Unfunded Municipal Pensions: Conveyor Belt to Oblivion
For years the small town of Prichard, Alabama knew they were in trouble. Back in 2004, the city hired an actuary to analyze...
Politics
Milwaukee Man Fined for Cursing on Bus
According to a local news station, a Milwaukee man named Terry Duncan received a $500 fine last week for cursing on a public...
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Time’s Joe Klein Connects Beck to JBS
As if conservative pundit Glenn Beck was not enough of a target to the Left, Timemagazine’s Joe Klein has branded him with a...
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Will New House Rules Mean New Hope for the Constitution?
Christmas is a time for hope and as a new Congress is sworn in after the New Year comes the hope that a...
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New Congress Poised for Real Immigration Reform
With the 2010 lame suck session now in the past, what many hope will be a more conservative 112th Congress is poised to...
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Three Congressmen Reject Congressional Health Care
While most politicians campaign on the premise that they are “one of us,” they seem to lose touch with the American people once...
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111th Congress Racks Up Record Debt
Leave it to Democrats to make the spendthrift Republicans of the George W. Bush era look like tightwads. “The federal government,” reports CNSNews.com,...
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Opposition to TSA Pat-Down Leads to Austin Airport Arrest
On Wednesday, Dec. 22, an Austin, Texas woman hoping to spend Christmas with California friends, collided with the TSA and was arrested for...
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Reapportionment and Redistricting Favor Republicans
The Founding Fathers provided in the Constitution for a count each 10 years of the number of people in our country. Citizens of...
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Nearly One Quarter of Military Applicants Fail Basic Exam
While President Obama and the Congress were engaged in using the U.S. military as a pawn in the latest round of social experimentation,...
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FCC Ruling is Irrelevant
There have been sighs of despair and much hand-wringing coming from observers of the latest attempt by the FCC to intervene in the...
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City Charging Churches a Tax on Attendance
Under the guise of a “driveway fee,” the city council of Mission, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, has imposed a tax on...
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Reality Checks from New Jersey, Illinois
Steve Kroft called it "The Day of Reckoning" on his "60 Minutes" segment on Sunday, but many weren't buying it. Despite persuasive statistics...
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Will Tea Party Rebels Upset the GOP Congressional Apple Cart?
Plutarch records that upon hearing one of his early public orations, Julius Caesar remarked about his erstwhile protégé and eventual assassin Brutus: “I...
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Federal Appeals Court Misinterprets Constitution and State Sovereignty
The federal judiciary has had a chip on its shoulder ever since Alexander Hamilton described it as the “weakest of the three departments...
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