National

A Free Speech Landmark
Freedom has had its best week in many years. On Tuesday, Massachusetts put a Senate check on a reckless Congress, and yesterday the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision supporting free political speech by overturning some of Congress’s more intrusive limits on election spending. In a season of marauding government, the Constitution rides to the [...]

Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen
The United States still intends to send some Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility back to Yemen despite a terrorist threat there, President Barack Obama’s terrorism czar said Sunday. John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism, said on CNN’s “State of the Union that the failed Christmas Day [...]

Democrats' worst nightmare: Terrorism on their watch
From the time he launched his campaign for president three years ago, Barack Obama had to consider how he would react to the first serious act of terrorism during the campaign, or if he won, on his watch. Considering how he’s systematically taken apart the Bush administration policies which kept us safe you can understand [...]
U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes
From the NY TImes: The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than good. Some experts argue the program has impeded economic recovery by delaying a wrenching yet cleansing process through which [...]