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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When Barack Obama strides to the podium of the U.S. House of Representatives to offer his fourth (and hopefully last) State of the Union address on January 24, it will mark a milestone in government dysfunction. And believe it or not, we're referring to something other than the Obama administration's
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By James Sherk || Who could fault a worker who did not pay dues to the Teamsters? In the past two years the Department of Labor has charged or convicted of corruption 11 Teamsters officers. A government monitor recently accused the union’s president, Jimmy Hoffa, of trying to bribe election opponents
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By Rick Manning || U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch released a shocking report on January 10 regarding the outstanding public debt that threatens to sink our state and local governments under a sea of red ink. Hatch, who serves as the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee rang alarm bells over the
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Unlike Mitt Romney - who wants to blow an extra $2 trillion that America doesn't have on military spending (even though such spending has nearly doubled over the past decade) - Ron Paul wants to put those cuts on the table along with everything else in Washington, D.C. Imagine that ... government
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Seasonal gains drove the American economy to create 200,000 jobs in December, causing the nation's unemployment rate to edge down to 8.5 percent from a revised 8.7 percent in November. Meanwhile the nation's underemployment rate - a broader, more accurate measure of joblessness - also ticked down
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Still think Ron Paul's foreign policy views are kooky? Two weeks after a deadly wave of bombings killed 63 people in Baghdad, warring religious sects in Iraq are once again blowing each other up. Well, it's more likely that al-Qaeda in Iraq is blowing people up - hoping to incite sectarian violence. A
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By Robert Romano || Polling in early election battleground states Iowa and New Hampshire finds likely Republican voters deeply opposed to bailing out European banks that bet poorly on the sovereign debt of socialist governments like Greece. As reported by John Fund in The National Review, overall,
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By Hans von Spakovsky || Attorney General Eric Holder put a lump of coal in South Carolina’s Christmas stocking on Dec. 23 when he objected to the state’s new voter ID law. By ignoring inconvenient facts and clear legal precedent, Holder showed once again that politics and ideology—not the rule
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U.S. President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Congress to raise the nation's debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion - the third installment of the "debt dereliction deal" that was reached five months ago. That agreement called for $2.4 trillion in new deficit spending over a seventeen-month period - which
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From 2004 to 2010 - a six-year span that included the worst economic downturn to hit this nation in eight decades - politicians of both parties who created and exploited this financial crisis saw their personal fortunes grow. In fact, members of the U.S. Congress saw their net worth climb by 15 percent
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This website hasn't devoted a whole lot of energy to the "Fast and Furious scandal," a botched U.S. Department of Justice sting that deliberately introduced more than 2,500 guns into the North American marketplace in the hopes of busting Mexican drug cartels. Don't get us wrong ... we think the scandal
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