United States
Jobs Up, Unemployment Rate Up
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics announced good and bad economic news on May 7: The economy added 290,000 jobs in April...
Senate Financial Reform Bill: More Bailouts & Fed Power
Senate Democrats beat back a Republican alternative amendment to Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd's Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (S. 3217) and...
Read moreKrauthammer Favors “Path to Citizenship” for Illegals
Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the...
Read moreThe ObamaCare Mandate: Constitutional Tax?
In a now famous admission of disregard for our nation’s founding document, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when asked where in...
Read moreGulf Oil Spill Opportunists
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to parlay the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion and ongoing leak into a significant increase...
Read moreClubbed With a Cliché: Tea Party Racists?
Tea Party groups around the country are facing an all too familiar attack: racism. The evidence presented is highly circumstantial. A disproportionately large...
Read moreStealing the American Dream
John McManus, publisher for The New American magazine and President of the John Birch Society, launched a speakers tour on Sunday April 5,...
Read morePresident Obama’s Call for Civility: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
On May 1 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during his commencement address to the University of Michigan, President Barack Obama made the following suggestion...
Read moreNY Car Bomb Suspect Keeps on Talking
On May 5, Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old son of a retired senior Pakistani vice air marshal, waived his right to a speedy arraignment,...
Read moreNational Day of Prayer Clouded by Controversy
Today is the National Day of Prayer, a day set aside for silent reflection and prayer in a variety of forms. However, this...
Read moreManipulation of Precious-metals Market Under Fire
The banking cartel’s manipulation of supposedly “free” markets is coming under increasing fire as a broad coalition of activists, legislators, and non-profit groups...
Read morePoliticians Plead: The Fifth Amendment Does Not Apply to Suspected Terrorists
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads, in part: “No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a...
Read more“Teacher Employment” Bill Headed for Senate Vote
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told Congressional Quarterly May 4 that a Senate floor vote on his Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010,...
Read moreCEI Files Complaint Against Deceptive GM Ad
The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on May 4, saying that General Motors is misleadingly claiming in...
Read moreObama Administration Plans to Seize 401(k) Retirement Accounts
One aspect of a new and improved federal regulatory scheme is the seizure of 401(k) retirement plans and the subsequent government-administered ...
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