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How Big Is the Gulf Oil Leak?
Obama Administration officials have this week announced new estimates of total oil leaked from the BP offshore well, capped on July 15, fewer...
Do We Need a Speedy Senate?
Senate Democrats are expressing great frustration with rules that make it difficult to proceed with legislation. Senator McCaskill of Missouri asks: “What in...
Read moreRepealing ObamaCare
Repealing ObamaCare is not an option — it is absolutely essential. It is absolutely essential, that is, if the United States of America...
Read moreHealth Inspectors Target Lemonade Stand
Multnomah County, Oregon, takes food safety seriously. When seven-year-old Julie Murphy opened a lemonade stand at a local fair, the county's inspectors asked...
Read moreSir Thomas More: God’s Servant First
There is, if you will, an arresting scene in A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s magnificent play about Sir Thomas More. The...
Read moreWere “Racists” Responsible for Hartford Massacre?
After Omar Thornton murdered eight people at Hartford Distributors in Connecticut before turning his gun on himself, the major media quickly began looking...
Read moreFeds Grant Permission to Challenge Targeting of U.S. Citizens
On Wednesday, officials from the Department of the Treasury removed a hurdle from the path of two organizations seeking to challenge the constitutionality...
Read moreThe New World of ObamaCare
By now most Americans are familiar with the broad outline of ObamaCare: Everyone is required by law to purchase health insurance, with a...
Read moreVicky Pelaez: Agent of Influence Posing as Journalist
On July 8, Vicky Pelaez disembarked from a charter jet flight in Vienna, Austria — accompanied by U.S. Marshals. Pelaez was the only...
Read moreCharting the Murky Waters of ObamaCare
If you think what you’ve seen of ObamaCare thus far is bad, think again. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. ...
Read moreSenate Clears Way for $26 Billion State Aid Bill
A $26 billion Senate bill, which includes $16.1 billion to help states pay for Medicaid and $10 billion for school districts, cleared a...
Read more“Breathing Pixie Dust” Investing in Russia
"Maybe I'm breathing the same pixie dust, but there's real momentum for this," says Esther Dyson, in a June 25 online article for...
Read moreHomosexual Judge Okays Same-sex Marriage
U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker on August 4 ruled against Proposition 8, a referendum passed by California voters in November 2008 that...
Read moreElena Kagan Approved as 112th Supreme Court Justice
The full Senate voted 63-37 on Thursday, August 5, to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court. With the support of...
Read moreIs America Headed Toward a Japanese-Style Economic “Lost Decades”
Just one week after James Bullard of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve Bank released a paper declaring that “the U.S....
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