Constitutional Concerns Raised as President Pledges to Make BP Pay for Spill
Speaking to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House on the evening of June 15, President Obama addressed the ongoing...
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Philadelphia Pressures Local BSA to Admit Gays or Lose Lease
The City of Brotherly Love is demanding that the local councils of the Boy Scouts of America renounce the national organization's stance against...
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Warning Label Goes Viral
When FoxNews.com wrote that a small publishing company put warning labels on copies of the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers,...
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Think Nationally, Act Locally
Varg Freeborn, president of the Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) chapter at Youngstown State University in Ohio, had no idea the levels that...
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That Pesky Constitution
Fox News (June 9) reported that small publisher Wilder Publications has taken political correctness to the extreme with its disclaimer about America’s founding...
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State Legislatures Take Up Abortion Issues
State governments are reasserting their constitutional right to regulate abortion. Eleven states this year have passed laws which either restricts or controls abortion,...
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Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ to Second Amendment Rights
In a memo she wrote as a young law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1987, Elena Kagan said she was...
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Court Holds Suspect Must Invoke the Right to Silence
Police may continue to question a silent suspect until he invokes his right to remain silent, the U. S. Supreme Court said yesterday...
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Tea Party Wants to Dump 17th Amendment?
There is a sizable bloc of Tea Party supporters calling for repeal of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 17th...
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Burnt U.S. Flag Displayed in Student Art Show
A partially burned American flag appearing as part of a student art exhibit has drawn opposition from a Veterans of Foreign Wars commander...
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Obama: Life Imprisonment Without Trial
President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force has “unanimously” concluded that 48 detainees at Guantanamo should be detained indefinitely — in essence, a life...
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New Cross Controversy Erupts in Illinois
After the protracted battle for the so-called “Mojave Cross” in California which was finally settled in the Supreme Court in favor of the...
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Who Needs a New Constitutional Convention?
You have probably griped under your breath, “There ought to be a law to stop these people,” when confronted by a particularly noxious...
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No Habeas Corpus for Bagram Detainees
A federal court of appeals on May 21 ruled that detainees held by the United States at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan...
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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Clearly Opaque
When President Obama named Elena Kagan as his nominee for justice of the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, he...
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