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Obama Woos Senators for Climate-change Legislation

President Obama is turning up the heat on Congress to pass comprehensive climate-change legislation, meeting today with key Senators from both parties at...

Rebecca Terrell March 9, 2010

Same-sex Couples Wed in Washington, DC

Dave Bohon March 9, 2010

Homosexual couples began marrying March 9 in Washington, DC, nearly a week after a measure permitting same-sex marriage passed its final legal hurdles...

TSA and the Fourth Amendment: Take another Look

Bob Adelmann March 9, 2010

When Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that Major General Robert Harding was President Obama’s latest nominee for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA),...

Gas Prices May Reach $7 Per Gallon

Rebecca Terrell March 8, 2010

President Obama's fiscal year 2010 EPA budget calls for carbon reductions that would require raising the cost of gasoline to $7 per gallon...

McCain-Lieberman Bill Would Deny Civilian Trials for “Enemy Belligerents”

Steven Yates March 8, 2010

On March 4 Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) introduced a bill entitled “The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act...

Gender Agenda: Boys in Girls’ Bathrooms

Selwyn Duke March 7, 2010

There was a time when boys of easy virtue had to content themselves with sneaking a peek at the girls’ swim team during...

Partial Gun Rights Victory Could Have Other Implications

Alex Newman March 5, 2010

Analysts are predicting at least a partial victory for gun rights after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in McDonald v. Chicago,...

New Sanctions Against Iran?

March 5, 2010

VOA News reported on March 4 that the United States, Great Britain, and France are increasing their pressure for additional sanctions against Iran...

Pope Pius XII: Hero in the Unmaking

Selwyn Duke March 5, 2010

The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the...

Communist China Caught Spying On United States, Again

Alex Newman March 4, 2010

A Federal Bureau of Investigation video was released over the weekend that exposed an American defense official with one of the nation’s top...

McCain-Feingold and Free Speech

Jack Kenny March 4, 2010

Hillary Clinton will not easily be mistaken for Sir Winston Churchill, but our nation’s Secretary of State borrowed a metaphor from old “Winnie”...

Financial Reform: Pressing On, Regardless

Bob Adelmann March 4, 2010

Last month, Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) pushed back against the Obama administration’s plans to create a “standalone” Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and some...

Children Directing Planes at JFK: Why it is a Big Deal

Selwyn Duke March 4, 2010

By now we’ve all heard about the air-traffic controller who allowed his kids direct airplanes at John F. Kennedy Airport last month. Yes,...

U.S. Postal Service: Time to Free the Mail

Bob Adelmann March 3, 2010

When U.S. Postmaster General John Potter recommended eliminating Saturday delivery service in order to save money, he was merely responding to the postal...