The U.S. Supreme Court effectively opened marriage to homosexuals today in striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act as a violation of the constitutional provision for equal protection and placing into question California’s Prop 8.
Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Prop 8, California’s successful citizen initiative that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman, highlights how important it is that Alaska was the first state in the nation in 1998 to define natural marriage in our own State Constitution.
An Islamic scholar who serves as vice president of an organization that supports the terrorist group Hamas and whose president sanctioned the killing of American soldiers in Iraq met with senior Obama administration officials at the White House earlier this month.
House Speaker John Boehner is set to raise money in Alaska with the former chair of the Alaska GOP that Sarah Palin took on for corruption. Also joining Ruedrich and Boehner is Commissioner Dan Sullivan.
While NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden continues to baffle world governments and the news media with his exact whereabouts and travel plans, one question apparently not being asked is whether he was ever in Hong Kong in the first place.
With the U.S. still struggling to emerge from the economic malaise of recent years, the top-rated radio host who once said he hopes Barack Obama fails is now saying Obama “may be one of the most successful presidents that we’ve ever had.”
For the second time this week, a gun owner is under investigation for shooting at a criminal who unlawfully invaded his property.
Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner leads City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the race for New York City’s Democratic mayoral nomination for the first time, snatching the frontrunner mantle as the contest heads into the final months before the primary.
Former Rep. Allen West poured scorn on the upper-class white democratic state legislator who called Justice Thomas a racial epithet.
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states no longer can be judged by voting discrimination that went on decades ago, a decision that argues the country has fundamentally changed since the racially motivated laws of the civil rights era. Alaska is one of the states affected by this decision.