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Obama's War on the Secret Ballot

[Ed. Note: This article was co-authored with Clint Bolik.] The Obama Administration has fired its opening salvo against a cornerstone of democracy: the right to secret ballot. Last fall, voters in four states voted overwhelmingly to amend their constitutions protect

Will Congressman Eliot Ness Please Stand Up?

As the United States continues on its downward trajectory, thanks to the policies of Barack Obama, the debate rages about whether he’s doing it all on purpose or is just incompetent. When talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh discusses this, he

Post Qaddafi: Insurgency And Jihad Against Democracy

By seizing Tripoli and fighting what’s left of the pockets of resistance of Qaddafi forces, Libyan rebels have now almost dislodged the old regime and are expected to begin building their own government. The most pressing question within the international

Obama Job Plan: Regulate America to Oblivion.

America is holding its breath in anticipation for President Obama’s big post-Labor Day jobs plan. September is when Congress is due back in session. It will be then the president will discuss regulations and their damaging effects on job creation.

Is Ron Paul A Useful Idiot?

You saw it here first, folks! Clueless? Over at the American Spectator, the great Jeffrey Lord writes that “almost to a person … prominent pre-Ron Paul non-interventionist “Paulist” politicians of the 20th century were overwhelmingly not conservatives at all. They

Institute of Medicine Provides 'Medical' Cover for Sebelius

There is a lot of talk, during these pre-presidential election days, of whether Republicans should stick to fiscal policy issues or include social issues as well in their platforms. Liberals are attacking fiscal/social conservatives, and some “establishment” Republicans are also

Google Caught with Hand in Cookie Jar

There is one thing you can say about Google – they don’t give a damn. They don’t care about intellectual property rights. They don’t care about privacy of their users. And they don’t appear to care about the law in

The Latest Obama Administration Fake Budget Cut 'Proposal'

As the Tea Party and its Less Government agenda continue its ascendancy, Leftists and the DC GOP, the establishment, chequed-golf pants Republicans, have gone through serial ideological and numerical contortions. So as to feign the appearance of getting with the

Will Rep. Weiner's New York City-based Seat Flip to the GOP?

From The New York Times: Few predict a Republican upset: registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by three to one in the Ninth Congressional District. But it is not uniformly liberal — many Orthodox Jews live there, for example — and even

Rep. Maxine Waters: 'The Tea Party Can Go Straight to Hell'

From The LA Times: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) came out swinging against Republicans in Congress on Saturday as she addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood. The event occurred a day after new statistics were released showing that

UPDATE: Houston National Cemetery Censorship

Finally. We are days away from justice. The hearing for Arleen Ocasio, Director of the Houston National Cemetery, who has been censoring freedom of speech and freedom of prayer is this Monday, 8/22. As you may remember, Ms. Ocasio has