For the record, we're not "birthers." Nor do we think U.S. President Barack Obama is a Muslim. We view both allegations as sideshows, drawing needed focus away from the real problem with Obama - the fact that he is a unapologetic socialist. "As we’ve said from the beginning of this debate,
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By Robert E. Freer, Jr. || “I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” ~Will Rogers Benjamin Franklin, older, ailing, clearly in his twilight is one of the few of our founding fathers to participate actively in both our national formation as a member of the Continental
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By Jim DeMint || Today the Senate is voting to disapprove the debt ceiling increase as requested by President Obama. Unfortunately, this is a hollow gesture as Congress passed a deal last year that made the increase possible. It is disingenuous to vote for a deal that increases the debt by trillions
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U.S. President Barack Obama's latest push to "spread the wealth around" (even more so than he's done already) hit a speed bump on Thursday when it was revealed that dozens of his staffers owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Specifically, a recent report from the Internal Revenue Service
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By Howard Rich || When U.S. President Barack Obama strode into the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives this week and delivered his fourth State of the Union address, it marked exactly 1,000 days since the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time the Senate passed
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U.S. President Barack Obama offered a vision of class warfare, tax hikes, new regulations and more government spending in his fourth State of the Union address on Tuesday - adding policy specifics to the doctrine of rhetorical fluff he unveiled last month in Kansas. He also took credit for modest
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By Howard Rich || Contrary to the rhetoric of our leaders, U.S. taxpayers are still subsidizing an ongoing bailout of the flailing Eurozone. This expansive financial commitment — components of which have been cleverly disguised as currency swaps — comes at a time when our country can least afford
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) - son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul - was briefly detained on Monday at a Nashville airport by officers of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Paul was detained after refusing to submit to one of the agency's invasive pat downs. According
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By Jeb Hensarling || Three years ago this week, President Obama celebrated his inauguration. As he prepares for his State of the Union address, it’s worth reviewing the previous messages he’s delivered to a nation eager to create jobs. In 2009, we were told that if we passed his ‘stimulus’ plan,
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U.S. President Barack Obama is blocking the construction of a 1,700-mile oil pipeline that would create tens of thousands of new jobs and help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. What's Obama's objection to the $7 billion Keystone XL project? Apparently he's miffed that Republicans forced
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We were looking for a good excuse to use "Rats" as our song of the day here on FITS ... and now we have one. And in the words of one of our favorite limited government supporters, it will make your "blood boil" but also probably cause you to simultaneously "laugh (your) ass off." According to an interview
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Wikipedia, the global online encyclopedia, will "go dark" on Wednesday in protest of a pair of bills that would give the federal government expansive new power over the flow of information on the internet. "This is going to be wow," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tweeted Monday. "I hope Wikipedia will
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