Politics

Soviet Refugees Flock to the Republican Party

In one of the most remarkable and unexpected political demographic developments, the 700,000+ Russian-American refugees who came to the United States in the...

January 4, 2011

Austan Goolsbee’s Petulance

Bob Adelmann January 4, 2011

During Sunday’s interview on ABC’s This Week with the Obama administration’s chief economics advisor, Austan Goolsbee, he warned opponents not to treat the...

Sen. Graham Wants U.S. in Afghanistan Permanently

R. Cort Kirkwood January 4, 2011

Liberal Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, known in conservative anti-immigration circles as Sen. Grahamnesty, says the United States must maintain a permanent...

Federal Judge Stops NYC From Requiring Grisly Pictures Where Tobacco Sold

Bruce Walker January 3, 2011

Federal Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan has held that the New York City Health Department cannot adopt a...

Senate Confirms Lesbian to EEOC

Dave Bohon January 3, 2011

Democrats in the U.S. Senate used the tail end of the lame-duck session to confirm an openly homosexual woman to the Equal Employment...

MSNBC’s Matthews Calls on Obama to Release Birth Certificate

William F. Jasper January 3, 2011

The Obama administration cannot be happy that two of its most strident supporters, MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews and new Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie,...

The 112th Congress: Real Substance, or Just Smoke?

Bob Adelmann January 2, 2011

When the House of Representatives announced new rules for the Congress that convenes on Wednesday, the mainstream media immediately called them “strict” and...

Was Last Year “Liberalism’s Waterloo”?

Bruce Walker January 2, 2011

CBS News writer E. J. Dionne has asked if 2010 was "Liberalism's Waterloo." First, let's consider the term. What exactly is “liberalism”? Our...

Obama Again Circumvents Congress With Recess Appointments

Raven Clabough December 31, 2010

President Obama has once again circumvented the U.S. Congress as it stands in the way of his agenda — this time, by directly...

Tea Party Hypocrisy on Display?

Raven Clabough December 31, 2010

Tea Party support helped coast a number of congressional candidates to victory in the 2010 midterm elections. However, whether those victors will stay...

New Jersey City Sued by ACLU Over Prayer

Dave Bohon December 30, 2010

The ACLU of New Jersey has been granted a temporary court order forcing the city council of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, to...

WikiLeaks Leads to Calls for New Infringements on Speech, Press

Alex Newman December 30, 2010

American proponents of government secrecy are calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be assassinated or imprisoned, even if it means creating a...

Left Vexed Over Coming GOP Attack on Regulations

Thomas R. Eddlem December 29, 2010

Left-wing blogs are fretting over the potential impact of the incoming new majority Republican House of Representatives upon federal regulations, especially possible Republican...