Shortly after the bombing of the Boston Marathon that took three lives and seriously injured scores of others, three black helicopters, accompanied by heavily armed soldiers, were spotted buzzing downtown Chicago. Before this report is dismissed as the paranoid meanderings of...

Less than two weeks after the bombing of the Boston Marathon, details are still emerging about whether U.S. intel agencies, specifically the FBI, were on the job and whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev slipped through an inefficient web of overlapping and confusing jurisdictions -- despite billions of U.S. dollars funding multiple intel...

It was with great relief when the manhunt and apprehension for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brought one chapter of the Boston Marathon bombing to a conclusion -- even as that manhunt raised important legal, constitutional questions. That Friday was obviously a terrifying experience for the citizens of Boston and especially Watertown --...

In the aftermath of the bombing at the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon, much of the American public, mainstream media and politicians have responded with a level of shock as if the sovereignty of the United States, Our Homeland, would be so honored and respected that such a...

As the Colorado General Assembly moves to become the second state to adopt gun control legislation since the Newtown tragedy, the Basic Freedom Defense Fund has set its sights on recalling the president of the State Senate and at least two other legislators, prominent proponents...

In the summer of 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Revenue Act into law to pay for New Deal programs. The Act raised tax rates from 59% to 75% on those Americans earning more than $5...

During Attorney General Eric Holder's March 6th testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder, in response to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's dissatisfaction with the administration's lack of transparency on intelligence matters, informed the Committee that President Obama would, within a "relatively short period of time," be publicly speaking to...

As automatic sequestration budget cuts loom, the Department of Energy has managed to keep a $5 billion plutonium plant alive - just barely. According to an Office of Budget and Management proposed budget, funding for the controversial Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel program would be cut 75 percent...

Despite assurances that 'sharing the sacrifice' necessary as a result of the 2008 economic collapse is the patriotic duty of every American, the latest challenge to that burden-sharing philosophy are the school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics of Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1181, the country's largest transit union...

Despite Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's repeated pronouncements that the Republican stranglehold on the Senate's filibuster could no longer be tolerated, that is exactly the final outcome of recent reform efforts. With the success of important Obama legislative initiatives depending on a Democratic Senate for enactment, what was Harry Reid...

Since President George Washington issued the first presidential pardon in 1794 to leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion, subsequent presidents liberally wielded their authority to grant executive clemency and commutation of sentences.

Modeled after the English Kings' royal decrees of clemency, framers of the

On October, 26, just two weeks prior to her affair with General David Petraeus becoming public knowledge, his biographer Paula Broadwell spoke before the University of Denver's Alumni Symposium in Denver, Colorado.

At that time, she discussed how she joined the military but primarily talked about the...

Even before recent predictions that Arctic sea ice would melt by the summer of 2016 in a "final collapse," setting off a "global disaster," the Pentagon and the Center for Naval Analyses's (CNA) Military Advisory Board had already gone on record warning...

The day before Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney began his recent 36-hour swing through Israel with Sheldon Adelson at his side, President Obama was signing the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Act (S 2165) in the Oval Office with representatives of the politically powerful AIPAC in attendance.

Viewing the recent House of Representatives debate on the 2013 Defense Appropriations bill (HR 5856) was as disorienting as if living in an alternate reality with little acknowledgement that while the federal deficit continues to increase, some of the country's once-great cities are in the throes of critical...

Mostly overlooked in the hoopla of the Supreme Court's recent validation of President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and lost in whether the 'mandate' penalty is a tax or not a tax has been the Court's finding that a section of the Act's Medicaid expansion is "unconstitutional."...

As the austerity budget crisis continues to plague diverse Euro countries, American voters may breathe a sigh of relief that even with an economy that remains sluggish, the harsh level of austerity cuts being proposed in Greece and Spain and elsewhere have not happened here. At least that's what conventional...

As long overdue negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) begin in early July under UN auspices, central to that discussion, by virtue of its international supremacy, will be the US export of arms that has facilitated the extensive sale of weapons around the planet. With only...

As President Obama has committed to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014, the recently signed Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) with Afghan President Hamid Karzai will implement an 'enduring' strategic partnership that extends a US presence in that country until 2024. A premise for the SPA...

For the first time in more than a decade, representatives from NATO's 28 member nations will meet in Chicago on May 21 for a two day conference.

With the European continent devastated at the end of WWII and an ominous Russian presence in eastern Europe, the emergence...