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(CNSNews.com) – A conservative civil liberties group says it is encouraged by Tuesday’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, in which Justice Anthony Kennedy raised “serious questions about the constitutionality” of Obamacare’s individual mandate, which would force most Americans to purchase health insurance. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is challenging […]

A slain Florida teenager and the neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed him exchanged words before the teen punched him in the nose and began banging the man’s head on the ground, according to the watch captain’s account of the confrontation that led to the shooting. The Orlando Sentinel reported that George Zimmerman told […]

Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, caught up in the high-profile Obamacare arguments that started today, have refused to intervene in a case in which deputies threatened parents with the forced removal of their children unless they agreed to let social workers, who did not have a warrant or probable case, search their home. The […]

(CNSNews.com) – When the Supreme Court on Monday began hearing oral arguments in the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—AKA “Obamacare”—Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan showed up to hear the arguments and gave no indication she would recuse herself from judging the cases even though she had cheered enactment […]

Like most people, when I read the trial-by-media reports of how Trayvon Martin was killed, it sounded terribly unjust, wrong, a tragedy of epic proportions. It also sure sounded like law-enforcement may have made a bad call in not making an arrest. But when the race hustlers like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and race hustler-in-chief […]

The attack on American military computer networks has been so thorough, and so successful, security experts now say the U.S. should quit trying to stop it, and assume spies are already inside. Security experts testifying before the Senate Armed Services said last week that it’s time the U.S. stopped building up its computer defense, and […]

Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws. This document has a working title of “Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development” and you can read the entire thing right here. Work on this proposed world […]

Pushed to the bottom of the toy box by video games and other high-tech gadgets, Etch A Sketch is suddenly drawing lots of attention, thanks to a gaffe that has shaken up the race for the White House. Ohio Art, maker of the classic baby boomer toy, is sending a big box of Etch A […]

The Supreme Court has sided with an Idaho couple in a property rights case, ruling they can go to court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that blocked construction of their new home and threatened fines of more than $30,000 a day. Wednesday’s decision is a victory for Mike and Chantell Sackett, whose property […]

Mitt Romney’s China investment controversy is far from over. A March 15 story in the New York Times concerning Romney’s family trust investments in a Chinese company that manufactures surveillance cameras used by the Communist Party-ruled police-state apparatus continues to cause waves and draw attention to U.S. policies vis-à-vis the People’s Republic of China (PRC) […]

The often insightful and amusing Michael Kinsley (who like me overlapped with Mitt Romney at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) leads off his Bloomberg column with Barbara Bush’s comment that this year’s presidential campaign was “the worst campaign I’ve ever seen in my life.” Before making some sensible points about Rush Limbaugh and Bill […]

Have you heard that Malia Obama, the president’s daughter, is reportedly spending her spring break in Oaxaca, Mexico? Allegedly, she’s jetting off with some of her classmates and 25 Secret Service agents to a country that the State Department has said all Americans should avoid. But something is different about the latest “Obama vacation controversy:” […]