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Reid and McConnell Compromise on Short-Term Spending Bill
According to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on CNN’s State of the Union, he and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid came to an...
Valedictorian Wins Religious Freedom Case
The Montana Supreme Court ruled five-to-one last month that Renee Griffith’s First Amendment rights were violated when public school officials did not allow...
Read more“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repealed
The Senate today voted 65-31 in favor of repealing the 17-year-old military policy, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT). The historic bill is now...
Read moreHow the Fed (Almost) Stole Christmas
One might think that the Federal Reserve is busy enough with bailing out foreign banks, monetizing federal debt, and inflating — er, quantitatively...
Read moreGovernment Sues BP
The U.S. Justice Department is suing nine companies including BP for billions of dollars in damages related to the Gulf of Mexico oil...
Read moreSenate May Have Enough Votes to Repeal DADT
On Wednesday, December 15, the House of Representatives voted 250 to 175 to repeal the military’s long-standing policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”...
Read moreBOND Action Contests Michael Steele’s Reelection Bid
In the wake of Michael Steele?s announcement that he would be seeking reelection for the position of Republican National Committee Chairman, a variety...
Read moreTax Debate Over: Tax Bill Passed Despite House Hurdles
At approximately midnight on Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 277-148 to pass the tax cut legislation approved in the Senate on Wednesday....
Read moreReid Concedes to Republicans on Spending Bill
Yesterday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reluctantly pulled the 1,900 page $1.1 trillion omnibus bill laden with earmarks that would have funded...
Read moreArmy Birther Sentenced to Military Prison
On Thursday, an army doctor who disobeyed deployment orders because he questioned President Obama’s eligibility to serve as Commander in Chief was sentenced...
Read moreAre Christians Becoming Nonbelievers?
Last week (December 9, 2010), Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, a think tank for Concerned Women for America,...
Read moreJudge Hints at Ruling Against Health Law
A Florida federal judge hinted on Thursday at the possibility of becoming the second judge to strike down the individual mandate provision of...
Read moreSurviving Nuclear Attack: “Duck and Cover” Is Back
Almost three decades have passed since the film The Atomic Cafe (1982) offered a cynical, and yet vacuous, denigration of the efforts of...
Read moreJustice Scalia to Teach Bachmann’s Constitutional Seminar
Republican Representative Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota announced in July that she would be forming a Tea Party Caucus. With the creation of the...
Read moreSupreme Court Set to Hear Challenge to Arizona Campaign Finance Law
As the October session came to an end after Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment challenge to Arizona’s controversial...
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