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Gingrich Surging in Florida, Quinnipiac Poll Shows

A surging Newt Gingrich has the momentum in a tight race with Mitt Romney in Florida, a poll of Republicans planning to vote in the state’s Jan. 31 presidential primary shows. Romney has 36 percent support while Gingrich is backed by 34 percent in the survey released today by Hamden, Connecticut- based Quinnipiac University. The […]

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class

This week President Obama handed down what may prove to be one of the most fateful decisions of his entire administration when he rejected the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline carrying oil from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of Houston. The decision did not win him one new vote but […]

Partial Victory for Constitution in US v. Jones: Rebuilding the Property Foundation of the Fourth Amendment

Joe Miller and his Restoring Liberty Action Committee served as amicus co-counsel in US v. Jones.  Yesterday, the Supreme Court adopted part of the reasoning advanced in that amicus briefing.  This was a “win” for those of us who want to see the foundations of the Constitution restored to our nation.  The following is attorneys […]

TSA Confronts The Wrong Senator

We have all been humiliated at the hands of the Transportation Security Administration, but this time the TSA may have to pay a price for stepping over the line. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is the latest victim. According to AP: “He was stopped briefly by security at the Nashville airport when a scanner found an […]

Romney Paid $3M In Federal Income Tax In 2010

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seven times that from his investments. Those earnings, $21.7 million, put him among the wealthiest of American taxpayers. At the same time, Romney gave nearly $3 million to charity — about half of that amount to […]

Gingrich Says Romney Desperate, Punching Wildly

Newt Gingrich is keeping up the heated tone of his debate exchanges with Mitt Romney, calling his Republican presidential rival a “desperate guy” throwing wild punches. Gingrich on Tuesday said Romney was “outrageously dishonest” when he accused the former House speaker of lobbying for mortgage giant Freddie Mac. He noted that Romney himself was an […]

The Fox News Feminists

As tens of thousands of Americans stage a “March for Life” against abortion in Washington, D.C., new Fox News Channel paid contributor Sally Kohn will be singing the praises of the abortion industry. Kohn, a lesbian feminist, is an alumnus of the Women’s Media Center, which celebrates the 39th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the […]