By Amy Purpura | West Virginia Watchdog
On January 16, a little over a month after the tragic Sandy Hook shootings, President Obama and the White House unveiled their proposal for gun control after a month of debates with other policymakers. One of the most controversial measures included in this proposal is a ban on the [...]

By Dr. Terry Wallace | West Virginia Watchdog
America’s last surviving World War I veteran, West Virginian Frank Woodruff Buckles, died in February 2011. Though we never met, I grew up with many of his Doughboy contemporaries. My grandfather, a World War I cavalryman, was one of them. He was born in 1897 and his hand-colored [...]

By Amy Purpura | West Virginia Watchdog
In the previous article of this series on firearms, one of the biggest myths about gun violence was debunked. Namely, that statistics show more guns do not result in more gun murders. However, the last article did not discuss any of the gun policy in place in the US [...]

By Amy Purpura | West Virginia Watchdog
With much fervor currently erupting in the US over the terrible tragedy committed last month in Connecticut, it’s imperative that citizens and policymakers allow their rationality and reason to guide their thinking on solutions instead of being overtaken by emotion. In this spirit, the WV Watchdog will be publishing [...]

By Amy Purpura | West Virginia Watchdog
On January 2, President Obama  signed off on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013 (NDAA) in addition to the fiscal cliff legislation. While the latter has received much more widespread coverage in the mainstream media, the NDAA bill of 2013 contains provisions that equally affect all Americans regardless [...]

By Amy Purpura | West Virginia Watchdog
With elections a week away, much of the news has recently been covering the presidential race between President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney, along with some other highly contested federal and state elections. However, little coverage has been given to a small observation mission being conducted [...]

By Terry Wallace | West Virginia Watchdog
We seldom have a direct vote or voice in setting our levels of taxation.  Federal taxes are imposed by an arrogant and uncaring United States Congress, and I mean both the House of Representatives and the Senate.  Despite record high levels of tax revenues, our debt load is speeding [...]

By Terry Wallace | West Virginia Watchdog
There seems to be nearly universal brouhaha over the lunch program in our schools these days. How could things get so far out of whack over something so simple?
During my student days at Neffs Elementary School, lunches cost fifteen cents and included whole milk, either chocolate or white, from [...]

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional budget analysts are now estimating that nearly 6 million Americans — most of them in the middle class — will have to pay a tax penalty for not getting health insurance once President Barack Obama’s health care law is fully in place.
That’s 2 million more than a [...]

By Terry Wallace | West Virginia Watchdog
In 1944, Hitler’s Schutzstaffel commandeered the entire European potato crop and turned it into ethanol to fuel V2 rockets.  With their foreign oil sources interdicted by Allied advances, the Germans resorted to replacing imported oil supplies by converting civilian food stocks into ethanol.
The Nazi terror weapon turned out to [...]