Rand Paul’s New Tea Party Handbook
The Tea Party Goes to Washington, by Rand Paul (with Jack Hunter), Center Street/Hachette Book Group: New York, NY, 2011, 254 pages, hardbound. (Available at Amazon.com.) ...
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The Toll of U.S. Foreign Aid
Massive street protests erupted in Tunisia in late December, which ended the 23-year reign of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Fueled largely by an Internet-connected youth movement, the...
Patriot Act Attack on Fourth Amendment Extended, Despite Some Tea Party Opposition
President Obama is expected to sign a three-month extension of three provisions of the USA Patriot Act after Congress easily passed the measure, despite spirited opposition from congressional Democrats...
Does the U.S. Have an Internet “Kill Switch”
One of the last acts of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's tyranny before he abdicated his 30-year reign was to pull the plug on the nation's entire Internet in a...
Obama’s 2012 Budget: A “Down Payment” with No Money Down
President Obama labeled his 2012 budget proposal "a down payment toward a permanent fix" for the expected record deficit, but his fiscal 2012 budget proposal actually leaves deficits higher...
Egypt’s Problem of Leadership
Egypt has been undergoing a revolution that ended the brutal 30-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak February 11. But all of America is wondering what the end result will be...
Mubarak Resigns, Egyptian Military In Control
Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak bowed to pressure from protesters and resigned his 30-year reign, handing power over to the Egyptian military February 11, a move met with joy in...
Rand Paul Opposes Patriot Act Renewal on Constitutional Grounds
Freshman Kentucky Senator and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul announced February 10 he would oppose renewal of key parts of the USA Patriot Act on the grounds that the...
First Fed Hearing Begins with Democratic Character Attack
The ranking Democrat on the House Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee began the first hearing on the Federal Reserve Bank in the new Congress with dramatic ad hominem attacks...
The Honesty of Communists and Other Totalitarians
You Can Still Trust the Communists to Be Communists (Socialists and Progressives Too), by Fred C. Schwarz & David A. Noebel, Christian Anti-Communism Crusade: Manitou Springs, Colo., 2010, 370...
Arizona Shooting a Pretense for Attack on Free Speech?
Left-leaning pundits have been calling for limits on what people may say about big government, but not on what the pundits may say about small-government advocates. ...
United States Copying Gestapo and KGB Domestic Surveillance?
The Department of Homeland Security made national headlines in December after forming a new “partnership” with Walmart, using a 40-second video statement by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to ask...
Rumsfeld to Receive “Defender of the Constitution” Award at CPAC
Former Bush administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who helped inaugurate the Bush-era torture policy and locked up American citizens without trial, will receive a "Defender of the Constitution" Award from...
Obama Policy on Egypt: Back the Dictator
Obama administration leaders continued to defend Egypt's regime against protesters on Sunday morning talk shows, even as the corrupt 30-year reign of Egypt's Mubarak regime teeters on the edge...
Sen. Rand Paul: End All Foreign Aid
Tea Party favorite and freshman Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) may have crossed a "third rail" of politics by suggesting that the federal government zero out all foreign aid —...