Choose Your Mother's Day Card - Affordable Care Act | The White House

Don't forget! It's Mother's Day! As rewarding as being a mom can be, it sure isn't easy. That's part of why the Obama Administration is taking steps to level the playing field for mothers and their families. To help you show some appreciation for the mom in your life, we've  …

A Felon, But He'll Probably Be Re-Elected Anyway : NPR

It's been a rough stretch for Pennsylvania's state Legislature. Within the past two months, four onetime floor leaders have been sentenced, pleaded guilty or found guilty of corruption charges. But a jury verdict isn't stopping one of those legislators from running for re-elect …

Bill Maher Defends Rush Limbaugh

Hate to defend #RushLimbaugh, but he apologized, liberals looking bad not accepting. Also hate intimidation by sponsor pullout  

Lincoln Brown, Chicago Teacher, Sues For The Right To Say N-Word In Class

Lincoln Brown, a 48-year-old Chicago Public Schools teacher, has filed a federal lawsuit against the district after being suspended without pay for five days for using the "n-word" as a part of a lesson highlighting the "perils of racism," the ChicagoSun-Times re …

Sterilized in North Carolina, she felt raped once more - latimes.com

Reporting from Raleigh, N.C.— 

Racist image of Michelle Obama based on Versailles painting - latimes.com

The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an "uppity Negro," which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era.

Sacramento judge sends man to prison for abusing dog; orders him to register as sex offender - Sac Paws - sacbee.com

A Sacramento judge on Friday sentenced a man convicted of animal abuse to 10 years in state prison and ordered him to register as a sex offenderover strong objections from his defense lawyer. It may represent the first time that Jessica's Law has been applied in a case in …

Rhode Island 'Governor Grinch' in trouble for deciding state would have 'holiday tree' instead of Christmas tree | Mail Online

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has been branded 'Governor Grinch' after he defied lawmakers and declared that the state would have a 'holiday tree' instead of a 'Christmas tree'.

National debt inspires a patriotic corps of individual donors - latimes.com

Atanacio Garcia isn't waiting for Washington to reduce the national debt.The 84-year-old retired postal worker from San Antonio, a man of simple means and a simple credo, donates $50 a month from his pension, plus whatever he makes from collecting aluminum cans in his neighborh …

Obama far outpaces Bush in fundraising and swing state travel - latimes.com

President Obama has attended twice the number of fundraisers as his predecessor and has made over a dozen more trips to key battleground states this year... Obama visited battleground states 46 times and attended 58 fundraisers for his reelection campaign since January... …

Targeting Wall Street but hurting small vendors instead - latimes.com

he Occupy movement came to Los Angeles aiming for Wall Street titans, but farmers market vendors are the first to take a real hit.Two weeks ago, about 40 vendors who sell on the City Hall lawn every Thursday were forced off the property after protesters refused to remove their  …

Occupy L.A.'s 99%: all talk, no action - latimes.com

I'm down with the demonstrators' basic notion that things are seriously out of whack in this economy.

Springfield superintendent bans Halloween costumes from town's elementary schools | NJ.com

There will be no princesses, pirates or vampires roaming the halls at Springfield’s two elementary schools this Halloween. Citing concerns that dressing up detracts from learning, Michael Davino, superintendent of the Union County school district has barred children from …

Science and religion: A false divide - latimes.com

On most issues, there is actually very little conflict between religion and science.

PETA 'Payback Is Hell' ad aimed at Florida shark attack victim causing feeding frenzy of outrage

A planned advertisement from the animal-rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that implies a shark-attack victim deserved his injuries has had the effect of chum in the water for the group's critics.

New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad' - latimes.com

"We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad" That's what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge. A railroad between contine …

Michele Bachmann: Beware 'the Soviet Union' - latimes.com

“What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline.

Is 'Torture' Ever Justified?

Nonetheless, like my liberal friends, I’m against torture. Really! They’re against it 100 percent of the time. I’m against it 99 percent of the time. I’m against it to punish jay-walkers and litterbugs and car thieves.

Labor Board Says Boeing's South Carolina Plant Breaks Law - NYTimes.com

Interesting contest between the Feds and a private company. Is it really OK to tell a private company that it can't relocate?

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