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Congress Votes to Raise Debt Limit
The Senate voted on December 24 to allow the federal government to borrow an additional $290 billion, thereby increasing the total federal debt...
Ben Stein Says Ron Paul Uses “Anti-Semitic Arguments”
Former actor-turned-economic and political advisor Ben Stein claimed Ron Paul was using an “anti-Semitic argument” when Congressman Paul argued the United States should...
Read moreNigerian with al Qaeda Ties Attempts Airline Terrorist Attack
As the Airbus 300 from Amsterdam packed with holiday travelers descended toward Detroit on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab returned to his seat...
Read moreInside Goldman
When the New York Times announced in their lead article on the front page of their Christmas Eve edition that the Securities and...
Read moreCadillac Tax: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise?
On page 1,980 of the recently passed Senate health care overhaul readers will find the mandates regarding the so-called “Cadillac Tax.” Simply, the...
Read moreWill Obama Nominate Napolitano for the Supreme Court?
Evidence is mounting that Obama will have another opportunity to appoint a justice to the Supreme Court when Justice Stevens retires next summer....
Read moreRachel Maddow Exposes Her Youth, Inexperience, and Political Correctness
Rachel Maddow is too young and too inexperienced to know much about the matters she referenced in her December 2009 burst of political...
Read moreDeficit “Hawks” Face Hypocrisy Charge
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in the 19th Century. Small minds, at least those...
Read moreObama Names Schmidt Chief of Cybersecurity
President Barack Obama on December 22 named Howard Schmidt, an Internet security expert with experience in both the private sector and government, as...
Read moreHistoric Christmas Eve Vote Marks Passage of Senate Healthcare Bill
Apropos of the unusual Christmas Eve vote, the red “nay” lights and the green “aye” lights on the Senate floor flashed in the...
Read moreForgotten Influences of the Founders
Our own Founding Fathers were convinced, and history has proven them prescient, that they were building a new and everlasting republic that would...
Read moreAirlines Face Hefty Fine for Delays
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced on December 21 that beginning this spring the federal government is going to impose hefty fines on airlines...
Read moreHealthcare Vote Scheduled for Christmas Eve
“Something’s going to have to give,” are the words used by Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) in describing the shotgun wedding about to take...
Read moreAmerican Czars
It may be considered a strange case of “Back to the Future,” halfway around the world. Twenty years after the tearing down of...
Read moreAngel Removed From Christmas Tree
At the insistence of Irv Sutley, a lifelong atheist and a 65-year-old disabled Marine, Sonoma County, California, has removed the angel from on...
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