CPAC, the JBS and Conservatism’s Real Fringe
One frequent news angle in stories regarding The John Birch Society's sponsorship of this week's ongoing CPAC conference has been the question of whether so-called “fringe groups” like The...
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Obama “Wouldn’t Rule Out” War Against Iran, Spokesman Says
Americans received yet another confirmation on February 16 that President Obama has taken on the mantle of his war-mongering predecessor with a statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs saying...
The Mount Vernon Statement and Ed Meese
All of the Washington/New York conservative establishment convened several days before the annual CPAC conference and came up with the “Mount Vernon Statement” of principles to which they subscribe....
NYT Admits America a Christian Nation (Sort of)
The New York Times published a valentine of sorts to Christians in its February 14 Sunday news magazine, admitting that the United States was founded in part as a...
Obama Violates Bill of Rights, With Bipartisan Support
The Washington Post took notice of the Obama administration's decision to continue to flout the categorical Fifth and Sixth Amendment prohibitions on imprisoning people without trial, in part because...
U.S.-UK Relations Strained Over Torture of Innocents
U.S. torture tactics have endangered relations with Great Britain in the wake of a decision by a British court to release a summary of the torture of British citizen...
Obama Eyes “Executive Orders” to Circumvent Congress
The lead of the New York Times story February 13 proclaims: “With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array...
Obama Signs $1.9 Trillion Debt Limit Increase
President Obama signed into law February 12 a bill that would increase the federal debt limit by $1.9 trillion to a total of $14.3 trillion. The legislation also included...
AP Removes Flawed Iran Story After Antiwar.com Exposé
AntiWar.com's Jason Ditz has caught the Associated Press acting as stenographer (and even exaggerator) for the neo-con lobby for war with Iran, in a grossly exaggerated story entitled "Iran...
Obama Copying Bush-era Detention Policies
The neo-conservative Wall Street Journal published two editorials February 9 about the Obama administration's progressive lurch back toward the blatant Bush-era attack on the Bill of Rights, titling a...
Police Stories: A Non-“Emergency,” Helping a Hungry Family
Police Chief Paula May of King, North Carolina, has been taking a lot of heat this week as a result of a “state of emergency” declared by town officials...
U.S. War in Pakistan Takes Casualties: 3 U.S. Soldiers Dead
The deaths of three American soldiers in Pakistan February 3 has exposed “Obama’s secret war inside Pakistan," according to theLondon Times February 7. The American soldiers “were killed when...
Obama’s Budget: Building Record Deficits Higher
President Obama didn't even get past the title of his budget before starting the lies. “A New Era of Responsibility,” President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget proposal, would increase the...
Mass. Sen. Scott Brown: The Next Generation of Neocon
Massachusetts’ new Republican Senator Scott Brown has taken America by media storm. Even before the ballots were counted to confirm his 52-47 percent victory over his less-than-inspiring Democratic opponent,...
CIA Has Program to Assassinate U.S. Citizens
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has maintained an assassination list of U.S. citizens for the last eight year and has actually assassinated Americans, according to January 27 Washington Post...
Obama’s State of the Union: Spend More, Tax Less
President Barack Obama's “State of the Union” address included a wide array of promises for new spending programs and tax cuts despite a record $1.35 trillion deficit projected for...
The Coming Small Business Revolution on Politics after Citizens United v. FEC
The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission promises to unleash the electoral fury of America's small businesses and citizens groups. The 5-4 decision will let...
FBI Says It Violated Fourth Amendment
The FBI has used the terrorism as an excuse to subpoena some 2,000 telephone records from phone carriers without a warrant or even a National Security Letter, according to...
Constitution Candidates Expand Across States
The 2008 presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul has spawned successive aftershocks that have progressively magnified in intensity over the original “failed” presidential run of the “Constitution candidate.” ...
“Crisis and Command”: John Yoo Again Defends Torture and an All-powerful Presidency
John Yoo's Crisis and Command is a turgid, 524-page love letter to an all-powerful Presidency generally and to dictatorship specifically. His theme? More Caesar, less Senate. ...