Census Should Stick To Constitutional Limits, Says Ron Paul
Every time a year ending in a zero swings around, the federal government conducts a census — typically in early spring, meaning that...
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Inflicting Aristide — and More Pain — on Haiti
By the beginning of March, government officials and humanitarian aid workers on the ground in Haiti were estimating that the death toll from...
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Obama Woos Senators for Climate-change Legislation
President Obama is turning up the heat on Congress to pass comprehensive climate-change legislation, meeting today with key Senators from both parties at...
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TSA and the Fourth Amendment: Take another Look
When Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that Major General Robert Harding was President Obama’s latest nominee for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA),...
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McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”
On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act...
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Gas Prices May Reach $7 Per Gallon
President Obama's fiscal year 2010 EPA budget calls for carbon reductions that would require raising the cost of gasoline to $7 per gallon...
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Partial Gun Rights Victory Could Have Other Implications
Analysts are predicting at least a partial victory for gun rights after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in McDonald v. Chicago,...
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New Sanctions Against Iran?
VOA News reported on March 4 that the United States, Great Britain, and France are increasing their pressure for additional sanctions against Iran...
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McCain-Feingold and Free Speech
Hillary Clinton will not easily be mistaken for Sir Winston Churchill, but our nation’s Secretary of State borrowed a metaphor from old “Winnie”...
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Financial Reform: Pressing On, Regardless
Last month, Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) pushed back against the Obama administration’s plans to create a “standalone” Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and some...
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U.S. Postal Service: Time to Free the Mail
When U.S. Postmaster General John Potter recommended eliminating Saturday delivery service in order to save money, he was merely responding to the postal...
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Debra Medina Defiant in Defeat
As Debra Medina sat with her husband in their hometown campaign office in Wharton, Texas, watching the numbers come in, she knew that...
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Oklahoma Offensive: Restoring Good Govt
The price of freedom is… If you know the ending of the above phrase, and you know that it means more than watching...
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Obama Administration Set to Seize Millions of Acres in the West
Not satisfied with placing banks, insurance companies, and the car industry under the control of the federal government, President Obama has turned his...
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States Act to Block Federal Healthcare Mandates
James Madison, known to history as the Father of the Constitution, reckoned that “the first and most natural attachment of the people will...
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