resignation of State Department spokesman P.J....
Obama: Prison for Life Without Trial Is Okay
President Obama announced that he will continue to keep approximately 50 Guantanamo detainees imprisoned indefinitely without trial in an executive order released March 7, in addition to initiating his own "military...
Can We Cut “Defense” Spending?
Andrew Ferguson of the Weekly Standard summed up the neoconservative case against cutting U.S. defense spending in a February 21 article entitled “The Stockman Temptation.” In Ferguson’s article, he...
The Toll of U.S. Foreign Aid
U.S. foreign aid has long been used to support and influence tyrannical regimes around the world. ...
Would Cutting Foreign Aid Help Israel?
Six Democratic Senators wrote to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) February 1 complaining that “Republican Senator Rand Paul...
Alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning Charged with “Aiding the Enemy”
The U.S. Army filed 22 new charges March 2 against Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, who is alleged to have been Wikileaks' source for a variety of intelligence data...
Ben Bernanke Opposes Spending Cuts
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told members of the House Financial Services Committee March 2 that even mild cuts in spending could cost the economy 200,000 jobs, and offered...