FCC to Officially Scrap Fairness Doctrine
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Wednesday that they are abandoning the so-called Fairness Doctrine, an FCC policy introduced in 1949 which requires...
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Leon Panetta and the Institute for Policy Studies
On Thursday, June 9, the U.S. Senate conducted confirmation hearings on current CIA Director and former U.S. Congressman Leon E. Panetta (D-Calif.), who...
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House Passes Weak Libya War Resolution; Defeats One Ending War
The Republican leadership in the House of Representatives managed to pull President Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire with regard to Libya,...
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House Committee Votes to Slash Farm Subsidies
Last week, the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives approved a proposal to cut farm subsidies as a part of a larger...
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House Leadership Protects Obama’s Illegal Libyan War
Who says bipartisanship is dead? When it comes to unconstitutional wars, the leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties sing from the...
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Government Uses “Blunt Instrument” to Extract Taxes
Rep. Rick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), chairman of the Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, told the Washington Business Journal last week that “instead...
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Symbolic Debt Ceiling Bill Voted Down
As expected, the bill to raise the federal debt ceiling that House Republicans brought to a quick vote today failed overwhelmingly. The bill,...
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Democrats’ Tax Dreams a Nightmare for America
Remember the halcyon days of the late 1970s, when inflation, interest, and unemployment rates all soared into double digits? Back then the top...
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Navy Names Ship After Far-Left “Organizer” Cesar Chavez
The U.S. Navy is under fire once again, for its decision to name a vessel after radical left-wing activist César Chávez. Officials said...
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Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection Looms
Tuesday’s hearing of the House Oversight Committee gave Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) a chance to vent, and witness Elizabeth Warren, President Obama’s Special...
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ATF Boss Threatened with Contempt Charge
As a congressional investigation of the Obama administration’s “Project Gunrunner” scandal proceeds, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif., picture, left) is threatening ATF Acting Director...
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Sen. Grassley: ATF Provided Guns to Cartels
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice are under increasing pressure after getting caught providing misleading...
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Congress Considers Bill to Extend Immigration Rights to Homosexual Couples
Late last week Democrats in the House of Representatives reintroduced a measure that would dramatically change current immigration law and provide immigration rights...
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House Approves Ryan Budget; Conservatives Pan Plan for 20 Yrs of Deficits
House Republicans passed the Ryan budget proposal April 15 by a 235-193 vote, with every Democrat voting against the measure and only four...
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CBO Finds 37.5B in “Cuts” Were Gimmicks, 2011 Budget Increases Spending
The compromise fiscal 2011 budget resolution Congress passed April 14, which awaits President Obama's signature, boasted some $38 billion in "cuts" that were just gimmicks and...
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