Comparing Cures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, has made available online a...
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Bush Administration Rule Riles Abortion Advocates
The Bush administration plans to enforce a regulation that will prevent healthcare workers who object to abortion from being forced to perform abortion-related...
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iTunes Blocked by “Great Firewall of China”
Chinese users of Apple Computer's popular iTunes music store found themselves unable to access the service during the Olympic Games in Beijing. It...
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Nike and China Chase Blogger
According to the technology news Website Arstechnica, the Nike shoe company has "decided to put the Chinese government's finely-tuned dissident-hunting skills to work...
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Algae May Be an Energy Answer
A modern society such as that in the United States requires personal transportation — cargo trucks, planes, and cars — to make a...
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Senate Races
With an unpopular Republican president presiding over a slumping economy, soaring fuel prices, and two wars in the Middle East, Republicans face an...
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Gorbachev to Receive Liberty Medal
“I think history will be very kind to Gorbachev.” That’s the opinion of 84-year-old ex-president George H.W. Bush concerning former Soviet dictator Mikhail...
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The Growing Tehran-Beijing Axis
Communist China’s ravenous energy appetite has fueled its growing political and economic ties with Iran’s revolutionary government. On July 21, Iran’s Pars Oil...
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Afghan Narcotics Efforts Called Into Question
Thomas Schweich, recently retired principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and coordinator for counternarcotics...
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Champion Family: An Interview With the Scherers
On February 28 of this year, California’s 2nd Appellate Court in Los Angeles ruled that home schooling is illegal in California unless done...
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Antiterrorism Aid to Upgrade Pakistan’s Aging F-16s
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. government has given Pakistan more than $10 billion in military aid to fight terrorism, despite the...
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A Housing Bill of Horrors
In response to the housing crisis, the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 (H.R. 3221) passed in the House (272-152)...
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Running for President of the World?
On July 24, presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Berlin in a stop sandwiched between visits to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, and...
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Laying Down Blame for Our Economic Troubles
After President George W. Bush asked guests at a Republican fundraiser to turn off their cameras — which at least one person failed...
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Nazi Counterfeiters
Imagine a situation in which billions of expertly counterfeited dollars have suddenly flooded our streets and rooftops — literally dropped from airplanes. Some...
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Presidential Front-runners
In the three cover-story articles that are linked to on this page, we profile the top three heavyweights for president. On the Democratic...
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Feds to Imprison Idaho Man for Protecting Homes From Flooding
Lynn Moses is scheduled to be locked up in federal prison on August 6. His crime? Protecting the city of Driggs from flooding....
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Chile’s Social Security Success
Think of the United States as a latter-day Titanic. Super-modern. Super-rich. And heading for an iceberg of colossal proportions. Unthinkable? So, too, was...
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Media Bias in Global-warming Coverage
The media’s adoption of the position that global warming is man-made means they no longer can be trusted to report objectively on the...
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