Romney Wins the Iowa Caucus by just eight votes
Former Massachusetts governor and presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, defeated Rick Santorum by just eight votes in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses. Despite Romney’s narrow victory, political pundits on both sides of the aisle are heralding the caucuses as a victory for Santorum, the little-known former Pennsylvania senator who was polling in the single digits, in the [...]
Federal Control Over Local Housing
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 111 Current Event According to Westfair online.com; July 21, 2011(full article available on-line) “We have no alternative but to say enough is enough to HUD,” Astorino said Friday. Astorino is scheduled to meet with HUD (Housing and Urban Development) Secretary Shaun Donovan in Washington, DC on July 29 to [...]
On Your Own, “Moore or Less.”
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 107 Current Event According to Gwen Moore’s press release on April 15, 2011: Congresswoman Gwen Moore made the following statement after the House passed Republican Paul Ryan’s budget: “As the Democratic alternative budgets showed, we can get our fiscal house in order without rationing health care for our seniors [...]
Essential Constraints
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 103 Current Event According to ABC News October 27, 2008 (full article available online) On Jan. 18, 2001, then-state senator Barack Obama appeared on a public radio chat show to discuss “The Courts and Civil Rights.” Obama in that interview said, “If you look at the victories and [...]
The intricacies of ObamaCare.
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 102 Current Event According to FoxNews.com, August 1, 2011 WASHINGTON — Private health insurers must now give birth control and other women’s health tests for free, the Obama administration said Monday. Among the benefits to be offered “without cost-sharing” — meaning no co-pay, co-insurance or deductibles beginning Jan. 1, [...]
Tax Code and The Debt Ceiling
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 101 Current Event According to the New York Times on January 25, 2011(full article available online) Melbourne Apartments is a new 84-unit building in Des Moines, Iowa, where a three-bedroom apartment rents for $775 a month but comes with restrictions — a family of five, for example, can earn [...]
Free Speech and Violent Video Games
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 99 Current Event According to the New York Times; June 27, 2011 (full article available on-line). WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down on First Amendment grounds a California law that banned the sale of violent video games to children. The 7-to-2 decision was the latest [...]
Student Stopped From Saying “God Bless”
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 98 Current Event According to The Christian Post, May. 05, 2010 A Florida school district is being sued for “persistent and widespread” restrictions on religious expression. Liberty Counsel, a legal group often representing Christians in religious freedom and family cases, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of [...]
Pax Americana Institute honors the United States on Independence Day 2011.
The executive staff of the Pax Americana Institute would encourage you to join us in celebrating the 235th birthday of the world’s greatest steward of liberty, independence, freedom, and opportunity—the United States of America. On this Independence Day we hope that you take time to reflect upon the importance of freedom, liberty, democracy, and what [...]
