United States

Heading for Home or … Amnesty

Here’s a question many Members of Congress prefer to ignore: How many times do you have to be told “No amnesty for illegal...

John F. McManus March 18, 2010

Study on “Homegrown Terrorism” Encourages Greater Surveillance

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 17, 2010

The Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS) recently published a report entitled “A Growing Terrorist Threat? Assessing ‘Homegrown’ Extremism in the United States.”...

Bearing Arms: A Right … and a Duty?

Bruce Walker March 17, 2010

The Massachusetts Judicial Council ruled on March 10 that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does not apply to state governments and,...

Survey Indicates Doctors’ Opposition to Obamacare

Raven Clabough March 17, 2010

Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Medicus Firm recently conducted a survey showing that one third of all practicing physicians...

Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World

Selwyn Duke March 17, 2010

First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing...

Texas Textbook Massacre

Rebecca Terrell March 17, 2010

New textbook standards approved in Texas are poised to revolutionize public-school curricula nationwide, and liberal educators are furious. Every year the Texas State...

States Say Enough Is Enough, Tell Feds to Butt Out

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 17, 2010

Nothing gives this writer purer pleasure than to report on the multitude of states’ rights initiatives being passed by state legislatures across our...

Social Security Trust Fund in Red, Drawing on Federal IOUs

Thomas R. Eddlem March 16, 2010

The March 15 Associated Press story was blunt: "For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it...

Nanotech Energy Source Discovered

Selwyn Duke March 16, 2010

Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that...

Healthcare Debate: The Real March Madness

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 16, 2010

In the spirit of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, President Obama and his starting line up are running a full court press this...

Mount Vernon Statement Shoptalk

March 16, 2010

Our country is in trouble. Ongoing military commitments, enormous indebtedness, high unemployment, failing schools, citizen restlessness, and a President and Congress trying to...

Social Security’s Nest Egg is Officially Cracked

Bob Adelmann March 16, 2010

In a misleading article by Associated Press that IOUs “stashed away” in an investment account in Parkersburg, West Virginia, were going to have to...

New York Times Misses the Mark on Second Amendment

James Heiser March 15, 2010

A recent New York Times op-ed is proving to be simply the latest in a long string of such pieces proving that the...

Court Rules Against Autism-Vaccine Link

Alex Newman March 15, 2010

A special United States “vaccine court” dismissed three cases Friday that were attempting to establish a link between mercury-containing immunizations and autism, prompting...