Congressional Ethics an Oxymoron?
USA Today seems surprised at the number of ethics cases making headlines recently, referring to the trials being faced by Representatives Charles Rangel...
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A Taxing Proposal for Online Retailers
There are many positive features about shopping online, including convenience, selection, and speed. There is also the fact that a customer doesn’t have...
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Financial Reform: Expanding Hubris, Limiting Freedom
When the House passed the 2,319-page Dodd-Frank financial reform bill by a vote of 237-192, all it did was confirm for many the...
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Third “Freedom Index” for Current Congress
The just-published (July 5) issue of The New American includes our third congressional scorecard (pdf) on the 111th Congress. The scorecard, entitled...
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Federal Flood Insurance Drowning in Red Ink
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is drowning in red ink — $19 billion in red ink, to be exact, according to Fox...
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Senate Considers Making the President King of Cyberspace
The Internet is a wonderful invention that has allowed for the dissemination of a wide variety of ideas. Not surprisingly, politicians, never ones...
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Consumer Protection or Consumer Prying?
It seems that every day we learn of some new horror in the financial reform bill currently before Congress. This is not surprising...
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Have a DNA Sample on the House
“Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database,...
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Ron Paul: Auditing the Fed is Responsibility of Congress
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) addressed his colleagues from the floor of the House on May 11, expressing his displeasure with the cave-in by...
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Finance Reform Bill Would Undermine Effort to Audit the Fed
One aspect of the behemoth finance reform bill now being debated in the Senate that has not attracted any mainstream media attention is...
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10,000 Commandments — The Hidden Tax
When the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) announced the conclusions of its annual “Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State”...
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Dodd’s Finance Reform Bill Would Strengthen Fed
There are from time to time political events that attract attention and controversy, only to fade into well-deserved obscurity. Who today can recall...
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Healthcare Debate: The Real March Madness
In the spirit of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, President Obama and his starting line up are running a full court press this...
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McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”
On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act...
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Congressional Democrats Nix Anti-torture Measure
House Democrats have caved in to Republican pressure, removing an anti-torture provision from the Fiscal 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act (H.R. 2701). “The controversial...
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