For the generation of Americans who grew up with Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, Indian fighter, there is little doubt what kind of a legend he was. He was the same kind of man as portrayed by John Wayne in ...
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A Friend In Need: Poor, Beleaguered Biotech Industry Gets Congressional Protection From Bullying Consumer Advocates And Demented Public Interest Groups
These are not the easiest of times for the pesticide companies, the food manufacturers, and the seed vendors who are responsible for the biotechnology revolution in agriculture. Sure, corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, and Bayer are making profits off of ...
Read More »Senator Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Limit use of Drones
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act this past Tuesday, which would require the government to obtain a warrant before using aerial drones to run surveillance on the United States. Paul says the bill’s purpose ...
Read More »Calls to Subpoena Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious Crosses Party Lines
WASHINGTON, DC – Calls for the congressional subpoena of Attorney General Eric Holder to be enforced are now crossing party lines. Representative Joe Donnelly (Indiana – D) is on record that he supports the House oversight committee’s efforts to question ...
Read More »Conservative Justices Question Key Component of Obamacare in Second Day of Arguments
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While two hours of arguments on the individual mandate provision of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have given no apparent indication how several of the Supreme Court justices might rule on the constitutionality of the mandate, ...
Read More »President Announces Higher Taxes and More Deficit Spending with New Budget
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama will unveil his latest budget proposal Monday during an appearance at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale. The budget request he is sending to Congress is long on election cycle promises with what may prove ...
Read More »President, Congress Admit Debt-Ceiling Debate was Elaborate Prank
WASHINGTON – President Obama and Republican leaders confessed Tuesday to playing a belated April Fools’ joke on the American public in the form of a seemingly apocalyptic debate about the debt ceiling. Amid general giggling and back-slapping at Wednesday’s bipartisan ...
Read More »NFL and Congress Near Deal to Expand League to Reduce Unemployment
NEW YORK – With 13.9 million Americans unemployed, the U.S. Congress stepped up closed-door negotiations Tuesday with the National Football League to expand the number of professional teams and fill them with unemployed Americans. The current version of the plan ...
Read More »Assessing the McCain-Kerry Privacy Act
In early April, Senators John Kerry and John McCain introduced a bill in Congress that would allegedly protect the privacy of Internet users from the unwanted advances of online marketers and retailers. Called the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act ...
Read More »Monkey See Monkey Do
As usual, the talking heads work overtime on pointless news items as though they rank right up there with revolution in Egypt and Pluto’s demotion from planet status. So what is one of these news events? Lindsay Lohan is in ...
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