(2008-06-29) — When the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes on the first Monday in October, the nine Justices may consider whether the Constitutional preamble clause “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” guarantees an individual right to drill for oil.
Now that the court, in a 5-4 ruling on the Heller case, has upheld [...]

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(2008-06-20) — Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama announced today that in addition to rejecting taxpayer funding for his general election campaign, he will also forgo public funding for government entitlement programs once he reaches the White House.
“The public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken,” said Sen. Obama. “The public financing [...]

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Scott Ott, editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, also writes non-satirical columns at Townhall.com. Here’s an excerpt from his latest and a link to read more.
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Chris Matthews’ initial reaction to the death of colleague Tim Russert can be summed like this: Bush lied. People died.
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(2008-06-13) — As a goodwill gesture in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to grant writs of habeas corpus to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, al Qaeda today announced it would grant its beheadees what it called “writs of habeas corpse.”

Under the Supreme Court’s Boumediene v. Bush ruling (PDF), an enemy combatant [...]

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(2008-06-13) — The U.S. housing crisis reached fever pitch this month, with potential foreclosures up 48 percent compared with May 2007.
The devastation of receiving foreclosure notices has now swept through a full 2/10ths of one percent of American homes. About 1/10th of one percent of owners may lose their homes. For some of those [...]

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(2008-06-13) — Sources close to the Obama family say that, at home, Michelle and the girls often get so caught up in Barack Obama’s stirring rhetorical flourishes that they hardly notice the TelePrompTer.
One of Mrs. Obama’s old college friends said, “Michelle still tears up when she talks about Barack’s historic ‘Will You Marry Me?’ address. [...]

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(2008-06-11) — Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced today that product development cycles at the Cupertino, California, firm have become so fast that the company plans to release iPhone 3.0 at the end of June, more than a week before the previously scheduled release of version 2.0.

The second new edition of the popular mobile computing platform [...]

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