Barack Obama: a Modern-day Julius Caesar?
An aged volume of ancient history (Ancient and Medieval History by Hayes and Moon, 1929) describes how some of Julius Caesar's countrymen came...
The Pentagon’s Detainee Torture Whitewash
The Pentagon has released a report claiming treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison is now largely in accord with the Geneva...
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Who Will Call Obama Out?
President Barack Obama told a White House gathering of 85 of the nation’s mayors on February 20 that if they don’t spend the...
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Holder: Race Agitate or You’re a “Coward”
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that Americans are not part of the “land of the free and the home of the brave”...
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Obama’s Canada Visit Spotlights NAFTA
President Barack Obama made his first visit international trip as president on February 19, as he made a seven-hour visit to Canada’s capital...
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U.S. Commander Predicts Long Afghanistan Stay
Gen. David McKiernan, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, predicted on February 18 that the additional 17,000 U.S. troops scheduled to...
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Google Beware of Antitrust Nominee
Google, the internationally popular Internet search engine, is under fire. Christine A. Varney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief...
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New Hampshire May Adopt Seat Belt Law
Legislators in the “Live Free or Die” state may soon trade a bit of their citizens’ independence for a pot of gold from...
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A Season for Fires — and for Heroes
Each day, thousands of firefighters, police officers, and other emergency personnel put their lives on the line, performing heroic deeds as part of...
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Border Agents Freed Early
Jailed Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released early from federal prison Tuesday after serving about two years of their...
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Obama’s Broken Promises at One Month
Recently, Americans have elected a string of lying presidents. First, there was George Bush the elder, who said "Read my lips, no new...
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Automakers Seek Another $21.6 Billion
General Motors and Chrysler submitted “financial viability” plans to the U.S. Treasury on February 17 that included combined requests for another $18.6 billion...
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Obama’s Homeowner Lifeline Not a Lifeline
“President Barack Obama threw a $75 billion lifeline to millions of Americans on the brink of foreclosure,” the Associated Press reported after the...
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Could Bush Be Prosecuted?
Two recently published books address the possibility of prosecuting George W. Bush and top Bush administration officials for crimes committed while in office....
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Justice Department’s Torture Inquiry
Attorney General Eric Holder’s office has nearly completed a report that excoriates the three senior Bush administration officials who gave a pseudo-legal imprimatur...
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