The Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of Christian graduate student Julea Ward, who almost three years ago was expelled from a university counseling program for her religious beliefs. In a strongly worded opinion earlier today, the Sixth U.S. Circuit of Appeals reversed a district court decision in favor of Eastern Michigan University, sending it [...]
According to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, a “top Romney adviser” says that if Mitt loses Florida on Tuesday, “we’re going to have to try to reinvent the smoke-filled room which has been democratized by all these primaries and come up with someone as an alternative to Newt Gingrich.” Finally — a Republican campaigning against the scourge [...]
Last night’s GOP debate was a smashing success for Mitt Romney. For once, he had been properly coached on answers to rebut Newt Gingrich. He turned the tables on the former speaker, using the same confrontational tone that Gingrich had in past debates to great success. Given Romney’s rising poll numbers after Gingrich’s ineffectual debate [...]
A judge ordered Joshua Komisarjevsky to be executed this summer for the 2007 murders of a mother and her two daughters during a brutal home invasion in Connecticut, saying on Friday that he committed a crime of “unimaginable horror.” Judge Jon Blue told Komisarjevsky, 31, that he alone was to blame for his new address [...]
A series of text messages tipped off authorities to an alleged Columbine-inspired plot by two high school students to detonate bombs during a school assembly, according to a Utah police document. The plot was uncovered Wednesday at Roy High School in Roy, Utah, police said. Authorities arrested 18-year-old Dallin Morgan and a 16-year-old boy who, [...]
Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian, has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three people with direct knowledge of Paul’s businesses. The Republican presidential candidate has denied writing inflammatory passages in the [...]
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched her own investigation into the mysterious illness causing facial tics and verbal outbursts among 15 teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y. Most of the teens have been diagnosed with conversion disorder — a psychological condition that causes physical symptoms like jerky tics, convulsions and even paralysis. But Brockovich suspects groundwater [...]
Facebook Inc. could file papers for an initial public offering as early as next week and is currently looking at a deal that would value the social network between $75 billion to $100 billion, said people familiar with the matter. The Internet giant is close to picking Morgan Stanley as the lead underwriter for its [...]
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was elected in last year’s GOP election landslide with heavy support from the tea party movement. Since then, the Cuban-American has become a rising star in GOP politics and is frequently mentioned as a potential running mate for the eventual Republican presidential nominee. Rubio, 40, talked with the Gannett [...]
Lawyers for Alejandrina Cabrera, a candidate for the City Council in the border community of San Luis, Ariz., said Thursday that they might appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court a lower-court ruling that Ms. Cabrera be removed from the ballot because she did not speak English proficiently. Judge John Nelson of the Yuma County Superior [...]
I remember the myths we were fed about Christianity, or Puritanism, or conservatism, or bourgeois virtues in school. One of the main ones – made up and perpetuated by Mark Twain – was that Christianity, with its negative view of human sexuality, created sexually frustrated persons who were afraid of exploring their own sexuality. That [...]
One of the attorneys who challenged Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court says he fears that even if the justices declared Obama constitutionally unqualified, he’d simply ignore the ruling and continue issuing orders. But those who observed a court hearing today in Atlanta say it could be [...]
Barack Obama said he makes mistakes on an hourly basis as President but stood firmly behind his administration’s work in bolstering the U.S. economy and jobs market. The President was in Las Vegas to champion investment in clean energy, declaring the U.S. ‘the Saudia Arabia of natural gas’ in a speech to UPS workers. However [...]
Topics in today’s show: –Obama goes to Disney World –Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina primary –Obama chooses former Bain Capital executive to run OMB –NBC finishes 8th place in TV ratings, behind several cable channels –More news about the Italian cruise ship — Andy Dick brawls with a tourist –Obama sings Al Green
Newt Gingrich’s former Republican colleagues in the House are more than a little nervous about the prospects of sharing a ticket with him in November. They think he’d run weakly in the suburbs. And among women. And independents. And especially in the Northeast. To some of them, he’s a disaster in the making, a potentially [...]
