United States
13 Dead in Shooting at Texas Army Base
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, on November 5 went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. The ensuing gunfire...
Unemployment Rate Shoots Past 10 Percent
The unemployment rate shot from 9.8 percent in September to 10.2 percent in October, the highest it has been since 1983, the Labor...
Read moreAARP & AMA Support House Healthcare Bill
AARP, the 40-million-member senior-citizen lobbying group, and the American Medical Association, representing 250,000 physicians, on November 5 threw their support behind the healthcare...
Read moreConstitutional Healthcare
The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was apparently dumbfounded recently when a reporter asked about the constitutional authority for requiring people...
Read moreObamacare and the Demise of Federalism
By the time of the founding, the definition of federalism was already so firmly settled and so deeply imbedded in the American understanding...
Read moreDangerous Connections: NBA and the KGB
The recent public assassination in Moscow of Russian oligarch and sports team owner Shabtai Kalmanovich should give NBA promoters pause regarding their headlong...
Read moreObama Says Native Americans Not Forgotten
President Barack Obama on November 5 met with Native American tribal leaders at what was dubbed the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The...
Read moreHealthcare, Sausages, and the Constitution
Two things that people should never see being made, Otto Von Bismarck once quipped, were sausages and laws. The Founding Fathers intended to...
Read moreMassachusetts Gun Storage Law Heading to State’s Highest Court
If Charleton Heston had lived in Massachusetts, then his rousing warning regarding his right to gun ownership would have read: “You can have...
Read moreThe Healthcare Bill’s Sops to the Mental-health Industry
Most people (including Members of Congress and the press) won’t read the nearly 2,000-page healthcare bill (“Affordable Health Care for America Act”: H.R....
Read morePatriot Act Vote Scheduled for Nov. 5
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider a bill on November 5 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation believes is this year’s “best...
Read moreObama Bribes States With Education Grants
President Barack Obama on November 4 waved $5 billion of federal grant money under the noses of state education officials to entice them...
Read moreMaine Rejects Same-sex Marriage
As Maine goes, so stands Rhode Island. Until yesterday, tiny Rhode Island was the only one of the six New England states to...
Read moreSmall Government Conservatism Has Strong Ballot Showing
The 2009 elections brought complicated results: Republicans swept both Governor's races, Democrats won both congressional races, and incumbents swept mayoral races. But advocates of small...
Read moreConservative Party’s Hoffman Loses Plurality to Democrat Owens in NY Congressional Race
Democrats narrowly won a plurality in New York's 23rd Congressional District Tuesday, a District that hadn't been held by a Democrat in more...
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