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ObamaCare and the Commerce Clause
As I wrote yesterday in the introduction to this series on ObamaCare, the aim of the survey is not to identify this or...
International Conference of Scientists to Challenge Global-warming Alarmism
The Heartland Institute's fourth International Conference on Climate Change is scheduled to take place in Chicago May 16-18 and will feature more than...
Read moreEPA Increases Automobile Costs While Seizing Legislative Power
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson attracted international attention when, having apparently become bored waiting for the messy process of representative government to...
Read moreWarning: The Danger of People
In a recent article entitled “Say it loud: I’m childfree and I’m proud,” author Lisa Hymas suggests that the population of the United...
Read moreObama Pressures His “Home Country” Kenya to Legalize Abortion
"President Barack Obama wasted little time after his election in promoting abortion abroad by overturning the Mexico City Policy and forcing Americans to...
Read moreObamaCare: An Introduction
On March 23, President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. With his signature, the President obliterated the...
Read moreArctic Ice Expanding, Not Retreating
At last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, former Vice President Al Gore shrilly proclaimed that “The entire polar ice cap ......
Read moreCensus Bureau Encouraging Homosexuals Couples to Identify as “Married”
The U.S. Census Bureau is ramping up its efforts to make sure homosexual couples are counted as “families” in the 2010 census, even...
Read moreObama and Medvedev Sign Arms Treaty
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on April 8, described by the British Times...
Read moreStrategic Defaults: Morality vs. Reality
According to RealtyTrac, nearly 3 million foreclosures were filed in 2009. And with almost 10 percent of all mortgages now delinquent nationally, those...
Read moreThe Media’s War on Tea Party “Extremism”
We live in an era in which more and more people, some of them never before involved in politics, are waking up. They...
Read moreTaxes: Are the Rich Paying Their Fair Share?
Buried in Title X — Strengthening Quality, Affordable Health Care For All Americans, Subtitle H — Provisions Relating to Title IX, Section 10907...
Read moreSenate Looks to Ban Trans Fats From School Cafeterias
In March of this year, the Senate Agriculture Committee marked up legislation that calls for healthier choices on school cafeteria menus. Now New...
Read moreTensions Rise Over Trade With China
With Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Beijing today and President Obama planning to meet with Chinese Premier Hu Jintao in Washington next week,...
Read moreLatest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers
Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech...
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