N.C. Win Gives GOP 30 Governors
While Democrats won the war for the White House, Republicans claimed victory in the battles for the State Houses in Tuesday's elections. Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McGrory's win over Lieutenant...
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Gay Marriage Advocates Win on Ballot Questions in Three States
In a major shift in America's culture wars, advocates of gay marriage won in at least three states Tuesday, as voters in Maine and Maryland voted in legal recognition...
Johnson, Stein Warn of Growing Police State
Presidential candidates Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party agreed during Monday night's alternative candidates debate that liberty in America is endangered by...
Johnson, Stein in Election Eve Debate
Should our federal government be big and "green" or small and frugal? That question is likely to be at the heart of the final debate of the 2012 presidential...
Here Come the Taxes: In Every Aspect of our Lives
On January 1, 2013, many new taxes are set to begin. Unless Congress and the White House can agree by year's end on an extension of tax cuts that...
Bishop Warns Those Favoring Abortion: “God Is not Mocked”
The bishop of Peoria, Illinois, is urging Catholics in his diocese to approach Tuesday's elections as a matter of life or death. Indeed, he suggests, their eternal lives may...
High Court Holds “Dog Fight” Over Fourth Amendment.
There may have been more talk about dogs at the U.S. Supreme Court than at the American Kennel Club Wednesday, as the justices heard arguments in two cases involving...
Has the Fourth Amendment Gone to the Dogs?
How far may police officers with drug-detecting canines go in sniffing around the outside of a home before obtaining a search warrant? ...
High Court to Decide if Challenge to Government Surveillance Program Will Be Heard
The Supreme Court will decide whether to allow a constitutional challenge to the government's warrantless surveillance to go forward. ...
Obama Fundraiser Is Winner in Solyndra Bankruptcy Ruling
A major fundraiser for President Obama's reelection campaign appears to be the biggest winner from a ruling by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware last week in favor of an exit...
Alternative Candidates Offer Different Issues, Few Specifics
Four lesser known candidates for president sparred sparingly with one another, while aiming their rhetorical blows on the major party candidates who weren't there in the Alternative Candidates Debate...
Senator Paul Takes On Government Bullies
Among other atrocities, the government regularly arrests, prosecutes, and imprisons Americans for trivial vagaries in the law. In his book Government Bullies, Senator Rand Paul points out a few...
Will Romney Rule Out Talks With Iran?
Either by coincidence or design, tonight's foreign policy debate between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney falls on the 50th anniversary of a Monday night when President John...
Obama, Biden Didn’t Know About Libya Security Requests, Spokesmen Say
In what might be called "Benghazigate," the controversy has continued over what the president and vice president knew, and when they knew, about requests for increased security at diplomatic...
Most Arms Shipments to Syria Go to Jihadists
Both classified documents and background statements by American and Middle Eastern officials confirm that most of the weapons sent to rebel forces in Syria are going to Islamic Jihadists,...
Former Senate Maverick Arlen Specter Dead at 82
Arlen Specter, the former Philadelphia prosecutor who played a key role in the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President Kennedy and went on to become Pennsylvania's longest...
Biden Knocked Ryan Over “Credit Card” Wars Biden Also Voted For
In charging his Republican opponent with putting "two wars on a credit card" in the October 11 vice-presidential debate, Vice President Joe Biden misrepresented his own voting record on...
Ron Paul Won’t Endorse Romney, Sees “Essentially No Difference”
Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman who has twice run for the Republican presidential nomination, won't endorse the nominee of his party. Though Paul said last week it was...
Romney: Arms for Syria, More Sanctions on Iran
Mitt Romney is calling for tougher sanctions against Iran and arms for the rebels in Syria, despite past failure from following those foreign policy remedies. ...
Akin Ad Says McCaskill Profited From Stimulus Vote
With an ad the opposing camp has denounced as "desperate, nasty campaigning," Republican Rep. Todd Akin has gone on the offensive against Sen. Claire McCaskill in the closely watched...