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Financial Reform: Pressing On, Regardless
Last month, Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) pushed back against the Obama administration’s plans to create a “standalone” Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and some...
Children Directing Planes at JFK: Why it is a Big Deal
By now we’ve all heard about the air-traffic controller who allowed his kids direct airplanes at John F. Kennedy Airport last month. Yes,...
Read moreU.S. Postal Service: Time to Free the Mail
When U.S. Postmaster General John Potter recommended eliminating Saturday delivery service in order to save money, he was merely responding to the postal...
Read moreDebra Medina Defiant in Defeat
As Debra Medina sat with her husband in their hometown campaign office in Wharton, Texas, watching the numbers come in, she knew that...
Read moreUN plans $45 trillion Cost for “Going Green”
If the United Nations has its way, the collapse of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will have been little more than a...
Read moreBailout Baloney — Insurance
On Wednesday, February 10, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed confidence that every cent of the Federal Reserve’s exposure to insurance giant AIG...
Read moreObama Healthcare Redux: One Way or Another
President Barack Obama does not know how to take a hint. Despite Scott Brown’s remarkable victory in the special senatorial election in Massachusetts...
Read moreOklahoma Offensive: Restoring Good Govt
The price of freedom is… If you know the ending of the above phrase, and you know that it means more than watching...
Read moreObama Administration Set to Seize Millions of Acres in the West
Not satisfied with placing banks, insurance companies, and the car industry under the control of the federal government, President Obama has turned his...
Read moreStates Act to Block Federal Healthcare Mandates
James Madison, known to history as the Father of the Constitution, reckoned that “the first and most natural attachment of the people will...
Read moreGlobal Warming Causes Blizzards. Really?!
Item: “There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to...
Read moreIMF Seeks New Mandate, Global Currency
International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn made a series of headline-grabbing statements late last week, calling for new supervisory authority over world financial...
Read moreTo Test or Not to Test? That is the Multiple-choice Question
Standardized testing is a necessary evil. Opponents argue that standardized tests force teachers to “teach to the test,” and as an educator, I...
Read moreAtheists Are at It Again!
Christians at a Texas College Campus find themselves in a battle between good and evil as atheists once again “peacefully” express their opposition...
Read more2010 Census: Much More than Simple Enumeration
The Census Bureau is facing an uphill battle to obtain all the information being demanded in the short form arriving in the mail...
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