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Freedom Versus Secrecy in Government
They beat him so badly they broke his bones. They cut him with a razor blade while pouring “hot, stinging liquid” in the...
The Pentagon’s Detainee Torture Whitewash
The Pentagon has released a report claiming treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison is now largely in accord with the Geneva...
Read moreBarack Obama: a Modern-day Julius Caesar?
An aged volume of ancient history (Ancient and Medieval History by Hayes and Moon, 1929) describes how some of Julius Caesar's countrymen came...
Read moreWho Will Call Obama Out?
President Barack Obama told a White House gathering of 85 of the nation’s mayors on February 20 that if they don’t spend the...
Read moreHolder: Race Agitate or You’re a “Coward”
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that Americans are not part of the “land of the free and the home of the brave”...
Read moreGoogle Beware of Antitrust Nominee
Google, the internationally popular Internet search engine, is under fire. Christine A. Varney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief...
Read moreNew Hampshire May Adopt Seat Belt Law
Legislators in the “Live Free or Die” state may soon trade a bit of their citizens’ independence for a pot of gold from...
Read moreObama’s Broken Promises at One Month
Recently, Americans have elected a string of lying presidents. First, there was George Bush the elder, who said "Read my lips, no new...
Read moreA Season for Fires — and for Heroes
Each day, thousands of firefighters, police officers, and other emergency personnel put their lives on the line, performing heroic deeds as part of...
Read moreBorder Agents Freed Early
Jailed Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released early from federal prison Tuesday after serving about two years of their...
Read moreAutomakers Seek Another $21.6 Billion
General Motors and Chrysler submitted “financial viability” plans to the U.S. Treasury on February 17 that included combined requests for another $18.6 billion...
Read moreObama’s Homeowner Lifeline Not a Lifeline
“President Barack Obama threw a $75 billion lifeline to millions of Americans on the brink of foreclosure,” the Associated Press reported after the...
Read moreJustice Department’s Torture Inquiry
Attorney General Eric Holder’s office has nearly completed a report that excoriates the three senior Bush administration officials who gave a pseudo-legal imprimatur...
Read moreObama: Buying a Second Term?
On Tuesday, February 18, President Barack Obama achieved one of his first major goals in office by making his $787 billion stimulus plan...
Read moreWho Wants the U.S. to Get LOST?
Like virtually all other treaties flowing out of the United Nations, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is not what...
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