In my last article on these pages, I offered criticism of a New York Times article that had praised the Lincoln administration's property violations in pursuit of military objectives. Today I want to focus on a regular Wall Street Journal columnist w
There is a sense that if you make money you are going to give. Making money, however, is different from stealing money. If you steal the money, you are not expected to give it to a charity my friends. If you steal the money we will take the money bac
The bill would permit an audit of the Fed's actions in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and similar high profile bailouts, but would not allow Congress to review the Fed's inflation of the money supply or the its agreements with foreign cen
The Taliban recaptured the birthplace of the Pakistani Taliban leader from the Pakistani army, inflicting the heaviest military losses so far in Pakistan's offensive and attempts to foment a tribal uprising against the Taliban also failed
Weeks after the US pulled the plug on a Poland-based missile defense system, Vice President Biden traveled to Warsaw to assuage angry officials and emerged with an agreement that Poland will get an upgraded element of a missile defense.
(CBS) If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.
CBS News Exclusive: Study Of State Results Finds H1N1 Not As Prevalent As F
Williams "did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship" with one of the defendants. Prosecutors, who knew about the relationship during the case, dismissed Williams' new claim, and lawyers for the defendants would not discuss
We interview Super Activist Lauren Canario about her role in the Kelo v. New London case. This was known as the worst case of eminent domain abuse in modern times. Was this the worst Supreme Court decision of all time? If not which one was?
Time to call out the outrageous actions this "bank" has taken.
Let's first start with the fact that Capital One, along with most of the other "big banks", took TARP money. Why did they need/take TARP money? Simple: They were incompetent in their
President Barack Obama stopped by the headquarters of the FBI and New York Police Department’s Joint Terrorism Task Force to thank employees there for their work in fighting what he described as "a determined adversary."
After years of competition, NASA's moon dirt digging challenge finally has some winners. 3 teams took home a total $750,000 in prize money by using homemade robots to excavate simulated lunar dirt.
The basic molecules required for life as we know it have been detected in a second hot gas planet beyond our solar system.
The planet, which orbits a sun-like star about 150 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, is not habitable but it ha
The U.S. military needs better dialog with China to avoid "mistakes and miscalculations" given an unprecedented military expansion stoking uncertainty in the region, top U.S. defense officials said. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, speaking days befor
Sen. Alexander (R-TN) accused the White House of "street-brawling" with opponents, and said the strategy of freezing out opponents amounts to a latter-day "enemies list," a reference to an infamous practice of President Nixon.
Rocket propellant has barely changed in the more than 50 years since the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik. But a new mixture of nano-aluminum powder and frozen water could allow spacecraft to refuel at the moon or Mars.
A top Senate Republican took to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to suggest that the Obama White House is plotting a political strategy similar to that of ex-President Richard Nixon and may be on the verge of preparing its own “enemies list.”
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Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules a
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presi
Plants can't see or hear, but they can recognize their siblings, and now researchers have found out how: They use chemical signals secreted from their roots. As soon as one of the plants is thrown in with strangers, it begins competing with them by r
New maps reveal colorful patterns on the surfaces of Saturn's five innermost icy moons.
Some of the patterns have been seen before, but others took scientists by surprise, suggesting dynamic interactions between the moons and other particles orbit
Among gifted speakers like Chuck Baldwin at this years 2009 Constitution Party National Committee Conference, attendees will also get their first peak at the popular new patriot film “Camp FEMA.” Jim Clymer Constitution Party National Committee Chai
On Tuesday, Matt Drudge ran a headline about the weakening U.S. dollar on his website, Drudgereport.com. In and of itself, that would be unremarkable, except that it was the 18th time Drudge had posted a link to a story about the weak dollar this mon
Between 1951 and 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated more than 100 nuclear bombs in the atmosphere over its Nevada Test Site, just 65 miles from Las Vegas. The radioactive fallout menaced not only the ranchers and the miners unlucky enough t
The 2003 law that created the Medicare prescription drug plan was a windfall for the drug industry. After the bill passed, many of its architects left Capitol Hill to become lobbyists. And now they’re back on the Hill, as lobbyists for drug companie
Explosions, scientists arrested for alleged terrorism, mysterious breakdowns — recently Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun to look like the world’s most ill-fated experiment.
As the Obama Administration prepares a new TARP-like program, this time targeting smaller, community and local banks, Inspector General Neil Barofsky thinks “it’s unrealistic to think we’re going to get all that money back” in a statement made Wednes