Interest Cost of New Federal Debt Skyrockets
The Obama administration’s efforts to borrow the U.S. economy into prosperity are meeting more and more skepticism on Wall Street as investors in the bond market are fleeing the...
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Abu Ghraib’s Suppressed Rape, Abuse Photos
The Obama administration has often promised a more open and less secretive presidency, but on May 28 Obama was again on both sides of the issue by trying to...
U.S. General: 10 More Years of Iraq War
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told reporters earlier this week that a “reality scenario" for Iraq means “we're going to have 10 Army and Marine units...
Guantanamo Recidivism: Numbers Inflated?
The New York Times published an article on May 20 that divulged that “an unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred...
Rachel Maddow’s Critique of Obama
Left-wing MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow has aired a surprisingly penetrating critique of President Barack Obama’s new prolonged detention, or preventive detention, policy, a policy announced in Obama’s May 21...
Obama: Preventive Detention Is My Policy
President Barack Obama in a May 21 speech outlined a new policy of preventive detention, without trial, for people he suspects might commit crimes in the future. Flanked by...
Shock Jock Mancow Submits to Waterboarding
Chicago radio “shock jock” Erich “Mancow” Muller took his listeners’ advice and voluntarily underwent waterboarding on May 22 and reluctantly concluded it was “torture.” Mancow had earlier pooh-poohed the...
Obama’s Broken Promises: Openness, Ending ‘Military Commissions’
President Barack Obama flagrantly broke two explicit campaign promises last week, namely that he would promote more “openness” in government and end President Bush’s attempt to stage “trials” under...
National Service: “Serving” Political Ends
The nightmarish future of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World is a world where people are bred for servitude to government and hypnotized by repetition for serving a totalitarian...
Education, Policies & Promises
President Obama has outlined an education policy that would accelerate past federal education policies and failures: it would increase the money spent on the federal education bureaucracy while making...
Star Trek: Yes, Boldly Go
First, let me establish my geek street-cred by admitting that this 40-something man did watch the new Star Trek movie solo. Of course, I only did this because I...
Unemployment Smoke and Mirrors
You know the economy is in the tank when officials hail the loss of 539,000 non-farm jobs in the U.S. economy during the month of April as good news....
Conservative Judge Napolitano: Bush Is a Felon
Conservative Fox News Commentator and former district judge Andrew Napolitano said President George W. Bush is likely a felon in a May 8 broadcast over the Fox News Network....
Obama’s Budget: Waste and Giveaways
President Barack Obama revealed new details in his fiscal 2010 budget on May 7, with a statement saying: “We can no longer afford to spend as if deficits don't...
A Conspiracy to Prevent Torture Prosecutions?
Former Bush administratorturetion officials are trying to manipulate the text of Justice Department ethics report from behind the scenes, according to the May 6 Washington Post. But of more...