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America’s Most Dangerous Cities
In March 2008, Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with eight felonies, including perjury and obstruction of justice. In August, he violated his bail agreement and was thrown in jail. His actions were deplorable for anybody, but Kilpatrick was no Average Joe–he was the mayor of Detroit.
Unfortunately for the Motor City, Kilpatrick, 38, is just one ripple [...]
Opinion From The Left: Obama’s High-Velocity Activism
It has been a whirlwind. Even though Barack Obama has been accused of everything from socialism to fascism in his first 100 days in office, the best “-ism” to describe his governing philosophy has been activism.
We may still be in a mess, but at least we aren’t in a malaise.
It has been a headlong rush [...]
Opinion From Europe: Barack Obama and the CIA: Why Does President Pantywaist Hate America So Badly?
If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests [...]
Opinion From The Right: THE FIRST 100 DAYS: An Administration Filled With Far-Left Extremists
Longtime conservative leader Morton Blackwell, a Reagan administration alumni and once the youngest Goldwater delegate at the GOP convention, is perhaps best know as the originator of the phrase “Personnel is policy.”
Blackwell’s observation speaks a great truth about American government. Since no one man or woman can do it all, alone, we have followed [...]
Obama Calls for Return of ‘PAYGO’ Rule to Reduce Federal Deficits
President Obama is looking to the past to help reduce growing federal budget deficits threatening the country’s future.
In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama called on Congress to pass a pay-as-you-go legislation, known as PAYGO, that would require new federal spending to be offset by budgetary cuts or tax hikes.
“We need to adhere [...]
Gore Vs. Gingrich: Just Like Old Times? Not Really
Al Gore paused during his descent from atop the marble Capitol steps on his way to spar with an old rival, Newt Gingrich . Grinning as he glided toward a former aide he had spotted, Gore joked, “Just like old times.”
Maybe for Gore. But Democrats running the House these days made sure it wasn’t for [...]
Learning To Live With Schizophrenia – One Teen’s Story
The intrusive voices popped into William “Bill” Garrett’s head. “They’re coming for you,” the voices told the 18-year-old. “Find somewhere to hide; they’re going to get you.”
They told the Johns Hopkins University freshman that his father had poisoned the family dog, his sister had injected crystal methamphetamine into his pet lizard and his grandmother had [...]
U.S. Contingency Plan Would Deploy National Guard Troops Along Mexican Border
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border under a $350 million initiative that would expand the U.S. military’s role in the drug war, according to Obama administration officials.
The circumstances under which the troops could be deployed have not been determined, the officials said. [...]
U.S. Center For Disease Control On High Alert Over ‘Swine Flu’ Epidemic
US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an unprecedented multi-strain swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States.
“It’s very obvious that we are very concerned. We’ve stood up emergency operation centers,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesman Dave Daigle told [...]
Democrats Agree to Fast Track for Health Care Revamp
Democrats reached a tentative agreement to use a parliamentary procedure that would prevent Senate Republicans from blocking President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system, congressional aides said.
The agreement calls for the same procedure, known as reconciliation, to be used to try to pass Obama’s proposal to cut federal subsidies to [...]
