Issues
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself,” warns Ron Paul, the former Congressman from Texas and presidential candidate.
It is always amazing how many serious issues are not discussed seriously, but instead simply generate assertions and counter-assertions.
After the Boston Marathon bombing, various “experts” began calling for more cooperation between U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies.
Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) is right: The only way to fix the "Obama phone" subsidy is to end it altogether. Then the other problems associated with the subsidy — corruption, crony capitalism, waste, and so on — become irrelevant.
In a New York Times/CBS News poll, only 24 percent answering said that the United States should do something about the fighting in Syria.
Someone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible.
A man in Britain declared brain dead woke up just in time to escape the death sentence of doctors preparing to remove him from life support and harvest his organs.
The CIA has been sending bags of cash to the office of Afghan president Hamid Karzai every month for over 10 years, fueling corruption but buying precious little influence.
As the Senate moves toward likely passage of legislation to allow states to tax Internet sales, some unusual coalitions continue to push for and against the bill.
The old food stamp program now called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is growing so quickly and costing so much that nibbling around the edges of it with bills such as those presented by Senator John Thune and Congressman Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) will have negligible effect.
