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Long-term Healthcare, Long-term Deficits
In a January 2008 debate among Democratic presidential candidates, Barack Obama promised that his healthcare reform plan would be debated publicly, “not negotiating...
Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak Accuses White House of Bribery
Allegations that President Barack Obama offered Congressman Joe Sestak a “high-ranking” cabinet position in order for Sestak to drop out of the Senate...
Read morePeople’s Republic in the Classroom
The People's Republic of China has been providing much of the capital to keep the U.S. government operating through its purchase of American...
Read moreChance for Longshot Candidates
Chris Good of The Atlantic magazine put it plainly: “It was a big weekend for fiscal conservatives and Tea Partiers, not just in...
Read moreNo Habeas Corpus for Bagram Detainees
A federal court of appeals on May 21 ruled that detainees held by the United States at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan...
Read moreConsumer Protection or Consumer Prying?
It seems that every day we learn of some new horror in the financial reform bill currently before Congress. This is not surprising...
Read morePaul: No Repeal of Civil Rights Act
U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky said he supports the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and would “unequivocally” oppose any effort to...
Read moreHave a DNA Sample on the House
“Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database,...
Read moreFreezing the Economy with Global Warming Taxes & Regulation
Will the politicians in Washington succeed in freezing our economy to death under the pretext of saving us from a non-existent global warming...
Read moreStudent Suspended for Wearing Rosary in School
"Beads are beads," Superintendent of Schools Eric Ely said about a student suspended from a Schenectady New York middle school for visibly wearing...
Read moreControversy Over U.S. Base in Okinawa
The British Guardian newspaper on May 21 quoted from a statement made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to reporters in Tokyo that...
Read moreShorebank — Another Example of “Cronyism”
Obama’s connections to less than reputable characters and groups like Goldman Sachs, the Chicago Climate Exchange, “Fannie and Freddie,” former Chicago Governor Rod...
Read moreFinancial Reform Bill in a Nutshell
The Senate Thursday night passed its long-awaited financial reform bill, another critical plank in President Obama’s New Deal-esque agenda to bring the private...
Read moreRush Limbaugh as GOP Kingmaker?
Zev Chafets, writing an op-ed for the New York Times, concluded that radio show host Rush Limbaugh “is the brains and the spirit...
Read moreIllegal Immigrants Camp Out in McCain’s Office
On May 17, four young immigrant students staged a sit-in at Senator John McCain’s Tucson Office. The students were demanding that McCain support...
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