Politics

Senators Push Biometric ID Card

Two prominent U.S. Senators are promoting national ID cards as a means of mending the nation's "badly broken" immigration system. Senators Charles Schumer...

Jack Kenny March 19, 2010

GOP Bigwigs Resort to Lies to Stop Rand Paul

Thomas R. Eddlem March 19, 2010

The Establishment neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party has a problem in Kentucky: Their anointed U.S. Senate candidate, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey...

Dodd’s Finance Reform Bill Would Strengthen Fed

Charles Scaliger March 18, 2010

There are from time to time political events that attract attention and controversy, only to fade into well-deserved obscurity. Who today can recall...

Mitch McConnell: One Smart Political Pragmatist

Bob Adelmann March 18, 2010

Republican Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) had a strategy even before President Obama was inaugurated, according to the New York Times. Recognizing...

Healthcare Bill Rife with Provisions Funding Abortion

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 18, 2010

As the House of Representatives rushes to pass the version of a healthcare bill passed in December by the Senate, particular emphasis is...

Jobs Bill: The Law of Intended Consequences

Bob Adelmann March 18, 2010

With great fanfare, the Obama administration celebrated its first policy victory of the year — the $17.6 billion jobs bill. Eleven Republican Senators...

Bearing Arms: A Right … and a Duty?

Bruce Walker March 17, 2010

The Massachusetts Judicial Council ruled on March 10 that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does not apply to state governments and,...

States Say Enough Is Enough, Tell Feds to Butt Out

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 17, 2010

Nothing gives this writer purer pleasure than to report on the multitude of states’ rights initiatives being passed by state legislatures across our...

Healthcare Debate: The Real March Madness

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. March 16, 2010

In the spirit of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, President Obama and his starting line up are running a full court press this...

Mount Vernon Statement Shoptalk

March 16, 2010

Our country is in trouble. Ongoing military commitments, enormous indebtedness, high unemployment, failing schools, citizen restlessness, and a President and Congress trying to...

Court Upholds “Under God” and “In God We Trust”

Raven Clabough March 12, 2010

A San Francisco federal appeals court ruled that the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on...

NatGeo’s “Wolf Wars” Flacks for Radical Greens

William F. Jasper March 11, 2010

"Wolf Wars," the cover story for the March 2010 issue of National Geographic, may seem, at first read, to be a "balanced" report...

Six-year-old Suspended for “Gun” Violation

Bruce Walker March 10, 2010

Political correctness reached a new height (or depth) when a six-year-old boy in Ionia, Michigan, was suspended from his Jefferson Elementary kindgarten class...