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The Right to Hunt | Print |  E-mail
Written by Bruce Walker   
Sunday, 21 March 2010 00:00

hunterHunters across America are wary of the political intentions of groups like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) In particular, hunters are worried that PETA and other animal rights activists may be able to exert enough influence to get laws or local ordinances passed that make it difficult or impossible to continue hunting.

 
Greenspan’s Implausible Denial | Print |  E-mail
Written by Bob Adelmann   
Saturday, 20 March 2010 20:40

GreenspanIn his 48-page paper presented on March 19 to the Brookings Institution, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan now blames the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resurgence of the Chinese economy as causes of the Great Recession that was ushered in on his watch. And his arguments have just enough plausibility to be considered, if only briefly. But looking more closely is another matter.

 
Stupak Measure Could Delay Healthcare Bill | Print |  E-mail
Written by Jack Kenny   
Saturday, 20 March 2010 16:30

StupakThe Stupak amendment is back and may yet derail or delay passage of healthcare reform legislation that the House of Representatives is expected to vote on tomorrow. Last year, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) managed to get language into the House-passed healthcare bill that forbids federal funding of abortion under the healthcare measure and stipulates that nothing in the legislation or the rules to be promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare will require any health insurance policy to include abortion coverage. The Senate bill, now before the House, lacks the clear ban that Stupak is demanding in order to support the bill. Other anti-abortion Democrats are expected to oppose the bill without the Stupak amendment.

 
Can We Trust the CBO's Healthcare FIgures? | Print |  E-mail
Written by Raven Clabough   
Friday, 19 March 2010 18:15

healthcare costsHouse Majority Whip James Clyburn and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were positively giddy on Thursday morning when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released preliminary estimates of the financial impact of the House reconciliation package on national healthcare. The package is said to mirror the proposal President Obama outlined in February as a compromise between the bills passed in the House and Senate last year.

 
Senators Push Biometric ID Card | Print |  E-mail
Written by Jack Kenny   
Friday, 19 March 2010 16:34

Two prominent U.S. Senators are promoting national ID cards as a means of mending the nation's "badly broken" immigration system. Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have said they will co-sponsor legislation to require all workers in the U.S., citizens as well as aliens, to have a biometric Social Security cards, with a unique personal identifier such as a fingerprint or eye scan, in order to work.

 
States in Tumult Over National Healthcare Bill | Print |  E-mail
Written by Joe Wolverton, II   
Friday, 19 March 2010 16:15

OtterIn the aftermath of the killing of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony tried to assume the tyrannical power seized by his mentor. Cicero, the famed Roman friend of liberty, opposed Antony’s various attempts to aggregate all power into his own hands. Time and time again, Cicero rose in the Senate and the in the Forum to denounce Antony and catalog his crimes against the republic.

 
Obama's Debt Commission Means More Spending, Debt, and Deception | Print |  E-mail
Written by William F. Jasper   
Friday, 19 March 2010 14:00

"By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America ... there is established within the Executive Office of the President the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform." Thus begins the Executive Order signed by President Barack Obama on February 18, creating what is being called the Debt Commission.

 
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