The Constitution Has Been Suspended!

""But the Constitution of the United States, as a restraining influence in keeping the federal government within the carefully prescribed channels of power, is moribund, if not dead. We are witnessing its death-agonies, for when this bill becomes a law, if unhappily it...

Women Face Bias Worldwide, UN Report Says

Women's struggle for gender equality and justice continues on a global scale. Today's UN report shockingly indicates that the disparity between women and men's rights is all too common and prevalent.In 2008, it is...

Hillary Clinton on Presidential Power

Hillary Clinton's answers to the Boston Globe survey on presidential powers were carefully crafted and demonstrate a more considered view of the constitutional issues than the current President has.  Her answers...

Barack Obama on Presidential Power

Senator Obama uses less measured language and approaches the questions with more social and historical perspective than Senator Clinton, reflecting his relatively few years inside the Beltway.  Their positions are quite similar, though his answers on the Bush...

No charges in Megan Meier's MySpace Teen Suicide

While there may be no criminal charges arising from a group of adults who faked being a boy on myspace and culminated in the suicide of a 13 year old girl who was 'in love' with him, there's certainly no reason not...

Texas legislature turns blind eye on gun safety

AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Texas' love affair with guns got a shot in the arm last week when Governor Rick Perry signed into law House Bill 308, expanding the rights of blind game hunters to include the use of laser sighting...

Do DUI Laws Really Make Sense?

"IN the 1980s, Mothers Against Drunk Driving led the campaign to toughen the penalties for driving under the influence. This led to a societal change in attitude toward drinking and driving -- and it also helped reduce highway fatalities. A legislative committee led by Sen....

Abolish the JNF by Uri Avnery

"What would we say if an American institution, holding a seventh of all the land in the United States, adopted statutes that allowed it to sell or rent land only to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants? We would not believe it. And it is, indeed, impossible. But that's the way...

Gay President

POLL  ----  If a presidential candidate were gay, how would it influence the way you voted?

Same-Gender Marriage Within The Military

POLL:    I oppose / I support / I need to know more before I could say one way or the other.

Same-Gender Marriage

POLL:    I oppose / I support / I need to know more before I could say one way or the other.

The Crime Of Genocide

This law protects four groups: National, Ethnical, Racial, Religious. The crime, is the intended destruction of the whole, or part, of a group. Genocide crimes include: Aiding, Attempting, Complicity, Conspiring, Inciting, Planning.  

Report Faults Tomlinson for Broadcasting Violations

"A new report by a federal investigator, obtained in full by National Public Radio, has found that Kenneth Tomlinson repeatedly violated federal statutes in his role as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors."

Cities Across Nation Crack Down On Illegals

Frustrated by federal inaction, new measures spark growing movement

Sen. Specter prepping bill to sue Bush - Yahoo! News

"We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared...

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