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Reid Concedes to Republicans on Spending Bill
Yesterday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reluctantly pulled the 1,900 page $1.1 trillion omnibus bill laden with earmarks that would have funded...
Surviving Nuclear Attack: “Duck and Cover” Is Back
Almost three decades have passed since the film The Atomic Cafe (1982) offered a cynical, and yet vacuous, denigration of the efforts of...
Read moreArmy Birther Sentenced to Military Prison
On Thursday, an army doctor who disobeyed deployment orders because he questioned President Obama’s eligibility to serve as Commander in Chief was sentenced...
Read moreJudge Hints at Ruling Against Health Law
A Florida federal judge hinted on Thursday at the possibility of becoming the second judge to strike down the individual mandate provision of...
Read moreSenate May Have Enough Votes to Repeal DADT
On Wednesday, December 15, the House of Representatives voted 250 to 175 to repeal the military’s long-standing policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”...
Read moreJustice Scalia to Teach Bachmann’s Constitutional Seminar
Republican Representative Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota announced in July that she would be forming a Tea Party Caucus. With the creation of the...
Read moreSupreme Court Set to Hear Challenge to Arizona Campaign Finance Law
As the October session came to an end after Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment challenge to Arizona’s controversial...
Read moreFlorida Gunman Provokes Gun-control Debate
It was bound to happen. The dramatic story of a Florida gunman opening fire on the Panama City school board is now being...
Read moreMassachusetts Officials: Dead North Carolina Teen Fell From Plane
Authorities in Massachusetts have been investigating the death of a Charlotte, North Carolina teenager, whose shirtless, shoeless, traumatized body was found last November...
Read moreChallenges to ObamaCare Likely Headed to Supreme Court
In Federalist #84, Alexander Hamilton asked, "For why declare that things shall not be done, which there is no power to do?" To...
Read moreFacebook Founder Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
Twenty-six-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking website Facebook, has been selected as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. Facebook,...
Read moreDo We Need Four Political Parties?
Is America destined to move from a two party system to a three or four party system? Is it moving towards a political...
Read moreRocker Bon Jovi Named to Obama Advisory Council
There is bad news and good news in the front offices of the rock 'n' roll franchise known as Bon Jovi. The bad...
Read moreApple iPhone Application Debate Continues
At the start of this month, Apple’s Application Store removed a religious iPhone application called the “Manhattan Declaration,” in response to demands from...
Read moreThey Still Hate Senator McCarthy
The Southern Poverty Legal Center, which might be interested in innocent Americans enduring state-sponsored sexual harassment in airports or the coercion on college...
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