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A pro-life group that monitors the use of cells from babies victimized by abortions is today highlighting a biotech company, Senomyx, which it says produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products. The group Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx. Debi Vinnedge, the director of the pro-life organization, tells LifeNews.com today that, in 2010, her group wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder and pointed out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored her...

Kent Wayne SnyderThe cause of limited government lost a friend on June 26 when Kent Snyder succumbed to pneumonia at age 49. Kent had worked for Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) for as long as I could remember and wrote his master's thesis on the congressman. I met Kent around 2002 when I was a graduate student at Georgetown University. We both took some of the same American studies courses, such as on the Federalist Papers and Alexis de Tocqueville, and we both chuckled mischievously every time we heard the phrase "the living Constitution." I'm not sure of the exact...

Subject: A fighting freshman May 23, 2003 Representative Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO), one of our new caucus members -- and a lowly freshman, no less -- has had the audacity to stand up to the all-powerful chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Rep. Don Young (R-AK, 15 terms in office!). In fact, Mrs. Musgrave is leading the charge to keep Mr. Young from raising the tax you pay on gasoline. Imagine! Rep. Musgrave received an old-fashioned dressing down for her impertinence. "I've been married a long time and my husband is a gentleman. And I've never had a man talk to...

The Charter of the United Nations is neither politically nor legally binding upon the United States of America or the American people. The Charter of the United Nations is commonly assumed to be a treaty. It is not. Instead, the Charter of the United Nations is a constitution. As such, it is illegitimate, having created a supranational government, deriving its powers not from the consent of the governed (the people of the United States and peoples of other member nations) but from the consent of the peoples' government officials who have no authority to bind either the American people nor...