Is There an Enumerated Power Over Immigration?
In Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling granting the federal government partial preliminary injunction of several key provisions of Arizona's S.B. 1070, she made specific...
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Defense Secretary Gates Mortified, Appalled by Wikileaks Exposure
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told ABC's Christiane Amanpour he was “mortified” and “appalled” by?last month's?Wikileaks disclosures of U.S. Afghanistan campaign secret documents...
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Obama Seeks Expanded Internet Surveillance Authority
Just one week after the American Civil Liberties Union issued a report castigating the Obama administration for its extension and expansion of Bush-era...
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Beck Closely Examines Tea Party Movement
Fridays on the Glenn Beck program have been dubbed “Founders’ Fridays,” as Beck has used those days to discuss the founding of America....
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Who’s at Fault if WikiLeaks Endangers Innocents?
The federal government loves corporate whistleblowers; they get paraded before congressional committees and treated as selfless heroes out to protect the little guy...
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ACLU: Obama’s “New Normal” Is Bush’s Old One
Though neoconservatives and other pro-national security-state types would have Americans believe that President Obama has made a clean break with the Bush administration’s...
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California Faces Total Meltdown
Governor Schwarzenegger of California on Wednesday ordered furloughs for 156,000 of the state’s 237,000 employees. The estimated savings from these furloughs is $150,000,000...
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Internal USCIS Memo Cuts Congress Out of Amnesty Plan
Last month, The New American chronicled President Barack Obama’s presumed intention to circumvent the legislative process and issue an executive order, a fiat...
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Senate Energy Bill Could Lead to Cap and Trade
After supposedly abandoning the much-touted cap-and-trade scheme due to a lack of support, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced a scaled-back $15 billion...
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Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Key Provisions of S.B. 1070
The ink on S.B. 1070 hadn’t dried before motions to enjoin its enforcement were filed in federal district court. One of those motions,...
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Pentagon Can’t Account for Iraq Reconstruction Funds
“A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi...
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Mel Gibson’s Meltdown
On July 12, RadarOnline.com released a recording, allegedly of famed filmmaker Mel Gibson and his former mistress, Oksana Grigorieva, in which Gibson is...
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DISCLOSE Act Stalled by GOP Filibuster
Senate Democrats were unable to muster the necessary votes to break the Republican filibuster and vote to pass the DISCLOSE Act (Democracy Is...
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Obama’s Russia Adviser Michael McFaul and the Russian Spies
The mainstream media have been quick to write off the recent Russian spy scandal as an inconsequential matter, a case of the gang...
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Tackling Domestic Violence One Boondoggle at a Time
Your tax dollars at work: “The National Institutes of Health spent $314,613 over two years on a study that determined that family violence...
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