Politics
Did We Get Lied Into War?
On June 5, the Senate Intelligence Committee, concluding five years of investigations (and partisan disagreements), released its report about whether the Bush administration...
Ron Paul Ends His Campaign for President, Starts a New Venture
With a letter sent to supporters on June 12, and with a speech delivered at a rally coinciding with the Texas GOP convention...
Read moreHage Family Vindicated by Court Victory
Nevada ranchers Wayne and Jean Hage did not live to see final victory in their epic property rights battle with the federal government,...
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 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 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 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 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 moreTop-level Torture
A hidden bomb will detonate in an hour, killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. You have the bomber in your power. Do...
Read moreObama’s Bill Would Commit the United States to UN Poverty Goals
Thanks to the alternative news media, many conservatives are familiar by now with some aspects of Senator Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) Global Poverty Act...
Read moreClimate-change Bill Would Devastate Families and Industries
Undeterred by record cold temperatures worldwide for the winter of 2007-2008 and recent admissions by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization that global temperatures...
Read moreNo Compromise Against Gun Control: Aaron Zelman Interviewed
Interview of Aaron Zelman by John F. McManus Aaron Zelman is executive director of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, a pro-Second...
Read moreArizona Legislature on Verge of Nixing Real ID Program
On March 19 the Arizona state House passed a bill (HB2677) that would prohibit the state from putting Real ID into effect without...
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