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Rationing By All Means Necessary

The most instructive part of the president’s “deficit” speech last week was his insistence that he could help balance the budget through an “independent commission” with the “authority to make additional savings by further improving Medicare.” That commission is the

Taking a Stand Against SAG Extortion

Today I had the pleasure of doing something I have wanted to do for the past twenty years: I walked out of a SAG (Screen Actors Guild) arbitration. For those you who are unaware of the method in which disputes

Interview With 'Ceremony' Star Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman has been gracing the world’s movie screens with her ethereal beauty and unique presence for more than 20 years, ever since her breakthrough role in 1988’s “Dangerous Liaisons” opposite John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. Since then, she’s helped

Obama Moves Left in Budget Debate

We thought tax reform meant lowering rates and broadening the base by eliminating or cutting back on various deductions, credits, and loopholes. That’s what the Bowles-Simpson commission proposed. That’s what Paul Ryan and David Camp are working on. And that’s

Obama's 'Framework' for Perpetual Deficits and Higher Taxes

Big Government has received an outline of President Obama’s ‘framework’ for reducing the federal budget deficit. The White House claims the ‘framework’ will trim $4 Trillion, over 12 years from the deficit. The President will deliver a speech on this

Feminists' Equal Pay Charade

Today is Equal Pay Day, so named by the National Committee for Pay Equity, which represents feminist groups like NOW and the National Council of Women’s Organizations. According to Marxist-feminist logic, women have to work through April 12 before they

UN Military Forces Supercede Ivory Coast's Sovereignty

The UN’s blatant disregard for state sovereignty and its decision to choose a winner is outrageous. With the advance of rebel forces, on Monday U.N. peacekeepers and French troops launched it’s own military offensive against Ivory Coast President, Laurent Gbagbo.

A Palestinian State In The United Nations By September?

While the eyes of the world are focused on Libya, Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have been moving ahead with plans to discuss reconciliation, with the expectation that the United Nations will create a Palestinian state in September. Palestinian president

Hugo Chavez, Journalism Award-Winner in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – Hugo Chavez is getting a journalism award in Argentina. The Venezuelan leader regularly clashes with critical media, but the University of La Plata is giving him its Rodolfo Walsh Prize on Tuesday for what it

Bill O'Reilly, The 'Rape Factor', And Islam

Educable? At least by her? Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here [3]), Wafa Sultan, courageous author of the indispensable jeremiad “A God Who Hates [4],” strove gamely to educate Bill O’Reilly–often seemingly impenetrable [5] by

If the Government Can't Ban Speech, Can It Compel It?

In Citizens United v. FEC the Supreme Court rejected the idea that the government may determine whose speech is worthy of protection under the First Amendment. As a result of the decision, individuals, small businesses, corporations, labor unions, and non-profit

Seize Freedom Excerpt One: What We Face

[The following was excerpted from Rep. Thaddeus McCotter’s book, Seize Freedom: American Truths and Renewal in a Chaotic Age – used with permission.] Right now, parents suffer sleepless nights worrying that they will lose their jobs, their homes, their health