Politics

Republican Brown Gaining in Mass. Senate Race

Even in the Republican Tsunami of 1994, the Grand Old Party did not really come close to taking the U.S. Senate seat ordained...

Jack Kenny January 11, 2010

In Abortion Fight, Stupak’s Not Nelson

Jack Kenny January 7, 2010

Congressional battles are about who gets what, it is sometimes said, while presidential elections are about who and what we are as a...

2010 Outlook Sour and Anxious

Bob Adelmann January 6, 2010

Several recent polls show the American people to be in a sour mood and anxious about the future, according to an op-ed column...

Dodd Drops Out of Senate Race

Jack Kenny January 6, 2010

U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn., picture at left) is expected to announce this morning that he will not be a candidate for a...

TSA Nominee Faces New Problems

Bruce Walker January 5, 2010

Errol Southers, President Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, faced additional confirmation problems with revelations about misuse of criminal history information....

U.S. and U.K. to Strengthen Yemeni Security and the UN

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 5, 2010

In the wake of a nearly fatal display of U.S. security and intelligence agencies inability to protect the United States from airborne terrorists,...

Defense Appropriations Bill Full of Pork

Bruce Walker January 4, 2010

The Defense appropriations bill signed by President Obama last month was filled with 1,720 different special earmarks. These earmarks seldom had anything to...

Senators Call Healthcare Bill Unconstitutional

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 3, 2010

In a signal example of being a day late and a trillion dollars short, several key senators have recently admitted that healthcare “reform”...

DeMint Opposes Unionized TSA

Bruce Walker January 2, 2010

Democrats are attacking Republican Senator John DeMint (S.C.) for placing a hold on the confirmation of Erroll Southers to be head of the...

Maddow Displays Dishonesty; Ignores Official Report About JBS

January 1, 2010

Having evidently been stung by the many facts we presented on December 28 to counter Rachel Maddow’s distortions and untruths about The John...

The Last Decade and the Prospects for Freedom

Charles Scaliger December 31, 2009

As the Decade That Has No Name (The “aughts”? The “zeroes”? The “naughty naughts”?) draws to a merciful close, we would do well...

Suicide Bomb Attack at Afghan CIA Base

Steven J. DuBord December 31, 2009

A suicide bomber somehow managed to gain entry to a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on December 30 and detonated explosives that killed...

Florida Attorney General Challenges Constitutionality of Healthcare Bill

Thomas R. Eddlem December 30, 2009

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum stated December 29 that the healthcare package the U.S. Senate passed on Christmas Eve contains an unconstitutional mandate...