The Mars Mission: Red Ink for the Red Planet
On July 20, 1969 three U.S. astronauts landed on the moon, and now NASA wants to go to Mars — for all the benefits — disregarding all the costs....
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Snowden: Encryption Needed to Protect Reporters, News Sources
Edward Snowden is still working on surveillance systems — only now he is working to foil them. ...
Texas Governor to Send National Guard Troops to Border
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced plans Monday to send 1,000 Texas National Guard troops to the Mexican border to deal with the massive wave of illegal immigration by children....
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Okla. Same-sex Marriage Ban
A federal appeals court ruled on July 18 that Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The case appears likely to join a growing list of appeals to the...
Obama to Sign Ban on Anti-LGBT Discrimination
President Obama will sign an executive order Monday forbidding both federal agencies and companies that contract with the federal government from discriminating against employees on the basis of sexual...
Federal Judge Puts N.H. Buffer Zone Law on Hold
U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante Wednesday ordered the New Hampshire communities of Concord and Derry not to enforce the 25-foot buffer zone around entrances to abortion clinics. ...
Sen. Judiciary Committee Endorses Amendment to Abridge Free Speech
A proposed constitutional amendment to abridge the freedom of speech received the endorsement of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a 10-8 vote Thursday. ...
NOW Puts Little Sisters of the Poor on “Dirty Hundred” List
The National Organization for Women has put The Little Sisters of the Poor on a list of "Dirty 100" organizations waging legal battles against the federal mandate for contraceptive...
Record Antarctic Sea Ice Chills Climate-change Projections
If climate-change scientists ever want to put their global-warming predictions on ice, they can find plenty of it down around the South Pole. ...
Record Shows Decade of Cooling in U.S., Despite Warming Predictions
Climate change or not, the United States is still a pretty cool country — and getting cooler, according to temperature data of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration.    ...
Feds Sue Wisconsin Firm Over English-language Requirement
A Wisconsin company is being sued by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over the company's requirement that its employees speak English on the job. ...
Libertarians Branded “New Communists” at Bloomberg.com
The trite joke used to be that right-wing zealots would look for communists under the bed. A pair of political commentators writing at Bloomberg.com apparently can find them at...
American “Exceptionalism,” True and False
An English admirer of America once described a different kind of American exceptionalism, one based on something far less common and more inspiring than an ability and willingness to...
High Court Won’t Hear Appeal of Ban on School Graduation in Church
Does holding a public high school graduation in a church building violate the First Amendment ban on an establishment of religion? It's a question the U.S. Supreme Court chose...
High Court Rules Pro-Life Group May Sue Over “False Speech” Law
The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List may proceed with its First Amendment suit against Ohio over the state's enforcement of a ban on "false" political speech, the U.S. Supreme...
Obama and Putin: Cold War or Just Cold Shoulder?
President Obama avoids contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin while war rages in Ukraine. ...
N.Y. Daily News Rips NRA Over School Shootings
The New York Daily News has found the villain in Tuesday's fatal shooting in an Oregon high school and it is not the 15-year-old freshman who killed a student...
Unknown Quantity of U.S. Weapons Now in Hands of Militants in Iraq
Pentagon officials have acknowledged there is no way to know the amount of American arms that have fallen into the hands of the Iraqi and Syrian militants now battling...
McDaniel Workers Cleared in Miss. Courthouse Caper
An aide to U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel and two campaign supporters were locked in a Mississippi courthouse with the ballots from the primary voting early Wednesday morning, but...
Gitmo Releases: Graham Warns Impeachment; Obama Has “No Apologies”
Just one day after a leading Republican warned that further releases of prisoners from the U.S. prison on Guantanamo Bay could lead to calls for his impeachment, President Barack...