R.J. Smith As people in Utah and Nevada (and other places!) can tell you, it's too bad Congress is so bad at taking advice. With President Obama's new designations of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold ... READ MORE
The following is a statement by Bonner Cohen, Ph. D., senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, on the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada by ... READ MORE
Luke 2: 1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And ... READ MORE
Thrilled or concerned about the incoming changes in Washington? Worried that the amount of political divisiveness in our country today is, except for the actual Civil War, unprecedented? Joe Roche has a reminder for all of you – perhaps especially ... READ MORE
Hate to say it, but I think Apple, one of America's premier companies, may have its best days behind it. Yesterday, I wrote about incompetence at the U.S. Postal Service. Today, it's Apple. Used to be, you paid more for ... READ MORE
The news media is running yet another story about a postal worker throwing away the public’s mail — this time, in the woods. The post office tells the news media that the man who threw the mail away is a ... READ MORE
The hacker known as "Guccifer 2.0" is the source of an intriguing new article in the online publication The Intercept. The article purports to reproduce notes taken by the staff of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (the Democratic Party's arm ... READ MORE
Should taxpayer dollars be used for abortions? On the 9/30/16 episode of RT Network’s “The Big Picture,” one panelist suggested that abortion should be covered by the government through a single-payer system. Horace Cooper, legal analyst at the National Center ... READ MORE
Responding to rejoinders that conservatives are racists and bigots, I joined the Thom Hartmann show last week to set the record straight about the federal government’s lawsuit against North Carolina’s public accommodation law. First, a little background. North Carolina passed ... READ MORE
When the CBS television show “Madam Secretary” premiered in 2014, many conservatives assumed it was simply a propaganda piece for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As I have watched it, however, I have been impressed that the show is ... READ MORE
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