The G.O.P. Looks at Elena Kagan
"I wouldn't take it off the table," USA Today on June 24 quoted Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the ranking minority member of...
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Supreme Court Tramples Free Speech
In its zeal to support “anti-terror” rules without regard to the Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 this week to uphold criminal...
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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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Proper Use of the U.S. Military
Do you ever wonder why we are still in Iraq after defeating Saddam Hussein’s forces in March, 2003? Are we peacekeeping until the...
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CFR Gen. Petraeus Replaces CFR Gen. McChrystal
President Obama announced June 23 that he had “accepted the resignation” of Afghanistan theater commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and will replace him with...
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Obama’s Links to Big Oil
Democratic politicians would have us believe that the Republicans are pro-big oil companies and that the Dems are against the “evil oil giants.”...
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Joe Lieberman: Follow China’s Lead on Internet
Senator Joseph Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Independent Senator from Connecticut, told CNN's State of the Union program June 20 that the United States government needs...
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Chicago Shootings and McDonald v. City of Chicago
When it was learned that more than 50 people were shot, some fatally, over Fathers Day weekend in the poorer sections of Chicago,...
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Faisal Shahzad: Exhibit A for Noninterventionism
One of the most dramatic moments in the 2008 election cycle occurred almost a year and a half before Election Day, during a...
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Gen. McChrystal Goes to Washington
Voice of America and other news sources reported on June 22 that General Stanley McChrystal, the top military commander of U.S., International Security...
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Washington Post Highlights Federal Government Hypocrisy
The Washington Post highlighted the contradictory nature of the federal government in two cover stories on June 22. The first story revealed that...
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Dems Not Yet Prepared to Let DISCLOSE Act Go Away
There is nothing sadder than witnessing a populace that truly believes in the sincerity of their elected officials as it gets trampled by...
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The Big Government-Big Business Axis
If you accept the old stereotype, you believe that big government is a sworn enemy of big business. You believe that, were it...
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Gulf Oil Spill Greases the Skids for Federalism
One of the few good things to come from the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is Americans’ increasing realization that...
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Over $1 Billion in Federal Funding to Pro-Abortion Groups Since 2002
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative and auditing arm of the U.S. Congress, has revealed that between 2002...
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Sarah Has Picked … Again
Sarah Palin, former Alaska Governor turned vice-presidential candidate turned political kingmaker (or is that queenmaker?), has endorsed another “liberty-loving mama grizzly” (as she...
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Senators Would Ban U.S. Govt. Purchase of Chinese Goods
A bill introduced in Congress on June 17 by four Senators would prohibit purchases by the U.S. federal government of Chinese goods and...
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MSNBC’s Matthews: Fear Mongering Over “New Right”
For weeks MSNBC's Chris Matthews had been hyping and hawking his new soon-to-be-unveiled "documentary" on the Tea Party movement and the "New Right":...
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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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Loophole Backfires, Blows up DISCLOSE Act
In their attempt to mitigate negative election-year fallout from the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in favor of rights of free speech for everyone...
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