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When the British Parliament was debating in 1765 whether to impose a direct tax on the American colonies through the Stamp Act, Charles Townshend rose in the House of Commons to defend that taxation — and insult the colonists.
It happened in the midst of America's 2012 election year.
Can you tell which party made the following budget proposals?
Philadelphia has just had a great week with the Eagles winning the Super Bowl. But now some city leaders are focused on a radically different competition.
The number of married couples in the United States who have children under 18 hit a 56-year low in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The great humanitarians gathered on the Senate floor this Sunday to demonstrate their passion for protecting "kids."
Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev was both lucky and evil.
A wall is neither moral nor immoral any more than a baseball bat is moral or immoral. What matters is the purpose for which it is used.
Two months before his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump made an unambiguous commitment that helped rally pro-life Americans to his cause.
The number of Social Security beneficiaries hit a record 61,859,250 in November, according to data released by the Social Security Administration.
In other words, they got $89,614,869,000 in welfare payments.
It was 19 years ago, when Hoa Quang Ha drove up to a Chinese restaurant in San Jose, California, with his accomplice, Binh Thai Luc, who had come to the United States from Vietnam.
If you pay federal taxes, you have been funding the creation of "humanized mice" implanted with tissues taken from aborted babies.
Just over a month ago, an organization sent the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority an advertisement it was ready to pay good money to post on the backs and sides of Metro buses. The ad used only four words: "Find the Perfect Gift."
A group of students from Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City on April 28, 1882 and made an unambiguous decision: The United States was declaring its independence from British football.
Eight years ago, Sen. Orrin Hatch argued in a Senate Finance Committee then controlled by Democrats that Congress does not have the constitutional power to order people to buy things.
"This plan is for middle-class families in this country who deserve a break," Speaker Paul Ryan said last week as the House leadership released its "tax reform" plan.
What is the proper purpose of federal taxation? Is it to fund the constitutionally limited functions of the federal government? Or to seize wealth from one group in order to give it to another?
The American Civil Liberties Union wants to see the unborn child of a young woman who is illegally in the United States terminated — through what it insists is her "right" to abort that child.
Real per capita federal spending has increased more than sevenfold since fiscal 1941, which concluded on June 30 of that year — or about five months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
