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Pentagon Completes “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Study
The Pentagon finally completed its year-long study of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy yesterday. While some assert that the results of...
Lame-duck Accomplishments and Upcoming Agenda
Given the quantity of items planned for this year’s lame-duck session, it is imperative to keep up with the items addressed in the...
Read moreTSA: Groping Grandmas but Giving Arms Traffickers, Terrorists & Drug Dealers a Pass
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is spending billions of dollars to install naked full-body scanners at airports, and millions of Americans are facing...
Read moreJudge Dismisses Liberty University Lawsuit Against ObamaCare
You win some; you lose some. In October, a federal judge in Michigan dismissed a lawsuit challenging ObamaCare’s individual mandate, arguing that Congress...
Read moreSmithsonian Exhibit Outrage: Asking the Wrong Questions
Although the “Hide/Seek” exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution opened on October 30th, it didn’t start generating national outrage until CNS News published a...
Read moreNews Baron Murdock Set to Launch Daily iPad Paper
Media mogul Rupert Murdock, whose News Corp. owns and operates scores of daily newspapers, including such standards as the Times of London, the...
Read moreDay 1: Everybody Wants Something at Cancun’s Climate Summit
Amid low expectations and widespread disillusion, thousands of “climate dignitaries” from around the world descended on the Mexican resort city of Cancun for...
Read morePassed Food Safety Bill Provides Government Control
After more than one year of consideration, the United States Senate passed the Food Safety Modernization Act today by a vote of 73-25....
Read moreSorry, Charlie, No Reprimand for You
Embattled Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel wants his sentence for various deeds of misconduct reduced from censure to reprimand, holding that censures are only...
Read moreGroups Continue to Urge for Expiration of Ethanol Subsidies
Ethanol subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, and numerous organizations are asking Congress not to take action and...
Read moreTwo Versions of DREAM Act Await Vote
Passage of the DREAM Act is a top priority for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and with two new versions of the DREAM...
Read moreFederal Judge Blocks Oklahoma Sharia Law Ban
Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange of the Federal District Court in Oklahoma City granted a preliminary injunction on November 30 that blocked an Oklahoma constitutional...
Read moreBush and Obama: Standards & Similarities
According to Alex Barker writing in a November 9 blog entry for Britain’s Financial Times, President George W. Bush once confided to several...
Read morePortland: Another Terrorist Plot Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Instigation?
On Friday, November 26, Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, parked a van loaded with what he thought was a bomb near Pioneer Courthouse...
Read moreCongress’ December To-do List
With one month left until the end of the year, Congress has quite a bit with which to contend. Ranging from the unemployed,...
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