In my piece on Democrats and taxes today, I neglected to mention that even as he seeks the return of the 3-martini lunch, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) is setting you up for a tax on your Internet service by letting the moratorium on Internet taxes expir
Neither Senator Susan Collins nor the man challenging her for her seat will mention an important difference between them: Rep. Tom Allen, a Democrat, has activists arrested when they demonstrate at his offices; Collins, a Republican, lets them stay.
We have ### days until Ron Paul is elected President
### days (##### hours) until President Ron Paul takes office
This means Bush will leave the White House in ######## seconds
Scores of federal immigration agents from around the country, some wearing cowboy hats and brandishing shotguns and automatic weapons, endangered residents and local police officers as they raided homes in Nassau County in a poorly planned antigang o
Where in the world is Ruben Shumpert? By most expectations, the Seattle barber should be sitting in a federal lock-up serving time for gun and counterfeiting convictions in a case deeply colored by allegations of terrorism. But in November, days befo
Watch Nora O'Donnell, a FOX-style Bushite. She's upset and astonished at Ron's fundraising prowess, which has only begun. Newsweek's Jonathan Alter is funereal. "This is how they will sound when they announce Ron's victory in
The Bush White House calls Iran's President Ahmadinejad a "dictator" when he isn't -- part of scaring the public into thinking preemptive war is a good thing.
No more than four Justice Department officials had access to details of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program when the department deemed portions of it illegal, following a pattern of poor consultation that helped create a **
Americans working in Iraq for Halliburton spin-off KBR have been outraged by the massive fraud they saw there. Dozens are suing the giant military contractor, on the taxpayers' behalf. Whose side is the Justice Department on?
The ruling was made in a lawsuit filed by the American Historical Association and other organizations, which argued that Bush’s Executive Order 13,233 was an “impermissible exercise of the executive power.” A bill that would overturn the order is pen
The Bush administration has adopted a particular approach to fighting terrorism, something it calls the "preventive paradigm." This paradigm seeks to employ the most coercive measures that a state has against people, not because of what the
Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class with the US Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a 3rd time. Making his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife and young son may not be around when he comes back. He also doesn't know wha
Moore said he pleaded without success for officers to search for his missing friends. In the morning light hours later, Smith's father Arthur Smith, would cry out in agony, finding his son's body tangled across a fallen tree and Green's c
A state legislator surprised a high school class when the computer he was using projected a photo of a nude woman during a lecture on how a bill becomes a law.
State Rep. Matthew Barrett was giving a civics lesson when he inserted a data memory s
The gun-offender registry is similar to a program that has already been operating in New York. Offenders who do not register could face up to a year in jail and a fine up to $1,000.
October 4, 2007 – Frequently found in American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) press statements is the following abstract. Consistently ranked as the most influential foreign policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, AIPAC is an American
Bush thought he could just get Congress to squeeze in a pardon, layered way down in the verbage of a bill. But it won't wash. He and countless others who violated their oaths, profited from the ongoing rape of America will be judged. Nuremberg w
The United States is preparing for its biggest anti terrorism exercise ever next week, a scenario testing the impact if three fictional" dirty bombs" were to go off and cripple transportation arteries in two major U.S. cities.
Are multi-national companies playing fast and loose with our personal information? From personal experience, I would say yes! With all of the warnings we get regarding identity theft, why are large multi-national corporations treating their customers
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, an anti-war libertarian who has clashed with his rivals over Iraq, raised more than $5 million for his White House bid in the last three months. [Thomas was first to report this, but this is nice too.]
Today's fundraising announcement by Rep. Ron Paul, the Republican Libertarian ob-gyn from Texas, doesn't involve quite as much money, but is downright jaw-dropping. His campaign is revealing today that in the 3rd quarter Paul raised $5,080,00
The best way to not drown in debt is to live well within your means. The #1 rule is don't buy stuff you cannot afford. Think twice about that SUV. Have a Years' Worth of Living Expenses in Cash to protect against loss of a job. Cash is not tr
Our own Congress displaces millions of American citizens out of their jobs. Our own cab drivers can't keep jobs as they suffer displacement from people who make gobble-de-gook out of the English language. Our high tech workers suffer displaceme
What Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is trying to do to me is wrong. In America, we cherish the right to engage in politics, to speak our minds, to promote our candidate, to work to pass a voter initiative, without fear of reprisal
Russian warplane exercises around Alaska have become routine in the past few months, US military officials said Monday, as the former Cold War superpower steps up flights from its Arctic bases. Over the summer, Russian bombers have staged