Obama on Offsetting Healthcare Reform Costs
President Obama devoted his June 13 weekly address to outlining cost savings to offset the massive price tag for his proposed healthcare reform....
U.S. Attorney Tries to Kill Book Exposing Terrorism
A major battle over censorship is igniting. Since October 2007, United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been trying to kill a book that...
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Iran Election Aftermath
Three days after Iran's June 12 presidential election, in which the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected with a reported two-thirds' majority, protests...
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Putting Hollywood in the Hallowed
First there were “inclusive language” Bibles, which extended a bizarre form of chivalry to feminists with lexical peculiarities such as “Our Mother/Father who...
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Will the Federal Reserve Be Audited?
It will come as a surprise to many Americans to know: 1) the Federal Reserve is not part of the U.S. government, but...
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Obama’s “Pay As You Go” Deception
President Barack Obama announced last week that he’d like to restore the “pay-as-you-go” budgeting guidelines that Congress imposed upon itself in the 1990s....
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The New Push to Criminalize Dissent
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew its controversial report on “Right Wing Extremism” (PDF) as a terrorism threat back in May, but...
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Chrysler-Fiat Bailout Cost: $870,000 Per Job Saved
Last week’s Chrysler-Fiat alliance cements a total federal commitment of $33.48 billion in federal loans and aid to the Chrysler Corporation, its suppliers,...
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Summers Speaks at CFR on Economic Policy
President Barack Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, Larry Summers, spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on June 12. At the...
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Global Tax on Air Travel Proposed
At a United Nations climate meeting in Bonn, Germany, world leaders proposed a levy on long-haul air travel as a way to raise...
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United Nations Flexes Muscles at North Korea
The United Nations Security Council on June 12 unanimously approved stringent new sanctions against North Korea, in response to Pyongyang's May 25 nuclear...
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Home Bible Study Threatened in Bonito, Calif.
If the Chinese need any help with their crackdown on the Falun Gong religious group, perhaps they should try to recruit San Diego...
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Obama Promotes Healthcare Reform
As part of his efforts to promote healthcare reform, President Barack Obama attended a town hall meeting at Southwest High School in Green...
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Obama Fires Inspector Who Found Misuse
President Barack Obama has fired the inspector general who found misuse of AmeriCorps funds at a nonprofit education group headed by Sacramento Mayor...
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A Primer on the Illuminati
Type?? “Illuminati” into an Internet search engine and you will wind up with an impossible aggregation too numerous and contradictory to be useful....
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