National Blog - page 309
Liberty NewsWire: February 8, 2012
Iran is capable of hitting U.S. military forces anywhere in the world if attacked by the United States, its ambassador to Moscow was quoted as saying at a news conference on Wednesday.Reuters reproted that Russia's Interfax news agency quoted [...]
Liberty NewsWire: February 6, 2012
The idea that public education does not have to mean government education was a trailblazing one in the 1950s, when Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman first outlined the idea of school vouchers. To paraphrase Friedman, just because [...]
Liberty NewsWire: Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Much of the debate over this bill has focused on the political issue of executive authority versus rule of law. In doing so it has overlooked the indirect and insidious effects the new law may have on the United States' largely successful [...]
Liberty NewsWire: Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Chances are, if you have been at an U.S. airport lately, you've been inside a tubular body scanning machine called a "backscatter," named for the way it scatters electrons. On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators introduced [...]
Liberty NewsWire: January 31, 2012
President Barack Obama in an online "conversation" with American voters on Monday, failed to answer a barrage of questions about marijuana legalization or the drug war. Although 18 out of 20 of the most popular questions submitted by [...]
Liberty NewsWire Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
E-Verify is a federal background check system that its proponents intend to be used on every person seeking work in the United States. Once in place, E-Verify would expand to new uses, giving the federal government direct regulatory control of [...]
Senator Paul Calls Out Obama for "Lawless and Unconstitutional Behavior"
This morning, Senator Paul spoke out against President Obama's unconstitutional "recess" appointments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ygZjql18xsThe Hill reports Rand called out President Obama by saying: " am [...]
Liberty NewsWire: February 2, 2012
The coalition of non-AMA doctor groups is concerned not only with patient access and the preservation of the sacred doctor-patient relationship, but also with the onerous rules that will be created and controlled by local, Obamacare-mandated [...]
Senator Lee Slams Obama's Unconstitutional Appointments
During a Judiciary Committee business meeting this morning, Senator Mike Lee slammed the Obama administration for their unconstitutional "recess" appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the National Labor [...]
"This is America, not Canada or North Korea." says Dr. Jane Orient
Dr. Orient has an op-ed in the Washington Times entitled "Orient: Uncle Sam exacts penalty for quiting Medicare..." In its she asks about the role of special interests in protecting the Medicare System including the AMA. She [...]