California’s Budget Stalls, Bond Ratings Sink
On July 14 California's bond ratings, already the lowest in the nation, took another hit. Moody's Investors Service downgraded $72 billion of the...
The Fourth Amendment’s Shocking Development
In a ruling issued in June, Niagara County (New York) Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza concluded that the Niagara Falls Police Department was justified...
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Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs
A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care...
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Cleric Rafsanjani Criticizes Iran’s Leadership
Influential cleric Hashemi Rafsanjani, addressing tens of thousands of opposition supporters gathered for the traditional Friday prayers in the hall at Teheran University,...
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Should Taxes Pay for Abortion, Secularism?
Washington, D.C., would be able to use tax money to fund abortions under a $768 million spending bill passed by the House on...
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CBO Warns of Health Reform Cost
The Congressional Budget Office on July 16 warned that the Democrats’ healthcare reform bills won’t reduce the federal government’s spending on medical care....
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Ricci Testimony Highlighted Last Day of Sotomayor Hearings
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday rang down the curtains on Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings at the end of four days of intense...
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U.S. Will Resettle Palestinian Refugees from Iraq
The U.S. State Department acknowledged on July 7 that it would resettle as many as 1,350 Palestinian refugees from Iraq to various locations...
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The Prejudice of Atheists
Ever since the separation-of-church-and-state ruling in 1947, there has been an ever-intensifying effort to denude our public sphere of religious symbols and sentiments....
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National Geographic Defends the Facts of the Apollo 11 Mission
Neil Armstrong’s famous “small step” at the moon’s Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969 was among the defining moments of an entire...
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Drug War Violence Rages in Mexico
Violence has exploded in the Mexican state of Michoacan following the arrest of an alleged leader of a powerful drug cartel known as...
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John Yoo: President Can Ignore Law
Bush-era Justice Department Attorney John Yoo is mad that various inspectors general have concluded that his legal memoranda on Bush-era warrantless eavesdropping have...
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Hillary Clinton Lets CFR Cat Out of the Bag
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not yet a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. After her July 15 speech at the...
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CBO to Congress: Spending & Debt “Unsustainable”
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf gave a fiscal wake-up call to Senate Budget Committee members in testimony on July 16, noting...
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Obama Weighing Homeowner Bailout Proposal
“U.S. officials are weighing a plan to let borrowers who have fallen behind on mortgage payments avoid eviction by renting their home instead,”...
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