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Tenth Amendment Summit Offers Solutions
"This is real hope," one enthusiastic attendee told this writer during the First Annual Tenth Amendment Summit held in Atlanta, Georgia, February 25-26....
Gov. Rick Perry: Conservative When It Counts?
Tomorrow Republicans in the Lone Star State will go to the polls to select their party’s representative in the gubernatorial contest to be...
Read moreSluggish Spending and the Non-Recovery
Coming in the immediate aftermath of news that the sale of new homes dropped in January to its lowest point in 50 years,...
Read moreNew U.S. Nuclear Policy in the Works
Citing White House aides and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, the New York Times reported on February 28 that President Obama is...
Read moreN.Y. Governorship Scandal Hits Again: Paterson Will Not Run
The governor had been steadfast in his determination to capture a full term at the ballot box, despite low poll numbers and growing...
Read moreObama Signs Patriot Act Extension
President Obama signed a one-year extension of three provisions of the USA Patriot Act Saturday February 27. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.)...
Read moreSeaWorld’s Response to the Tragedy
The drowning death of Dawn Brancheau by a killer whale at Orlando’s SeaWorld on Wednesday February 24 was an unimaginable tragedy. It has...
Read moreReport Finds College Students Fail Basic Civics Test
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it” is one of the most oft-quoted aphorisms of Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Irish-born...
Read moreWhy Are Young Americans Less Committed to Faith?
A recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life seems to validate concerns among Christian leaders that younger...
Read moreCongressional Democrats Nix Anti-torture Measure
House Democrats have caved in to Republican pressure, removing an anti-torture provision from the Fiscal 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act (H.R. 2701). “The controversial...
Read moreHouse Republicans Call for Bigger Deficits Than Obama
An alternative budget proposal submitted by Congressman Paul Ryan (Wis.), the House Budget Committee's Republican ranking member, would increase the federal budget deficit...
Read moreObama’s “Charms” failed to Woo GOP at Summit
In an attempt to paint Senator John McCain as “bitter” over his defeat in the 2008 presidential election, President Obama was blunt during...
Read moreMost See Government as Threat to Rights
Ronald Reagan once said that the nine scariest words in the English language are “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”...
Read moreSenate Passes 15 Billion ‘Jobs’ Bill
As President Barack Obama’s jobless “recovery” is showing more and more signs of being no recovery at all, the Senate has voted another...
Read moreNebraska’s Fetal Pain Bill
The Nebraska Legislature is considering legislation that would ban abortions performed at least 20 weeks into the pregnancy of a mother. The proposal,...
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