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Another Minimum Wage Hike: But Will It Help?
In another example of turning lemonade into lemons in economically troubled times, the federal minimum wage increased yesterday from $6.55 an hour to...
Hizb ut-Tahrir: KGB-FSB Connection?
As reported in yesterday's posting, the Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir al Islami (The Islamic Liberation Party, hereafter designated by the abbreviation HT), held...
Read moreTourism in Afghanistan?
With the completion of a new Tourist Information Center in the isolated Bamiyan Valley, local officials, residents, foreign donors, and a handful of...
Read moreObama Education Dept. Announces “Race to the Top”
The Department of Education on July 24 featured a live video webcast where President Barack Obama, as the closing speaker, summed up the...
Read moreWhat Obama Doesn’t Know About Healthcare Can Hurt Us
The good news is that President Obama’s healthcare bill has little chance of passing. The bad news is that the bill may pass,...
Read moreLindsey Graham Supports Sotomayor
On Wednesday, July 22, South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham offered his support for the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor,...
Read moreObama Remarks on Gates Arrest Offend Many in Law Enforcement
President Barack Obama expressed some contriteness in an impromptu appearance at a White House briefing earlier today for contending that Cambridge, Mass., police...
Read moreGOP Charts Healthcare Bureaucracy
House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio held a press briefing on July 15 to highlight a chart illustrating the labyrinthine bureaucracy that...
Read moreChina Betrayed Into Communism
Although the mass media present China today as “progressive,” especially after the 2008 Olympics fanfare, it remains among the world’s cruelest regimes. ...
Read moreObama’s Healthcare Arrogance and Constitutional Inversion
President Obama has famously issued a deadline to Congress to pass a healthcare package before the August recess. And those bold marching orders...
Read moreCouncil on Foreign Relations
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama consistently promised Americans “change.” Such promises aren’t new to the voting public. ...
Read moreMom Arrested for Having Fat Son
While America may not have anything resembling Saudi Arabia's religious police, called "The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,"...
Read moreObama Regulatory Pick’s Pro-animal Rights and Anti-First Amendment Activism
It's not surprising that Harvard man Barack Obama wouldn't share late writer William F. Buckley's sentiment that "I would rather be governed by...
Read more“Islamists” Denounce Capitalism, Call for Global Caliphate
A militant Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir al Islami (The Islamic Liberation Party), held a recruiting conference in Chicago on Sunday July 19. Not...
Read moreObama Sells $1 Trillion Health Care Spending Increase as Deficit Control
President Obama has decided to sell a government-directed healthcare system as a deficit control measure. “If we do not control these costs” of...
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