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Trauma of School Strip Searches
The Supreme Court on April 21 heard arguments in a school strip-search case, Safford School District v. Redding. Savana Redding was 13 years...
The Debate Over the Climate Bill
During the second day of four days of scheduled hearings held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 22, Obama administration...
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Credit Card Crackdown
Next up for the federal government: the credit card industry. Having already thrown trillions in taxpayer dollars at the banking sector, and having...
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Obama Celebrates Earth Day in Iowa
Millions of Americans and others observed the 39th annual Earth Day on April 22 and President Barack Obama was no exception. The president...
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Homosexual Judge Creates Stir at Miss USA Pageant
They say that no one remembers second place, but this year’s recently concluded Miss USA Pageant may prove that this isn’t always true....
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Obama Signs Sweeping National Service Bill
President Obama signed the "Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act" on April 21 with the following words: “That is, after all, the beauty...
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Guns Easier to Obtain, Time Mag. Complains
Amid the hand-wringing surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colorado, Time magazine has now weighed in on...
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Torture: Obama Equivocates, Conyers Investigates
President Barack Obama has equivocated once again about the possibilities of torture prosecutions. "For those who carried out some of these operations within...
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Specter of Bank Nationalization Looms
The Obama administration is still thinking bank nationalization. In the latest twist to the saga of troubled American megabanks, the New York Times...
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Earth Day Co-founder’s Dark Past
Founded by environmentalists in the late 1960s and officially initiated by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, at least one ecologist/activist who lays...
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Moving Ahead With Adult Stem-cell Research
An outspoken advocate of adult stem-cell research and development is moving ahead with plans to raise $25 million for a not-for-profit adult stem-cell...
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Obama: Hero or Villain in Pirate Rescue Saga?
President Barack Obama scored major political points for the successful rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from his Somali pirate captors. Media headlines hailed...
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Media Bias Against Tax Day Tea Parties
Tax day 2009 has come and gone, and with it the spate of “Tea Parties” held in hundreds of towns and cities nationwide...
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20 Criminal Investigations for TARP Bailout
Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for the TARP, informed Congress April 21 that he has opened 20 criminal investigations and six audits in...
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Obama to Strengthen NAFTA Without New Negotiations
Speaking on April 20 in a conference call with reporters after returning from the Summit of the Americas, U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk...
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