Bias in Media Coverage
In June 2000 global-warming prophesier Ross Gelbspan lamented, “Over the last seven years, the fossil-fuel lobby has mounted an extremely effective campaign of...
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IndyMac Bank’s Ominous Failure
As of Tuesday, July 15, crowds outside branches of the failed California bank IndyMac were getting ugly. On the second business day after...
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Guantanamo Interrogations Based on Communist Chinese Methods
A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing held on June 17 made public several documents from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,...
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Former Senator Jesse Helms Passes Away on July 4
On July 4 of this year, an old patriot passed away. Former five-term North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, retired since 2002, finally succumbed...
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Paulson-Bernanke Plan Would Give the Fed Broad New Powers
On Thursday, July 10, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on...
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Visa Waiver for Bulgaria Is Good for U.S. Security?
In a June 18 White House meeting with Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, President Bush announced that “today because of the Prime Minister’s...
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States, Local Governments Dealing With Illegal-alien Crisis
In the absence of proper federal immigration enforcement, state and local governments have been forced to take action. Escondido, California, in northern San...
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Obama, McCain Address La Raza
While Representatives Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul, and Duncan Hunter were in the presidential race, immigration and border security were pushed to center stage....
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Homeland Security Is Helping States to Implement Real ID
In the face of a widespread rebellion among the states against the unfunded Real ID mandate, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
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Oklahoma House Affirms Sovereignty Over State Powers
On March 13 the Oklahoma House passed House Joint Resolution 1089, sponsored by Rep. Charles Key and Sen. Randy Brogdon, “claiming sovereignty under...
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Supreme Court Rules Against D.C. Gun-control Law
On June 26, by handing down a 5-4 decision in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed...
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Supreme Court Decision on Guantanamo Detainees
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 12, struck down major portions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA),...
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Global-warming Doomsayer Wants to Try Oil Company Execs
James Hansen, an atmospheric scientist and the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has long been the most prominent scientific advocate...
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Warrantless-search Legislation Moves Forward
The bill amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would allow the government to engage in massive collection of American citizens’ communications without...
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The Bravest of the Brave
We are the land of the free for one reason and one reason only — because we are the home of the brave....
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