How exactly will gays threaten traditional marriage? That is a good question, but only in the sense that no one has a good answer. In ignoring the question, we need to heed our most prominent moral leaders, i.e., our politicians. Just because they are shifty characters you wouldn’t lend a dollar to unless it was attached to a string, doesn’t mean they can’t thunder like Old Testament prophets.
My friend Wayne Smith called this week about the flag burning amendment. It scares him, as it should scare us all. “It’s a disaster,” he says. “And it takes our minds off what’s really happening in this country.”
The Bush administration will have to explain why it ignores or overrules laws passed by Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said on Wednesday.
Concerned that yearlong deployments to Iraq may be wearing out soldiers, the Army is working toward shortening combat tours by as much as half, Army Secretary Francis Harvey said Wednesday.
A bipartisan bill to extend the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a crown jewel of the U.S. civil rights era, was unexpectedly and indefinitely delayed on Wednesday due to objections by some southern Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rep. Jeff Flake’s tradition-bending crusade against his colleagues’ back-home projects has many of them scratching their heads and occasionally hurling insults at him.
In a debate likely to shape November’s elections, the Senate fought bitterly on Wednesday over measures pushed by Democrats to wind down U.S. involvement in Iraq that Republicans derided as “cut-and-run” strategies.
Vice President Dick Cheney claims the resistance in Iraq is in "its last throes." President George W. Bush says Iraq is "turning the corner."
Is that is true, how did a dying resistance manage to capture, torture and kill three U.S. soldiers in a well-planned and executed ambush? Why do innocent Iraqis die every day on the streets along with more and more U.S. soldiers?
So much for loyalty or years of service. CBS is giving former anchor and longtime newsman Dan Rather the bum’s rush.
A new encyclopedia of conservatism decides some notable right-wing loudmouths aren’t worth mentioning. Who? Oh, people like Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and Karl Rove. Nobody important.