Hundreds Turn Out for Same-Sex Marriage Hearing in N.H.
More than 650 people showed up at the State House in Concord Thursday for a public hearing on bills to repeal New Hampshire's same-sex marriage law, passed in 2009....
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House Votes Ban on Funding for Planned Parenthood
In what is likely to be one of the most controversial votes in what promises to be a contentious legislative year, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to...
America the Busybody, at Home and Abroad
These are times that try nations' budgets. Even President Obama is talking seriously about budget cutting — not as seriously as the Republicans claim they are, but hey, give...
Transportation Secretary Advised Daughter: Buy Toyota
President Barack Obama was preaching economic patriotism when he addressed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week, urging the nation's business leaders to consider what they can do for...
Police, FBI Surround Peace Activists in Church
When a police SWAT team and an FBI anti-terrorism squad arrive in force at a local church, people might understandably be alarmed. They might reasonably suspect it is in...
Egypt’s Sulieman Gives Intelligence a Bad Name
The good news is that the United States has long-standing ties with Omar Suleiman, the man who has recently been made vice president of Egypt and is poised to...
A Mountain for the Gipper?
As we were reminded over the past weekend, there are already an impressive number of schools and government buildings, as well as streets, avenues, highways, parkways, turnpikes, and boulevards...
Palins Neocon Path
When John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate on August 29, 2008, the only foreign policy experience or expertise the Republican vice...
Court to Rule in Religion, Home-school Battle
The New Hampshire Supreme Court will decide in the next few months whether a Meredith woman may home-school her child according to her religious beliefs, despite the objections of...
Military-industrial Spending Spree
“Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican...
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,...
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...