Congresswoman: Drafting Executive Orders “Number One Agenda”
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) told a meeting of the new Congressional Full Employment Caucus on January 29 that the chief job of Congress in the coming months should...
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The War on the Tea Party
The Tea Party coalition in Congress is reviled by both establishment Democrats and Republicans — as well as mass media — but most claims against it are untrue. ...
Obama’s NSA Speech: You Have No Privacy in Your Data
President Obama delivered a wordy and categorical defense of NSA warrantless snooping on Americans' data privacy January 17 in a speech at the Justice Department, reiterating the longtime executive...
Rep. King Says Sen. Paul Tells “Absolute Lies” About NSA Surveillance
In a January 5 Fox News Channel interview, New York Republican Congressman Peter King claimed that Senator Rand Paul tells “absolute lies” with respect to NSA surveillance of Americans,...
Has the Pope Gone Socialist?
Pope Francis denounced capitalism in his Evangelii Gaudium letter to Catholics worldwide, and his statement was a shocker to some laissez-faire economists. ...
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NSA Admits Spying on Congressional Phone Habits
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont wrote to the NSA asking if the agency collects the telephone records of members of Congress, and CNN received a response claiming that it...
Apple Strikes Back at NSA’s “Malicious Hackers”
Apple Inc. executives have labeled leadership of the U.S. government's National Security Agency “malicious hackers” and have vowed to fight against reported NSA software hacks of all of Apple's...
Last Innocent Uighurs Leave Guantanamo Prison
The Eastern European nation of Slovakia agreed to take the last three ethnic Uighur prisoners who have been detained at Guantanamo since 2002, according to the Associated Press December...
NSA Unit “TAO” Seeks “Pervasive” Access to Internet
The German magazine Der Spiegel revealed extraordinary details about the NSA's TAO program, which is tasked with “pervasive” penetration of the Internet and global telephone traffic. This most aggressive...
Establishment Terrified Tea Party Won’t Back Unnecessary Wars
The interventionist establishment is terrified that a reinvigorated Tea Party may prevent new unnecessary wars and foreign military interventions in the coming years, according to an article in Democracy...
N.Y. Judge: NSA Spying “Imperils Civil Liberties of Every Citizen” but “Legal”
Southern District of New York Judge William H. Pauley III declared in a December 27 decision that the NSA surveillance program — which draws in every American's telephone records without...
Snowden Says He “Won” Contest With Obama
After six months of silence, National Security Administration (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden has begun speaking publicly about how he “won” a debate over massive warrantless surveillance of Americans by...
Texas: Cornyn-Stockman U.S. Senate Race
Texas U.S. Senator and Republican Minority Whip John Cornyn will face a wild four-way primary battle, featuring constitutionalist-minded Representative Steve Stockman and two other primary opponents. “The struggle here...
President to Sign Budget Spending/Deficit Increases
President Obama has pledged to sign into law the Murray-Ryan budget deal formally known as the “Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.” The bill would increase discretionary spending limits over...
IRS Seeks to Stamp Out Voter Information
The IRS has proposed new regulations that would carve out an exception to federal rules on tax-exempt organizations, regulations that would essentially ban conservative tax-exempt educational organizations from informing...
Bipartisan Budget Deal: Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend
House Liberty Caucus Chairman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) aptly summed up the bipartisan budget deal being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner in this quip on his Facebook page: “Republicans...
OECD: U.S. Schools Mediocre on Education Compared to World
American high-school students scored "average" in a standardized test created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, when compared with the rest of the developed world. American students...
Pope Francis Denounces Market-based Capitalism
Pope Francis issued an apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) November 24 that explicitly condemned free market economics with an epithet against "trickle-down" economics, causing great gloating...
“Catching Fire”: Best Action Movie So Far This Year
High-quality science fiction/action film Catching Fire burned up the box office in its opening weekend, and — unusually for a sci-fi film — drew a majority female audience. The movie grossed...
GOP “Keep Your Health Plan Act” to the Left of Bill Clinton’s Stance
The House-passed “Keep Your Health Plan Act” would allow millions of Americans whose healthcare plans were cancelled under ObamaCare to renew their plans for one year. But the Republican-backed...