Utah GOP Gives “Bailout” Bennett the Boot.
Sen. Robert F. Bennett of Utah has become the first congressional incumbent to be defeated this year. Given that distinct and dubious honor...
Finance Reform
With a congressional battle brewing over what is being touted as the biggest attempt at financial regulatory reform since the Great Depression, most...
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$Trillion Bailout of Euro, Greece Shows Need to Audit the Fed
The timing of the sellout by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last Thursday, May 6, on legislation to audit the Federal Reserve could not...
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Obama: Stuck on Begrudge
Off the teleprompter for a few seconds while stumping for financial reform recently in Illinois, President Obama had this to say about money,...
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Krauthammer Favors “Path to Citizenship” for Illegals
Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the...
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Jobs Up, Unemployment Rate Up
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced good and bad economic news on May 7: The economy added 290,000 jobs in April...
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Senate Financial Reform Bill: More Bailouts & Fed Power
Senate Democrats beat back a Republican alternative amendment to Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd's Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (S. 3217) and...
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The Anti-government Epithet
Though President Obama did not actually hurl the “anti-government” epithet in his May 1 Ann Arbor speech, his meaning was unmistakable and the...
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No Inconsequential Matter
Are socialistic policies ever legitimate in a constitutional republic? French Philosopher Frederic Bastiat provides a fit answer in his penetrating classic, “The Law:”...
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Israel Still Averse to UN Plan for Nuclear-free Zone
Reuters news reported on May 7 that Israel does not plan to review its nuclear policies, despite efforts by the United States and...
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The ObamaCare Mandate: Constitutional Tax?
In a now famous admission of disregard for our nation’s founding document, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when asked where in...
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Gulf Oil Spill Opportunists
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to parlay the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion and ongoing leak into a significant increase...
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Clubbed With a Cliché: Tea Party Racists?
Tea Party groups around the country are facing an all too familiar attack: racism. The evidence presented is highly circumstantial. A disproportionately large...
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Stealing the American Dream
John McManus, publisher for The New American magazine and President of the John Birch Society, launched a speakers tour on Sunday April 5,...
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President Obama’s Call for Civility: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
On May 1 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during his commencement address to the University of Michigan, President Barack Obama made the following suggestion...
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