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  • Can Biden Murder Trump and Get Away With it?

    Monday, March 11, 2024
    Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more
  • Bush’s Secret Society and Geronimo’s Skull

    Thursday, February 19, 2009
    While they were at Yale, both Presidents Bush were members of the Skull and Bones secret society. (So was Sen. John Kerry, George W. Bush’s opponent in the 2004 presidential election.) According to legend, in 1918, Prescott Bush, father of George ...   read more
  • Infrastructure Job Plan Skewed Towards States with Low Unemployment

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    The stimulus bill allocates $98.3 billion for projects related to transportation and infrastructure. These expenditures are expected to generate large numbers of jobs. However, states with low unemployment are getting more money per capita unemplo...   read more
  • The Danger of Manufacturing Decline: Patrick J. Buchanan

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    Writing in favor of the creation of a new industrial policy for the United States, Pat Buchanan cites some grim facts. “As a source of American jobs, manufacturing, for the first time in our history, fell below health care and education in 2001, b...   read more
  • Obama Reverses Bush Policy on Mercury Pollution

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    Throughout its eight years in power, the Bush administration stubbornly opposed U.S. involvement in any international treaty that would control mercury pollution. Mercury, most of which is generated by coal-fueled power plants, settles in the ocea...   read more
  • Republican Districts Gain More Jobs from Stimulus than Democratic Ones

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    According to estimates released by the White House, each of the 435 Congressional districts in the United States will gain between 6,000 and 11,000 jobs as a result of the just passed stimulus bill. However, strange as it may seem, Republican dist...   read more
  • U.S. Military Looking for Skilled Immigrants

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009
    The United States Army will begin offering American citizenship to skilled immigrants who are living in this country with temporary visas, in exchange for their military services.   Currently, only immigrants who are permanent residents with “gr...   read more
  • What’s in the Stimulus Bill?: Aid to the Economically Stressed

    Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    During the presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain, there was lots and lots of talk about helping the middle-class, but we didn’t hear much about the 38 million Americans who are living below the poverty line. That’s because lowe...   read more
  • What’s in the Stimulus Bill?: The $5 Billion Sentence

    Monday, February 16, 2009
    One sentence in the new stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) reads, “For an additional amount for ‘Defense Environmental Cleanup,’ $5,127,000,000.” Five billion dollars is a lot of money to spend without explain...   read more
  • What’s in the Stimulus Bill?: Education

    Monday, February 16, 2009
    One of the biggest winners in the new stimulus package is the field of education. To begin with, in the bill’s section on aid to state and local government, at least $43.8 billion is allocated to reverse cutbacks and layoffs that have been caused ...   read more
  • What’s in the Stimulus Bill?: Infrastructure

    Monday, February 16, 2009
    The new stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) includes $98.3 billion for transportation and infrastructure. The biggest ticket item is $26.7 billion to go to the Federal Highway Administration to give grants to s...   read more
  • Latin American Leaders Call for End to Drug War

    Sunday, February 15, 2009
    Representatives of nine Latin American countries, including ex-presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, have issued a report calling for a reevaluation of the “War on Drugs.” Among the other members of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and ...   read more
  • What’s in the Stimulus Bill?: Tax Cuts

    Sunday, February 15, 2009
    To hear its critics talk about it, you would think that the just-passed stimulus bill (aka the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009”) was a wild-eyed liberal trick full of wasteful spending. In fact, the $789 billion bill includes $280 ...   read more
  • Blackwater to Hide Behind New Name

    Saturday, February 14, 2009
    Once powerful Blackwater has such a tarnished reputation that it is changing its name to Xe (pronounced “zee”). Founded as a private military company by Erik Prince in 1990, the company formerly known as Blackwater received more than $1 billion in...   read more
  • Torture Enthusiast Escapes from Berkeley

    Friday, February 13, 2009
    University of California, Berkeley, Professor John Yoo, who crafted the Bush administration’s legal justification of torture, is on leave from his tenured post at UC Berkeley to teach foreign relations law as a visiting professor at Chapman Univer...   read more
  • 87,000 U.S. Weapons Missing in Afghanistan

    Friday, February 13, 2009
    An audit report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed the disturbing fact that more than one third of the 242,203 small arms and light weapons shipped to the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police cannot be a...   read more
  • More Americans Want Bush Investigated Than Believe in Evolution

    Friday, February 13, 2009
    Even as Americans deal with the pressures of two wars and a struggling economy, a USA Today/Gallup Poll found that about two-thirds of those surveyed are in favor of investigating some of the Bush administration’s tactics that may have been illega...   read more
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