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Valentine Tribute to Sir William Blackstone
Most people identify February 14 with Valentine's Day, a holiday confined mostly to the red end of the spectrum and filled with chocolate,...
Will Illinois Replay ‘Massachusetts Miracle’?
At least two U.S. Senate candidates appear to have gone through a revolving door before reaching the election starting gate. U.S. Rep. Mark...
Read moreTexas Tea Party Message to GOP: Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls
Proof of the independent spirit that quickens the Tea Party Movement’s adherents can be found in the group’s apparent influence in the Texas...
Read moreCIT Founders and Taxpayers Foot the Bill
It’s official: the U.S. taxpayer is now on the hook for $2.33 billion in TARP funds given to CIT Group back in December...
Read moreObama Copying Bush-era Detention Policies
The neo-conservative Wall Street Journal published two editorials February 9 about the Obama administration's progressive lurch back toward the blatant Bush-era attack on...
Read moreRon Paul’s Opposition in Tea Party Movement
Has the Tea Party Movement (TPM) been hijacked? Originally very much a grassroots uprising against high taxes, out-of-control federal spending, and incumbents not...
Read moreQueen Pelosi’s Royal Sasquatch Carbon Print
Green hypocrisy may be coming back to bite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. While even the most optimistic Republicans don't expect to actually see...
Read moreToyota Under Fire
The unrelenting attacks on Toyota are a metaphor for similar attacks on the free-market economy by its detractors. ...
Read moreAP Removes Flawed Iran Story After Antiwar.com Exposé
AntiWar.com's Jason Ditz has caught the Associated Press acting as stenographer (and even exaggerator) for the neo-con lobby for war with Iran, in...
Read moreObama’s Approval Ratings Continue to Drop
The Rasmussen Reports President Tracking Poll for Thursday February 11 shows that a mere 25 percent of American voters strongly approve of President...
Read moreBlizzards Caused by Global “Warming”?
According to Time magazine's very latest wisdom, the epochal blizzards that have hit the Northeast this winter are a likely consequence of global warming....
Read morePolice Stories: A Non-“Emergency,” Helping a Hungry Family
Police Chief Paula May of King, North Carolina, has been taking a lot of heat this week as a result of a “state...
Read moreChinagate: The Continuing Climategate Saga
As much as the scientists at the center of Climategate wish it would just fade away, new evidence keeps surfacing to fan the...
Read moreGeithner: No Double Dip
When he appeared on ABC News's This Week on February 7, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was quizzed about the risk of the...
Read moreMcCain May Get by With Help From His Friends
Even in John McCain's home state, the former Alaska governor he plucked from national obscurity to be his running mate in 2008 appears...
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