Obama Names Bolden for NASA
“Obama's NASA selection is a boost for manned spaceflight” proclaimed the headline to the May 24 Los Angeles Times story. Apparently, “the choice...
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Adding “Sexual Orientation” to Hate-crime Statutes
It’s ironic that secularists will accuse traditionalists of being hung up on sex, when they are the ones who cannot stop talking about...
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California’s High Court Upholds Proposition 8
In a 6-1 ruling yesterday, the California Supreme Court voted to uphold Proposition 8, which amended the state’s constitution so as to define...
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Obama’s Foreign Policy Described As Pragmatic
Item: A May 6 Reuters article, detailing President Obama meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, described the...
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White House Restructures National Security
President Obama announced the merger of the Homeland Security Council with that of the National Security Council in order to make Americans safer,...
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Sotomayor: Discriminating to Not Be Discriminatory
The nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court is bound to produce some interesting confirmation hearings....
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Notre Dame: Tragedy and Hope
At the University of Notre Dame, opposition to the granting of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to commencement speaker Barack Obama, president...
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Shadowy Thinking
There may soon be more “penumbras formed by emanations” in the invisible, unpredictable “living Constitution” if President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Sonia...
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Leftists in Tizzy Over Exposure of KGB Ties
The Left is in a tizzy over Izzy. More precisely, they are in a tizzy over the latest revelations exposing the late I.F....
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The American Flag
The start of a baseball game, a football game, a NASCAR race, or a rodeo is predictable: crowds turn to face the American...
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Obama, the Soldiers, and Memorial Day
In his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is “a time to reflect on what...
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Cap and Trade Passes House Committee
Climate-change legislation has now officially become part of Washington policymaking with the approval on May 21 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee...
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Rachel Maddow’s Critique of Obama
Left-wing MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow has aired a surprisingly penetrating critique of President Barack Obama’s new prolonged detention, or preventive detention, policy, a...
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Cheney Defends “Enhanced” Interrogation
In a speech given on May 21 at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said President...
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Missing Link Coverage Goes Amiss
"Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is ‘missing link’ in human evolution," ran the Guardian headline on May 19. The media was abuzz with excitement...
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