The Free Beacon has details on this. The House and Senate versions of this bill both come close to $1 trillion: A number of policy groups slammed the farm bill currently under consideration in the House of Representatives as bloated, regressive, and a handout to big farming businesses at a press conference Monday morning on …
What would the Iran-Contra scandal have looked like in a social media driven world? How about the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Would it have changed anything? Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were two of the most gifted politicians of the modern era. The two, working with similar gifts of charisma and folksiness, were able to look …
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Fighters aligned with the US government supported Free Syrian Army massacred Christians and destroyed churches in the city of Homs. More details of a massacre in Homs late last month have emerged following the global outcry of a massacre in Deir el-Zour yesterday. The massacre, carried out by Free Syrian Army militants reportedly targeted men, …
The Obama Administration has agreed to arm the Syrian rebels. The Administration is also now directly accusing the Assad regime of using chemical weapons. The Obama administration announced Thursday that it has determined that the Syrian government has deployed chemical weapons against opposition groups, crossing what President Obama had called a “red line” and prompting …
Is the Fed about to hike rates? Not so fast, says Fed mouthpiece WSJ reporter Jon Hilsenrath: Since last December the Fed has been promising to keep short-term interest rates near zero until the jobless rate reaches 6.5%, as long as inflation doesn’t take off. Most forecasters don’t see the jobless rate reaching that threshold …
The Syrian rebels that the Obama Administration has agreed to arm with small arms and anti-tank missiles have been at work imposing Sharia law in the parts of Syria they control. The evidence was incontrovertible, captured on video and posted on YouTube for all the world to see. During a demonstration against the Syrian regime, Wael …
When Jacob Perry emailed me about perhaps writing a guest post for PFoL, I immediately thought to myself, “I wonder if we can get him to join the team?” After all, Jacob has big background in politics as a consultant, strategist and campaign manager would bring aboard a person with a wealth of insider knowledge. …
Various publications have talked about the rise of food trucks for the past few years. Reporters from New York to Los Angeles to Salt Lake City to Indianapolis to Syracuse to Boise have written articles remarking on the increase of these mobile culinary venues in their cities. And their popularity is nothing to shake off either: In a 2010 survey by …
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The Syrian rebels that John McCain, Marco Rubio, most of the US Senate and many in the Obama Administration want to arm launched their latest round of ethnic cleansing a couple of days ago. Sunni Muslim insurgents have killed about 60 Shi’ite Muslims in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town where President Bashar al-Assad’s agents had …
The Supreme Court has just ruled in the case of Association of Molecular Pathology v USPTO, unanimously agreeing that natural DNA is not patentable. Pocket Full of Liberty covered this important issue recently. The case involved Myriad Genetic’s monopoly on diagnostic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations that are associated with breast and ovarian cancers. The …