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Census Should Stick To Constitutional Limits, Says Ron Paul

Every time a year ending in a zero swings around, the federal government conducts a census — typically in early spring, meaning that...

Steven Yates March 9, 2010

Sex Offender Laws Called Into Question

Raven Clabough March 9, 2010

John Albert Gardner III, a registered sex offender in Escondido, a north San Diego suburb, from January 2008 to January 2010, is accused...

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...

Inflicting Aristide — and More Pain — on Haiti

William F. Jasper March 9, 2010

By the beginning of March, government officials and humanitarian aid workers on the ground in Haiti were estimating that the death toll from...

Obama Woos Senators for Climate-change Legislation

Rebecca Terrell March 9, 2010

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

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),...

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...