PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Mitt Romney hoped to reinvigorate his presidential prospects with a victory in Maine's GOP caucuses Saturday while Ron Paul reached for his first triumph in what shaped up as a two-man race because neither Newt Gingrich nor Rick Santorum actively competed in the state.
This contest received far less attention than others on the calendar so far, but emerged as a crucial opportunity for Romney, the early front-runner now trying to stabilize his campaign after an embarrassing rout Tuesday in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Santorum won all three, further exposing the problems Romney faces in uniting conservatives behind his bid to challenge President Obama.
We hear every year about the assault on Christmas. No more school Christmas plays, no more Christmas songs, no more ‘Merry Christmas'. We are not allowed to mention God in public -- at high school football games, graduations, or before taking that Algebra test. No God on the Air Force patch, attacks on the Boy Scouts, and remove crosses from everywhere. read more
An American Indian tribe sued several large beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe demands $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of Nebraska also targets four beer stores in Whiteclay, Nebr.,ska town of a dozen residents that sold nearly 5 million cans of beer in 2010. read more
A Seattle librarian refused to force a man watching hardcore porn on one of its computer to move to a more discreet location, even after a woman with two children complained, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Lake City librarian said the library "doesn't censor content" and could not "be in the business of monitoring what their patrons are doing at any given computer." read more
When we were colonists and fought a war against the king and Parliament so that we could secede from the British Empire and be independent of it, we also fought for the value of personal freedom. That is the idea that in matters of personal choice, the government should play no role. The king only cared about the colonists' personal choices if he could control or tax them.
One of the taxes he imposed was to support the Church of England. The Church of England that the colonists' tax dollars supported was, of course, in England; it was not here. So, among the hateful taxes that impelled the colonists to revolt was this tax to support the king's church. read more
What is the difference between 'not in the Constitution' and 'unconstitutional'?
They don't have the power as written in the constitution to force out the HCR bill onto the people.
It's not in the Constitution.