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Obama’s Order to Close Guantanamo: 19 Months and Counting
Two days after taking the oath of office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order stating that “the detention facilities at Guantanamo …...
The Disease of Faction and the Constitutional Cure
Earlier in the week, The New American reported that despite his inaugural promise to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay “as soon as...
Read moreNevada Senate Race: Washington Clout versus Hometown Values
During the last sixteen years, the leaders of majority parties in the houses of Congress have been defeated twice: Speaker Foley in Washington...
Read moreHot Time at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern
Just after midnight on Saturday, July 24, at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern — “Where everyone is treated like a regular” — a very...
Read moreNullify Now!
In the face of the growing behemoth known as the American federal government, states and individual citizens are rediscovering the Tenth Amendment as...
Read moreA Constitutional Right To Lie?
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has long been known as the most left-wing federal court in America, its decisions descending into...
Read moreDrug War Costs Elderly Woman Her Life and Taxpayers $4.9 Million
On November 21, 2006, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston of Atlanta suddenly found herself the victim of a home invasion. When several armed men burst...
Read moreABA Advocates Federal Legalization of Homosexual Marriage
Constitutionalists are expressing their disappointment, and even outrage, over the decision by the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association (ABA) to...
Read moreBlack Hole Eruption Compared to Volcano in Iceland
A giant black hole is putting on a spectacular show and scientists at NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory have captured the action. The black...
Read moreCommand Centers and Our Liberties
The natural yen of our government to collect information on its citizens and to create command centers to review that information has continued...
Read moreNecessary and Proper and Treasonous: All in a Day’s Work
Few days over the course of the summer of 1787 were as historically relevant as August 20. Time was dragging on and the...
Read moreConjuring Magic To Cover States’ Debts: Fiscal Reality Sets In
The first warning about the possible bankruptcy of the town of Vallejo, California, was reported by the Associated Press on February 28, 2008,...
Read moreHow Bad Will the Economy Get?
More tough times lie ahead, according to a report on the state of the economy just released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)....
Read morePixie Dust, Treason, & Spies
“Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama will try to jump-start economic links this week as Russia’s president travels to Silicon Valley and Washington, building...
Read moreAll the News That’s Fit to Print?
The global news agency AFP reported recently that we don’t trust the media any more. Do tell. ...
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