In a recent article featured in the New York Post and highlighted by the Cato Institute, Michael Tanner challenges Democrats to stop merely attacking Republicans for demanding Social Security reform and put forth a plan of their own. The facts are simple, there is not enough money to sustain Social ... More of this article

"Justice" is harsher and more people find themselves behind bars in America than any other wealthy country. As a percentage of population, the United States imprisons five times more people than Britain, nine times more than Germany, and and whopping 12 times more than Germany. Why is this? For star... More of this article

"A House panel has approved a measure that would legalize online gambling and put the increasingly popular Internet-based activity under federal regulation, Dow Jones ($) reported Thursday. The House Financial Services Committee voted 41-22 to approve the legislation, which now could be brought ... More of this article

"Vice President Joe Biden met with state and local government officials from across the country last year to provide guidance on spending federal stimulus funds. Biden implored local leaders to focus on only essential infrastructure needs that will put people back to work and to avoid frivolous p... More of this article

"A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's immigration law from taking effect, delivering a last-minute victory to opponents of the crackdown. The overall law will still take effect Thursday, but without the provisions that angered opponents — including ... More of this article

"The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote. "What we are submitting is the idea that the president should be selected by the majority of p... More of this article

"Rafael Dominguez, a New York-based regional partnership coordinator for the US Census Bureau since early 2008 has filed a petition to run as a Democrat for Assemblyman for New York’s 82nd District. Yet, as Census Bureau Associate Director Steve Jost recently commented on a MyTwoCensus.com... More of this article

The residents of Bell, CA are not ready to forgive and forget their city council members for their unprecedented swindling just yet. It seems absurd that the council members could think that simply reducing their gargantuan salaries would sooth their constituents' anger over years of being taken adv... More of this article

"The University of California, Berkeley, has inadvertently stepped into a brewing ethical debate over genetic testing and medical privacy after it asked the incoming freshman class to submit to the campus cotton swabs with DNA samples from their saliva. The unusual experiment is part of Berkeley... More of this article

"WikiLeaks is a website that posts formerly secret documents online in what its members say is the pursuit of transparency and accountability.  Its release of more than 75,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps documents chronicling six years of events in Afghanistan has angered officials in Washin... More of this article

"In the first test of voter sentiment after May's bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters, Thailand's ruling Democrat Party won a by-election in Bangkok on Sunday. Less than an hour after poll results were announced, a bomb exploded at a bus stop in the city center, killing one and injuri... More of this article

"Church bells rang out in unison across Serbia and Kosovo in protest today as Kosovo's declaration of independence was upheld by the International Court of Justice in the Hague ending two and half years of legal limbo for the former Serbian province. Tensions rose with helicopters from the NATO-led... More of this article

President Obama stressed the importance of "ensuring that our government serves as a responsible steward for the tax dollars of the American people" while signing the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act into law. We couldn't agree more but it is doubtful that the Obama administration will... More of this article

"Bell's top administrators, whose hefty salaries have stirred public outrage and calls for investigations, agreed to resign Thursday night during a closed-door City Hall meeting.City Manager Robert Rizzo, Police Chief Randy Adams and Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia will not receive severance p... More of this article

The United States is slated to remove all troops from Iraq by 2011. Currently there is not a large dialogue regarding what the U.S. presence will look like when the troops are pulled, but it is an issue worth examining and will likely become a hot topic as the withdrawl date draws nearer. This is wh... More of this article

When a city manager in a tiny, poor southeastern city in Los Angeles County, where the per capita income is less than half the national average, is making $800,000 a year, taxpayers should be outraged. When the police chief of that same city is being paid almost $500,000, local residents ought t... More of this article

"Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he asked Google Inc. whether it tested its Street View software before using it, which he said should have revealed the unauthorized collection of personal data from wireless computer networks. Blumenthal said he sent a letter today to Google s... More of this article

Darpana Sheth from makenolaw.org explains why new campaign finance laws stifle democracy and discourage participation in the political process rather than level the playing field: "Advocates of campaign finance “reform” often claim that the laws they promote will “protect” d... More of this article

"It’s a place where medical marijuana is already legal, and pot dispensaries are wedged between clothing boutiques and coffee shops. It’s got a marijuana university, Oaksterdam, where attendees can learn the ins and outs of pot politics, horticulture, cooking, even “budtending.... More of this article

"The veteran British journalist and author Alan Shadrake was released on bail in Singapore today after his arrest on suspicion of criminal defamation in relation to his book on the city-state's death penalty. Shadrake, 75, was detained on Sunday after a complaint from the government's media develop... More of this article