Mother Jailed for Enrolling Kids in Another School District
An Akron, Ohio, woman was released from jail on Wednesday after serving 9 days of a 10-day sentence for enrolling her children in a neighboring school district. Kelley Williams-Bolar,...
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More Sizzle Than Steak in State of Union Rebuttals
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin Congressman chosen to give the "official" Republican response to the President's State of the Union address, might have been the designated funeral...
Amendment Would Ban Government from Owning Corporations
Rep. Mike Turner, (R-Ohio) has introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit federal government ownership in private enterprises. Called the Preserving Capitalism in America Amendment, the amendment would prohibit...
Republicans Lose Favorite Democrat
With poll numbers showing his approval rating at an anemic 25 percent among Connecticut voters, U. S. Senator Joe Lieberman insisted it was not the fear of losing a...
Roe v. Wade Still Lies in the “Penumbras”
It was a lie from the beginning. Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, claimed her pregnancy was a result of rape. It wasn’t. McCorvey admitted the...
Abortion Dr. Charged With Eight Counts of Murder
While President Barack Obama was lecturing China's President Hu Jintao about human rights Wednesday, prosecutors in Philadelphia announced they had charged an abortion doctor with eight counts of murder...
“Mainstream Media” Not Smearing the Right, Times Claims
If anyone has been trying to pin the blame on rightwing Republicans for creating a "climate of hate" that supposedly led to the January 8 shooting in Tucson, it...
Cornerstone Action Pushes for Repeal of NH “Gay Marriage” Law
Opponents of New Hampshire's same-sex marriage law will try to get the 2009 statute repealed this year, despite learning that the issue is not on the agenda set by...
DHS Laptop Seizures Harass Travelers
Laptop seizures are a growing menace in America today and it's not about your computer software having a stroke. It's about the Department of Homeland Security, without warrant or...
Niece Calls MLK Pro-Life, “Social Conservative”
While yesterday's liberals and today's progressives have championed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a hero for decades, a niece of the legendary civil rights leader says...
Tucson Shooting Sparks Calls for Involuntary Commitments
The recent shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six and wounded 14, including a member of Congress, has inspired some predictable calls for new gun legislation. But it has...
Who’s Afraid of Global Warming?
Snow and ice had created traffic hazards in the Deep South, the Northeast was being walloped by a blizzard-like storm on Wednesday, and snow was on the ground in...
Biden Hints at Longer Stay in Iraq
Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday Iraq may need U.S. military assistance beyond the scheduled withdrawal of the last of the American forces at the end of this year...
NH Rep. Holds Home Intruder at Gunpoint
A freshman legislator in New Hampshire made front-page news by holding an intruder at gunpoint Tuesday night until the police arrived at his Amherst home. ...
Bypassing Congress with Regulatory Decrees
When the New York Times reported on December 26 that the "advance care planning" benefit, deleted from last year's health care reform legislation, had been effected by regulatory decree,...
Pentagon, White House in Tug-of-war Over Spending
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is scheduled to brief members of Congress on Thursday, January 6, on his drive to find $100 billion in savings in the defense budget...
Mark Twain’s Tabooed Talk
It is sometimes said regretfully that many Americans today get their “slant” on the news from TV’s late-night comedians. But today’s “baby boomers” and Generation X-ers and Y-ers are...
Luke and the “Lamb of God”
Never before or since has the mere birth of a helpless, powerless baby been so enmeshed in a network of fear and loathing, hope and happiness of a kingdom,...
Decision Points Abounds in Unanswered Questions
George W. Bush tells us several times in Decision Points how fond he is of humor, but obviously some of his jokes have not gone over well. There is...
As the Old Year Passeth…
An old song comes to mind as the old year passeth. The song, in turn, brings to mind a lesson from that marvelously down-to-earth book of the Bible, Ecclesiastes....