United States
Dangers of an Underreported CPI
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The government uses the CPI to...
Underground Carbon Dioxide
The high price of oil has caused those responsible for energy generation to think increasingly about coal as a fuel source, mainly because...
Read moreWhose Children Are They, Anyway?
How does a state child protective services agency even begin to take nearly 500 children from families living in a peaceful religious community...
Read moreGovernment Is Not the Problem
That “the government is denying us our rights” and even that “the government is oppressing us” are complaints all too commonly heard among...
Read moreEconomic Survival — Not “Stimulus”!
The plan, according to our government’s economic gurus, was to stimulate our economy by sending tax rebates to U.S. taxpayers to spur spending...
Read moreBob Barr Gains Libertarian Party Nod
It took six ballots before Bob Barr, a former four-term Republican Congressman from Georgia, won the nomination of the Libertarian Party at its...
Read moreIs Former Speaker Hastert’s New Lobbyist Job a Turkish Payoff?
The Washington, D.C., lobbying law firm Dickstein Shapiro announced on May 31 that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) is joining the firm...
Read moreMinnesota and Alaska Legislatures Reject Real ID
In May Minnesota and Alaska became the eighth and ninth states whose legislatures have rejected Real ID, joining Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma,...
Read moreThe Great Depression
On October 29, 1929, the world turned upside down. For more than a month, stock prices, which had risen to giddy new levels...
Read morePresident Bush Targets Iran and Syria at Mideast Summit
Is President Bush planning a military strike against Iran (and perhaps Syria too) before leaving office? The administration’s internationalist neoconservative advisers continue to...
Read moreEconomic Forum Pushes Mideast Aid and Free-trade Agreements
President Bush joined over 1,100 participants at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Middle East conference at Sharm el-Sheihk, Egypt, May 18-20. The Palestinian-Israeli...
Read moreBush Plan Rewards Corruption, Shorts Border Protection
In March 2007, President Bush joined Mexico’s President Calderon in Merida, Mexico, for a three-day visit aimed at advancing the economic and political...
Read moreEthics Complaint Filed Against U.S. Attorney in Ramos-Compean Case
Christian Pastor Don Swarthout has filed an ethics complaint with the Texas Bar Association seeking an investigation of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s performance...
Read moreRising Food Costs
From Nouakchott in northwest Africa to Port-au-Prince in the Caribbean, the situation is becoming grimmer by the day. The specter of world hunger,...
Read morePolar Bears Thrive but Interior Dept. Calls Them “Threatened”
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne announced at a May 14 press conference that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and...
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