On August 14, 1971, President Richard Nixon took the country completely off the gold standard. Debt ceased to be an obligation and became a way of life. Now it is 2008, and the chickens are coming home to roost!
By Steven Yates at 2008-05-09 19:48
At the largest pipe collectors gathering in the country, conventioneers are told they cannot smoke in a convention hall they rented. And as we watch the glee with which health Nazis treat others like marionettes, what does it tell us about the tolerance of the left?
By Selwyn Duke at 2008-05-09 19:27
The bill(s) purportedly would alleviate concerns about The REAL ID Act of 2005 relative to the act’s huge unfunded federal mandate on financially stressed state governments and its serious threat to privacy and civil liberties.
On April 8, Canada introduced a bill into the House of Commons that has highly worrisome implications for natural health products and those who consume and use them. The same implications might be in store for Americans as well.
By Ann Shibler at 2008-05-08 23:21
Two recent interim elections for vacant House seats should have been won by Republicans. But Democrats took both and forecasts for the fall elections expect many more GOP losses.
By John F. McManus at 2008-05-08 22:52
In a May 7 "Analysis" piece in the New York Daily News entitled "Ugly truth why Hillary Clinton won't quit," Thomas M. DeFrank provided a novel explanation about why Senator Hillary Clinton refused to drop out of the presidential race following her defeat in North Carolina and her anemic victory in Indiana in Tuesday’s primaries: Racism.
By Warren Mass at 2008-05-07 23:02