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On January 19th, 2010, Massachusetts voters will decide who gets to serve in former Senator Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat.
The choices: Democrat Martha More »
In a letter dated December 30, 2009, C-SPAN called upon President Obama and United States Congressional leaders to conduct final health care overhaul More »
A new youth-driven political movement dedicated to the principles of localism, individual liberty, and fiscal responsibility hopes to usher in hundreds, if not More »
Despite one of the worst financial crises in American history, lawmakers are expected by the end of 2009 to reintroduce a bill that would give all U.S. newborns a $500 nest egg to promote savings and asset accumulation. The estimated cost to the federal government and taxpayers would be $37.5 billion over a 10-year period. The funds could only be withdrawn when the child turns 18 and used for specific purposes…
With flags flying at half-staff around the nation, soldiers and civilians continue to mourn the loss of 13 and the wounding of at least 30 at Fort Hood, Texas. First responders reported hearing, “pop, pop, pop,” as they arrived on the scene at the Soldier Readiness Processing center on Thursday. The suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an Army psychiatrist. Investigators what to know what made Hasan open fire on his own…
Enacted into law as a compromise measure by the Clinton Administration, over 13,000 troops have been discharged from the military since 1993 under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Military code has held that unit cohesion trust, as well as living conditions that created forced intimacy with little privacy justified the ban on gays actively serving. President Obama wants to repeal the law to bring equality to the armed forces…
Arguably one of the most colorful and shocking representatives to serve in the United States Congress, James A. Traficant, Jr. recently was released…
Grassroots activists from all 50 states– riding on some 450 buses — on Saturday rallied at the nation’s capitol to protest what they called an encroachment of federal government power in their lives. The event, sponsored nationally by FreedomWorks, was the culmination of nearly six months of tea-party protest rallies held across America since February 27. Organizers said nearly 200 events in 45 states were being held…
Van Jones has quite a controversial career. He comes from Oakland, where he did become a convicted felon, got out of prison and became a communist…
As we upload, tweet, update, comment, and consume our digital lives away it seems our definition of a reasonable search and seizure has a need for…