Another Government Agency is Under Water
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is underwater by $26 billion. But a small premium increase will fix things up just fine. When the Pension...
Politics
NSA Won’t Disclose How Many Americans are Being Spied On
As the sprawling surveillance site being constructed by the National Security Agency (NSA) in...
Intelligence Chief Threatens Leakers with Lie Detector Tests
Now that Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed two U.S. Attorneys to investigate the alleged...
Jimmy Carter Condemns U.S. Human Rights Violations Citing UN, Not Bill of Rights
“The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights,”...
The $80B Food Stamp Program: Where’s the Money Going?
American taxpayers dole out $80 billion every year to subsidize food stamps for the...
The War on Poverty: $15 Trillion and Nothing to Show for It
Fifteen trillion dollars: That’s how much American taxpayers have forked over in the name...
Citizens United Is Breaking Up Corporate Dominance of Elections
With the 2012 political season heating up, many people are calling for a ban...
Romney’s Weekend With Establishment Bush-era Warmongers
Presumed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney recycled establishment Bush-era foreign policy neoconservative apparatchiks June...
Citizens United Reaffirmed, 5-4, as Supreme Court Strikes Down Montana Law
The U.S. Supreme Court definitively reaffirmed its 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision in...
CFR Tells America: Don’t Worry About Domestic Drones
Many Americans are justifiably anxious about drone use by the federal government against the...
Ron Paul Keeps Winning the Battles, but What About the War?
Word out of Iowa is that Ron Paul won a majority of that state’s...
Obama’s Power Grabs Rival Bush’s, Contradict Promises
President Obama, after years of criticizing George W. Bush's power grabs, is now aggrandizing...
Senate Passes Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of...
House Oversight Committee Votes Contempt Charges Against Atty. Gen. Holder (23-17)
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted along partisan lines to bring contempt...
Rubio as VP: Is the Fix In or Is He Out?
As is now being widely reported, Mitt Romney told reporters in Michigan on Tuesday...
Ron Paul Promises to Block Military Operations in Syria
On Tuesday Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) rose to speak in the House of Representatives...
Sen Paul Responds to Romney’s Iran War Remarks
GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney asserts that he would not need to seek congressional...
Romney Says He Wouldn’t Need Approval of Congress to Attack Iran
Appearing with Bob Schieffer on Sunday’s Face the Nation, Republican presidential candidate and “presumptive...
Mexico and Canada Invited to Join the Secret TPP Negotiations
This week President Obama and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk announced that Canada...
Allen West Blasts DOJ For Meddling in Florida Voter Purge
Responding to an uproar over Florida’s plan to purge its voter rolls, Allen West...
