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Harry Reid Shuts Down Senate After Rand Paul Libya Maneuver
A "sense of the Senate" resolution by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky., left) opposing President Obama's Libyan intervention using Obama's own words as a...
Dramatic Growth of Christian University Has Come With Federal Strings Attached
Liberty University, the Christian evangelical college founded by the late television pastor and pro-family spokesman Jerry Falwell as an extension of his Lynchburg, Virginia congregation...
Read moreRep. Paul Plans Hearing on Fed’s Foreign Bailouts
Constitutionalist Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, is planning to hold hearings about...
Read moreArizona Bans Abortions Based on Gender and Race
In what an abortion research group has called a first in the United States, pro-life Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed legislation outlawing...
Read moreHow Bad Laws Go National: Case Study HB 235
At this writing, a piece of state legislation in Maryland, HB 235, has passed the state House in Annapolis and is poised to...
Read moreFannie, Freddie, and the Feds’ Double Standard on Executive Pay
On February 4, 2009, President Barack Obama signed legislation establishing a $500,000 limit on executive compensation at firms receiving federal aid through the...
Read moreWis. Woman Charged With Death Threat
A woman police suspect of sending a bomb threat to Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin has been charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors....
Read moreRepublicans Look at Defunding the Left
Republicans in Congress, especially in the House of Representatives, are working to curtail federal funding to nonprofit organizations that more or less promote...
Read moreCato Puts Budget-cutting Debate in Perspective
The Cato Institute’s just-announced ad campaign in major newspapers around the country asks rhetorically, “This is leadership?” and then neatly summarizes numerous areas...
Read moreWisconsin Unions Threaten Businesses
After failing to intimidate lawmakers with protests and threats into backing down on the budget-repair bill reining in the collective-bargaining privileges of government...
Read moreSheriff Claims Border Patrol Officials Want Reduced Border Arrests
Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever has said that United States Border Patrol officials have repeatedly asked him to reduce, even stop, arrests of...
Read moreCommunist Party USA Launches Phone Campaign
New recruits of the American Communist Party must now contend with its telephone campaign, wherein Communist Party members pretend to simply be friendly...
Read moreContinuing Revolution Tea Party Rally Raises Questions
Mark Meckler, co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, is the organizer behind Thursday’s “Continuing Revolution” rally at the Capitol, and said that: ...
Read more“Government Shutdown Prevention Act” Provokes Constitutional Lecture by Barney Frank
It's the kind of legislative proposal that makes you pinch yourself and wonder what the House Republican leadership is thinking. The U.S. House...
Read moreThe Bush-Obama-Neocon Doctrine
It’s official: When it comes to foreign policy, Barack Obama’s first term is really George W. Bush’s third. ...
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