Fourth Amendment Under Seige (Again)
The Obama administration's Solicitor General Elena Kagan has called for all 27 judges of the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appealsa to rehear the seven-year-old baseball-steroid case, after an 11-judge...
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Another Stimulus Spending Bill in the Works
Top Washington Democrats are planning another round of "stimulus" spending legislation to create jobs, according to the Los Angeles Times for November 27. “The renewed push to create jobs...
GDP Numbers Revised Downward to 2.8 percent for Third Quarter
The U.S. economy grew slower in the third quarter of the year than initially forecast according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which revised third-quarter growth down...
Leaked British Documents Reveal Deception About Iraq War Entry
The London Telegraph has published excerpts of leaked secret British documents that reveal pre-war deceit by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and ongoing friction between British and American military...
ABC Reveals Site of Secret CIA Prison in Lithuania
ABC News revealed the location of an abandoned secret torture prison run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency about 20 miles northeast of the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in...
Anglo-American Strategy in Afghanistan: Pay off Insurgents with “Bags of Gold”
The London Times reported that official British documents have revealed that the new Anglo-American strategy in Afghanistan is to buy off insurgents with bribes of “bags of gold.” ...
Alleged 9/11 Co-conspirators to Face Trial
Attorney General Eric Holder announced November 13 that the United States will bring five alleged September 11 co-conspirators to New York for a criminal trial. “I am confident in...
Chick Heileson vs. Mike Simpson
Even his parents never called him Marvin. To all but his mother and a few other close relatives, he is “Chick.” (His parents called him “Chuck,” after his middle...
Obama to Host “Jobs Summit” Amid Stimulus Exaggerations
President Obama announced November 12 he will host a “jobs summit” in December at the White House to try to stop the upwardly spiraling unemployment rate. ...
Constitutional Candidates for Congress
As recently as two years ago, Congressman Ron Paul introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve Bank that headed to oblivion. Year after year — beginning in 1983...
23 CIA Officers Convicted in Italy, in Absentia
An Italian court convicted 23 CIA agents for kidnapping an Egyptian dissident on the streets of Milan November 3, sparking a global outcry against CIA “extraordinary rendition” tactics for...
Conservative Party’s Hoffman Loses Plurality to Democrat Owens in NY Congressional Race
Democrats narrowly won a plurality in New York's 23rd Congressional District Tuesday, a District that hadn't been held by a Democrat in more than 100 years. ...
Small Government Conservatism Has Strong Ballot Showing
The 2009 elections brought complicated results: Republicans swept both Governor's races, Democrats won both congressional races, and incumbents swept mayoral races. But advocates of small government also won the ballot initiatives. ...
Republican Withdraws from N.Y. Congressional Race After Conservative Revolt
New York Republican congressional nominee Dede Scozzafava withdrew last weekend from the special election that will take place Tuesday and endorsed the Democrat, Bill Owens, in a race where...
Did “Cash for Clunkers” Cost Taxpayers $24,000 Per Car Sold?
The federal $3 billion “Cash for Clunkers” program promoted by the Obama White House last summer cost an average of $24,000 per additional car sold, according to an analysis...
U.S. Paying Taliban Who Claim to Switch Sides
The U.S. Government will soon begin paying Taliban members who claim to switch sides in the insurgent war in Afghanistan, according to a report by the BBC. ...
GDP Increases 3.5% in Third Quarter, Fueled by “Cash for Clunkers”
The U.S. economy grew at a better-than-expected 3.5 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, according to an “advance estimate” released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) October...
NSA Supercenters to Store Americans’ Private Data Permanently
The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people's telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings...
Study Finds Obama Is Focusing Upon Wrong Healthcare Waste
A major healthcare study by Thomson-Reuters has concluded that the United States wastes between $600 billion and $850 billion on healthcare annually, a third of all healthcare costs. Perhaps...
Lithuania Investigates CIA “Black Site” Torture Prison
The Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas) is expected to approve this week President Dalia Grybauskaite's demand for a full investigation of allegations of a CIA “black site” prison in the Baltic...