Republican senators urged the Environmental Protection Agency not to participate in a “sue-and-settle” arrangement with a law school policy institute that is trying to require the agency to develop rules implementing cap-and-trade, even though Congress refused to pass the law.
In a sign of how active Sarah Palin intends to be in influencing the 2014 elections, SarahPAC, Sarah Palin’s Political Action Committee, released a video on Wednesday meant to ignite independents, conservatives, and Tea Partiers for the 2014 midterm elections.
The National Science Foundation awarded a grant for $876,752 to the University of Iowa to study whether there is any benefit to sex among the New Zealand mud snail and whether that explains why any organism has sex.
The magnitude of the federal government’s ammunition buildup has been making headlines over the last few weeks, as members of the military, police departments and consumers are finding shelves bare when they want to buy ammunition.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts’ cousin, a lesbian seeking to get married in California who will had reserved seating for relatives at two upcoming cases, wrote that she believes her cousin will rule in favor of same-sex marriage in an op-ed posted on the National Council for Lesbian Rights.
Hundreds of sheriffs across the country have banded together and vowed not to enforce any new state or federal gun control legislation because they feel such laws would be in violation of the U.S. Constitution — the document they took an oath to uphold. Gun control advocates are fighting back.
Churches forced to perform same-sex marriages may be the next possible step if Supreme Court rules that homosexual marriage is a constitutionally-protected right.
According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been an enormous number of new venereal infections in the United States, bringing the total number of existing sexually transmitted infections to one-third the US population. Read about where most of the new infections are occurring.
Eight in 10 Americans are unhappy with Washington, according to a new poll — with nearly 30 percent describing themselves as “angry.”
Civil rights activist Rev. William Owens, who is founder and president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, said Tuesday there is no comparison between the civil rights movement and the gay community’s fight for same-sex marriage.