Politics

FBI Says It Violated Fourth Amendment

The FBI has used the terrorism as an excuse to subpoena some 2,000 telephone records from phone carriers without a warrant or even...

Thomas R. Eddlem January 20, 2010

RAND Corporation Calls for a Domestic Stability Police Force

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 20, 2010

Given the United States government’s response to the natural disaster in Haiti, there is increased interest and scrutiny in the ability of the...

Brown “Croaks” Coakley, Dems in Mass

Jack Kenny January 20, 2010

The good news for the White House Wednesday morning was that Massachusetts is not Haiti. That unfortunate Caribbean nation suffered another earthquake early...

Constitution Candidates Expand Across States

Thomas R. Eddlem January 20, 2010

The 2008 presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul has spawned successive aftershocks that have progressively magnified in intensity over the original “failed” presidential...

Govt Spends Money Like Monopoly Money

William P. Hoar January 19, 2010

Item: Sunlen Miller reported for ABC News on December 21: “Saying that the federal government can no longer spend taxpayers’ money like it...

Global ObamaCare and World Population Control

William F. Jasper January 19, 2010

As reported here on January 16 ("ObamaCare Goes Global, Hillary Clinton Announces") Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent celebration of the 15th Anniversary...

Democrat Options in Massachusetts Senate Race: Delay, Dither, and Litigate

Bob Adelmann January 19, 2010

With polls predicting a clear win by Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election for the Senate seat vacated as a result of...

Turning Republicans into Teapublicans

Bob Adelmann January 18, 2010

Tea Party activists are trying to take over the Republican Party from the ground up, according to the New York Times. ...

Coakley-Brown Race Offers Poor Ideological Choice

Thomas R. Eddlem January 18, 2010

The special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of the late Ted Kennedy may be a bellwether of...

Will Obama’s Effort to Rescue Coakley Be Enough?

Bob Adelmann January 18, 2010

Despite President Obama’s quick flight to Boston on Sunday to try to rescue Martha Coakley’s faltering bid for the Senate seat vacated last...

Obama’s Bully Pulpit Permits Few Questions

Bruce Walker January 16, 2010

President Obama is ubiquitous in public life. Newsweek has even asked our chief executive to write an article on Haiti, in light of...

Doomsday Clock Should Be Overhauled

Kurt Williamsen January 15, 2010

According to an article at MSNBC.com entitled “Doomsday Clock set back one minute,” the Doomsday Clock, an “end-of-the-world clock, set up in 1947,...

Mass. Senate Race: It’s Going to be Close!

Bob Adelmann January 14, 2010

From obscurity to prominence to possible victory, Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown’s campaign for Teddy Kennedy’s seat in a special election on Tuesday,...