A Senate Push for a Public-private Health Insurance Option
As the first snow of the season fell on Washington, D.C., there was a flurry of activity inside the Capitol Building, as well....
A Look at Continental Congress 2009
During the final quarter of the 18th century, as tensions grew between England and her colonies here in America, the legislatures of 12...
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What Will Greenhouse Gas Reductions Do?
Item: The Obama administration must make a commitment on carbon-emission reductions, insisted the Washington Post on November 19. The House of Representatives, commented...
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Australians Say “No” to Copenhagen
Australian delegates to the UN climate-change conference have arrived empty-handed in Copenhagen since last week their parliament defeated cap-and trade legislation. The surprising...
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The Unconstitutional Healthcare Bill
On November 7, at the end of a 12-hour debate, the House of Representatives passed the implausibly named “Affordable Healthcare for America Act.”...
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Copenhagen Summit Opens Amid Climategate Fallout
As the summit on global warming opens in frigid Copenhagen, climate alarmists at the United Nations and within various national governments — along...
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Government Funding for Nonexistent Jobs
John Stossel recently reported on the failure of federally subsidized job-training programs in Minnesota. Using federal stimulus dollars, the Summit Academy stated that...
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Sarbanes-Oxley and the Separation of Powers
On Monday, December 7, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments concerning Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). ...
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Nancy Pelosi Supports Global Tax on Stock Transactions to Fund Next Stimulus Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the Will Rogers of big government: She never met a tax she didn’t like. Her...
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Pearl Harbor: A True Day of Infamy
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But was the surprise attack really a "surprise"? The...
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Obama’s Afghan Troop Surge for 100 al-Qaeda
President Barack Obama’s December 1 speech at West Point was meant to justify sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan at a cost...
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Rosenberg Sees China Causing Gold to Hit $2,600
Gold has recently topped the $1,200 per ounce mark, but analyst David Rosenberg sees it going as high as $2,623 per ounce in...
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Obama’s Science Czar in Climategate Hot Seat
President Obama's science adviser faced intense questioning from House Republicans this week in a hearing on Capitol Hill. At issue was the role...
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Gore cancels Copenhagen speech in aftermath of Climate-gate
For years, former Vice President Al Gore has foisted his environmental jeremiads on the world, traveling by private jet to calling upon the...
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Copenhagen Conference Has Massive Carbon Footprint
The veracity of proponents of the theory of man-made climate change is very much in doubt in the days leading up to the...
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