Politics
Murkowski Concedes to Miller in Alaska’s GOP Primary
After a tumultuous indecisive primary election and a week of bitter disputes, Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski finally conceded the GOP Senate primary victory...
Obama Claims End to “Combat Operations” in Iraq
President Barack Obama claimed August 31 in an Oval Office address to the nation that “tonight, I am announcing that the American combat...
Read moreNBC Nightly News Williams Grills Obama on Birth Certificate, Religious Affiliation Polls
NBC’s Nightly News last Sunday, August 29, featured an interview in New Orleans on the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, between reporter Brian...
Read moreHow Big Was Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally?
The “Restoring Honor” rally that Glenn Beck held in Washington this past weekend brought in huge numbers of people from all over the...
Read more(Supposed) End of U.S. Combat Role in Iraq
Speaking in a television address broadcast nationally just hours before the formal end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq on August 31, Iraqi...
Read moreObama Admin Indicts U.S. in Human Rights Report
President Barack Obama’s first-ever report to the United Nations Human Rights Council asserts that the United States has committed a variety of human...
Read moreAlaska Primary: Miller Concerned Murkowski May Try to Pull an Al Franken
The absentee ballots that were cast in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary will be counted on August 31. Current estimates are that about 7,600...
Read moreBoondoggles in Baghdad, Basra, and Beyond
Your tax dollars at work, as reported by the Associated Press: “As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds...
Read moreTrilateral Commission Keeps Expanding
Launched in 1973, the Trilateral Commission (TC) listed an initial roster of 187 members, all of whom hailed from three areas: Western Europe,...
Read moreElites Push Government-funded “Public” Media
The Aspen Institute hosted its annual Forum On Communications And Society (FOCAS) August 15–18 in Aspen, Colorado, exploring the theme of "News Cities:...
Read moreWill Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski “Pull an Al Franken”?
Alaska’s leading GOP Senate primary contender Joe Miller, an Iraq war veteran, voiced concerns last week that his opponent, Lisa Murkowski, will “pull...
Read moreWind Power Creates Problems
What happens when government tries to make things better? Usually, it makes things worse. Wind power sounded like a harmless enough idea. ...
Read moreGovernment’s Peep Show Takes to the Road
As bad as the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners are, at least they are avoidable simply by not flying. Opting to drive or...
Read moreAmerican Held by North Korea Returns Home
Aijalon Mahli Gomes — a U.S. citizen imprisoned in North Korea last January, and later sentenced to eight years of hard labor with...
Read moreWho will be Alaska’s GOP Senatorial Candidate?
This year’s midterm primaries proved that no politician is safe from the wrath of the American people, as establishment Republicans and Democrats like...
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