Congressional Races: Tipping the Balance in November
"The Republicans doubled the debt and now the Democrats are tripling the debt," Rand Paul told his supporters on September 12. "There's not a lot of kudos to go...
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FBI Targets Antiwar Activists
Members of left-wing war protest organizations plan vigorous protests Monday and Tuesday after a series of FBI raids on September 24 against the homes of war protesters in Chicago,...
Iris Scan Coming to Airports, Focusing Terror Hunt on Innocent
“The Homeland Security Department plans to test futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people's eyes in a database and is considered a quicker alternative to fingerprints,”...
Eddie Bernice Johnson Digs Scandal Hole Deeper
Nine-term incumbent Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson appears to be unwittingly sabotaging her own reelection campaign. Despite voters in the Republican primary choosing an energetic African-American pastor (Rev. Stephen Broden)...
Constitutionalist Pastor Stephen Broden’s Political Star Rising
Few seasoned political observers gave Stephen Broden a chance to unseat entrenched leftist Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson from Congress even a few weeks ago. But the national media is...
Overdose: Video Exposé on Bailout Bubble
The independent British exposé film Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis released last spring has been made available to Internet viewers on YouTube for free. The documentary provides a valuable...
Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.6 Percent
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the unemployment rate in the United States increased to 9.6 percent during the month of August. The BLS press release...
Bernanke Whitewashes Fed Responsibility for “Great Recession”
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke largely whitewashed Federal Reserve responsibility for the housing bubble and resultant economic recession in testimony before the congressional Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission September...
The Power of the Internet
When the Founding Fathers adopted the Bill of Rights guaranteeing that “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,” few could possibly...
Obama Claims End to “Combat Operations” in Iraq
President Barack Obama claimed August 31 in an Oval Office address to the nation that “tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended. Operation...
Is America Headed Toward Japanese-style Economic “Lost Decades”?
Just one week after James Bullard of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve Bank released his August 6 paper declaring that “the U.S. is closer to a...
Chinese Central Bank Head Defection Rumor: Communist Power Struggle?
Japanese Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi confirmed that China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan had not defected to the United States, something rumored from Chinese-based sources for several days...
GDP Numbers Sink Again to +1.6% for Second Quarter
Real U.S. Gross Domestic Product increased at a far slower pace than previously reported, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which reported that second quarter GDP...
Is the U.S. Exporting Terrorism?
The CIA is worried that the United States will become known as an exporter of terrorism, according to a recent revelation by the Internet whistleblower site WikiLeaks.org. ...
Housing Bubble Refuses to Re-Inflate
Housing sales dropped by more than 25 percent nationwide in July, according to the National Association of Realtors, after a federal tax credit for first time home buyers expired...