By Albert N. Milliron Republicans will tell you that the 2010 election was a referendum on the Democrats handling of legislation by pushing unpopular bills through the House and Senate like a Freight train. ...
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Update: 7:41 pm EDT Photos and video coverage of the Parents' Rights Constitutional Amendment Conference are now available at Representative Pete Hoekstra's website, here and here.--- Update: 5:29 pm EDT I...
Reports are circulating that the UK government will today announce that they will change the pension laws to allow women who did not work for the minimum 39 years to receive national insurance benefits. In the UK, national insurance is the equivalent od social security in the...
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" The International Cricket Council on Tuesday announced new playing conditions that give liberty to on-field umpires to consult the third umpire in case of unclean catches and also bar players from taking...
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As they recall the failure of immigration reform in Congress, Democrats want to come off as the good guys."This means burying the fact that their patrons in organized labor instructed them to kill any compromise that included guest workers — a concept AFL-CIO President John...
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Opinion-Editorial by Chuck Norris Despite the fact that a recent poll found that Americans now believe (by a 3-1 ratio) gas prices are a bigger problem than global warming, The Washington Post noted that House...
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Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement prior to a vote on a motion by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) to kill two of his amendments to the...
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Obama will make Martin Luther King proud if he'd be the next president of USA....."For black Americans, the road to political inclusion that has allowed Democratic candidate Barack Obama to make a serious bid for...
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UPDATE: 6:40PM ESTPresident Hugo Chavez has now threatened to stop selling oil to the EU if the controversial new migrant law is passed."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Thursday to stop selling oil...
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"By Safaa Abdoun and Lina MarwanFirst Published: June 8, 2008CAIRO: The People’s Assembly approved amendments to Child Law 12/1996 drafted by the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) after months-long debates.One of the most welcome articles was one...
"These are an odd couple stories. On the one hand you have the ineffectual French courts kowtowing to a Muslim husband who wanted his marriage annulled because his wife wasn’t a virgin. On the other hand is...
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Since the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Certification Program's creation in 2002, only five of the state's local governments have chosen to apply for certification. Three local governments were certified by the Department of Community Affairs (cities of...
"War on Error: Dr Haneef and the Keystone Cops
By: Katherine Wilson
Wednesday 1 August 2007
According to statements in the Law Council of Australia’s latest report, the ‘Kafkaesque’ and ‘Alice in...
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We here at NowPublic have been covering New York's tendencies towards becoming a nanny city over the last year (No trans fats? No metal bats? No iPods across the street? No slurs?) Not least of all the bans was...
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From the good folks at BoingBoing:"EFF's Danny O'Brien writes with this urgent message for Europeans:
IPRED2, the insane EU plan to criminalise almost all copyright violation (meaning that rightsholders could pressure the police to prosecute companies they don't like - eg...
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