Midway, Ga., Police Shut Down Kids’ Lemonade Stand
Police in Midway, Georgia shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to make money for a trip to a water park in Savannah because the youngsters...
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McConnell’s ‘Backup’ plan on Debt Limit Draws Fire From Conservatives
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been butting heads with Senate Democrats and President Obama in recent weeks in budget and debt ceiling negotiations, but the Kentucky Republican has...
“Isolationism” Now Center Stage in GOP Tent? Oh My!
It seems strange sometimes, the things that trouble Senator John McCain. Take the NATO war on Libya, for example, in which the United States is a participant, if not...
“Gay Marriage” Controversy Continues in N.Y.
Claiming allegiance to a "higher law than the law of the land," a town clerk in western New York has submitted her resignation rather than issue marriage licenses to...
Does Anyone Understand the Law?
Do we really understand what courts are for in America? I mean, do even really smart, educated people like (I realize I’m going out on a limb here) lawyers...
Time (Magazine) Flies off Course on Constitution
Asked about newspaper publishers who opposed his presidential candidacy in 1952, Adlai Stevenson was prepared with a characteristically witty rejoinder: "Their job is to separate the wheat from the...
A July 4 Warning Against Empire
John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State in the administration of President James Monroe, offered a toast to his native America on July 4, 1821. The Republic was yet young,...
Wars’ Costs Pegged at $4 trillion; $20 billion a Year for Air Conditioning
The cost to the United States of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan over the past 10 years has been somewhere between $3.2 and $4 trillion dollars, according...
Bachmann Wows ‘Em in the East
Just one day after officially beginning her campaign for President in neighboring Iowa, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann went to the East Coast and campaigned Tuesday in both northern New...
General John Stark: The Man, the Motto, and the “Coverup”
John Stark was a genuine hero of the American Revolutionary War or, if you prefer, America’s War for Independence. That he is not generally known beyond the borders of...
Fox and Enemies Attack Ron Paul
I'm beginning to appreciate Bill O'Reilly's importance to Fox News. He makes the other hosts on the station appear intelligent, well informed, and reasonable. He helps you appreciate Glenn...
Texas District Judge Biery: More Dictatorship of the Juristocracy
It is hard these days to keep up with all of the edicts issued by the Dictatorship of the Juristocracy, so please forgive the tardiness of this writer in...
The Blinders of the (New York) Times
Give syndicated columnist Cal Thomas credit for coming up with apt description of the New York Times. Thomas, a serious Christian, worried that he might be getting a one-sided view...
Why Wasn’t Johnson There?
As I went walking up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away ...
GOP Debate Tonight in Manchester, New Hampshire
Mavericks win! Too late for McCain and Palin. The first Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire for the 2012 campaign season will be held tonight at Saint Anselm College...
Saint Anselm College: “Classroom for America”
For Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, being in New Hampshire means you never have to pay for advertising. ...
Newt’s Staff Resigns, Campaign in Turmoil
Ever astute, the political observers at NationalReview.com have noted that the "resignation of (Newt) Gingrich's top men in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina would appear to be ......
Review of “Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion”
Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, by Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, 547 pages, hardcover. On April 18, 1906, a devastating earthquake struck the San...
Exploring Done, Santorum Will Run
After months of travel and living out of a suitcase, after endless days and nights on the exploratory committee trail, there is, for some Republican presidential hopefuls, no place...
Palin, in N.H., Rains on Romney’s Parade
A funny thing happened to Mitt Romney on the way to formally launching his campaign for President in the state with the nation's first presidential primaries. The handsome, well...