Fri Apr 23, 2:05 am ET WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US Air Force unmanned spacecraft has blasted off from Florida, amid a veil of secrecy about its military mission. The robotic space plane, or X-37B, lifted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V rocket at 7:52 pm local time (2352 GMT) Thursday, according to video released by the [...]

“The construction applied … to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power … ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.”   —Thomas Jefferson, Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798 Social [...]

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By Mark Alexander · Thursday, April 22, 2010 “By exclusive property, the productions of the earth and the means of subsistence are secured and preserved, as well as multiplied. What belongs to no one is wasted by every one. What belongs to one man in particular is the object of his economy and care.” –James [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, April 22, 2010 If one tries hard enough and is clever enough, one can find a federal judge to rule on just about anything. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group of atheists and agnostics based in Madison, Wis., filed a lawsuit asking Judge Barbara Crabb to order the [...]

By Ann Coulter (Archive) · Thursday, April 22, 2010 Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC special on Timothy McVeigh this past Monday night did not come a moment too soon. As Maddow explained in the introduction to her show: “Nine years after his execution, we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh’s voice from the grave echoes in the [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, April 22, 2010 Current American relations with our once-staunch ally Israel are at their lowest ebb in the last 50 years. The Obama administration seems as angry at the building of Jewish apartments in Jerusalem as it is intent on reaching out to Iran and Syria, Israel’s mortal [...]

Apr 22, 2010 By Lloyd Marcus I am exhausted. I returned home after performing at tea parties in 42 cities, from Searchlight, NV to Washington, D.C., in nineteen days while on the Tea Party Express III tour. I’m black conservative singer/songwriter, entertainer, author, and spokesperson Lloyd Marcus.   I wish to share with you how [...]

By REP. JOHN BOEHNER Posted 04/21/2010 06:12 PM ET We cannot restore confidence in our economy unless we fully address the root causes of the financial crisis and take definitive steps to ensure that taxpayers are never again forced to pick up the tab for bad bets on Wall Street. The legislation President Obama is promoting, [...]

Posted 04/21/2010 06:48 PM ET  View Enlarged Image Taxation: Ask almost anyone — economists, politicians, entrepreneurs, average Americans — and they’ll tell you a value-added tax is a bad idea. So why does the White House continue to consider it? After hearing VAT opponents smeared as anti-government radicals and worse, we decided to poll Americans on the [...]