Politics
Alaska Senate Election Still Undecided
Incumbent U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski is claiming victory, but challenger Joe Miller has obtained a court order stopping the Alaska Division of Elections...
TSA “Freedom Grope” May Lead to Highway Fatalities
Amidst the understandable furor over the TSA’s current systematic violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of American citizens, an aspect of the crisis...
Read moreTed Koppel’s Absurd Lament Over Media Bias
The latest outburst from a doyen of what's deservingly termed "lamestream media" is further proof of the senescence of “big three” television news....
Read moreMore Lawmakers Demand TSA Probe
Utah's Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz and Maine's Republican Senator Olympia Snowe have each undertaken the task of probing the security policies of the...
Read moreThe Fed: Defending the Indefensible
In defending the Federal Reserve against what CNBC considered to be “an unprecedented level of attacks,” former Fed governor Frederic Mishkin said it...
Read moreRevolutionary Communist Party Proposes New Continental Constitution
Lately, even many soi-disant conservatives are calling for the drafting of a new constitution. Many believe that the government that has developed from...
Read moreCar Cellphone Calls To Be Jammed?
Popsci.com, the online version of Popular Science, reported November 19 that the Obama administration is considering disabling cellphones in cars. The effort is...
Read moreFirst Time: U.S. Tanks in Afghanistan
M1A1 Abrams tanks will be put to use in Afghanistan’s Helmand province by early spring. It is the first time in the nine-year...
Read moreDangerous United Nations Womens Treaty Looms on Horizon
While Americans are thinking about turkey and the TSA (and turkeys in the TSA), as is often the case, the most destructive governmental...
Read moreN.J. Lawmakers Stand Up to TSA
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has faced a copious amount of criticism in recent months after the introduction of naked body scanners...
Read moreRon Paul, the Fed, and Changing Times
The times, they are a-changin’. Unthinkable only a year or two ago, the prospect that Congressman Ron Paul may actually receive the long-deserved...
Read moreFaux Conservatism: Fox Gets It Wrong
On the November 14 segment of its five-part series, "The Right All Along: The Rise, Fall and Future of Conservatism," Fox News leveled...
Read moreRep. Mica Urges Private Security for Airports
John Mica, a Republican congressman from Florida, has written a letter to 100 of the busiest airports in the country. Congressman Mica has...
Read moreNew Jersey Supreme Court Rules Against Recall
On November 16, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a committee seeking to recall Senator Robert Menendez in advance of the...
Read moreSen. Rockefeller’s Wish: TV News Censorship
It is common for aging humans to look back fondly on the imagined “good old days” of their youth. Sen. John D. (“Jay”)...
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