Several recent court cases have resulted in small business owners, who create the wares and services that they sell, being ordered by a judge to sell their custom-made products (e.g., wedding cakes and floral arrangements) or services (e.g., wedding photography) to gay couples despite the small business owners’ refusal to do so based on their religious principles.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie publicly apologized Thursday for controversial lane closures last year that were arranged by his associates as an apparent act of political revenge, and fired a top aide who was at the center of the scandal.
Has there ever been a better story? It’s like a version of Titanic where first class cheers for the iceberg.
Over the past week we have heard many mainstream media reports about the dreaded ‘Polar Vortex’ that has been impacting the lower 48 and making it downright cold in early January. Watching the coverage one might think that is something new and different, the likes of which we have never seen before (except in B-grade science fiction movies such as “The Day After Tomorrow”).
The Alaska State Senate held hearings on January 7th and 8th on the Alaska State Standards and the Common Core curriculum. Most of the speakers at the hearing were officials from the Chief State School Officers and others affiliated with the process of drafting the state standards.
Religion and astronomy may not overlap often, but a new NASA X-ray image captures a celestial object that resembles the “Hand of God.”
Hollywood double agents might want to watch their backs.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Mark Begich said Thursday that she misspoke when she said he missed a vote in Washington because he was traveling to the capital when, in fact, he was in Hawaii.
Desperate people do desperate things. In this case, Senator Mark Udall asked the state’s insurance commission to downplay the number of policy cancellations by changing the definition of “cancelled.”
From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles across the heart of the Middle East.