Rule Change Would Permit Weapons in National Parks
By JIM ROBBINS
Published: May 30, 2008
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The federal government is considering a proposal to allow visitors to carry loaded, concealed weapons in some national parks, wildlife refuges and monuments.
The National Rifle Association favors the proposed rule, arguing that it would help keep crime down [...]
Mounting Costs Slow the Push for Clean Coal
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — For years, scientists have had a straightforward idea for taming global warming. They want to take the carbon dioxide that spews from coal-burning power plants and pump it back into the ground.
President Bush is for it, and indeed has spent [...]
THE CLINTONS JUST HAVE TO WIN
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on TheHill.com on May 28, 2008.
In January 1998, right after The Washington Post revealed President Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica, I spoke with him about his predicament. Shell-shocked and stunned at the calls for his impeachment, he knew he was facing the fight of [...]
JOHN MC CAIN’S SONS
Talk about putting your most valuable where your mouth is! Apparently this
was not ‘newsworthy’enough for the media to comment about. Can either of
the other presidential candidates truthfully come close to this? … Just
a
question for each of us to seek an answer,and not a statement.
You see…character is [...]
Dear GOPUSA Activist:
The Pentagon recently made a misguided decision concerning America’s national security.
It awarded one of the biggest defense contracts in history, for the Air Force’s fleet of next-generation refueling tankers, to a consortium composed of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) and Northrop Grumman over US-based Boeing.
Although Northrop serves as the public face [...]
In Idaho, about 21,000 Democrats gathered for caucuses. Obama won in a blowout by a margin of 13,000 votes. For that, he won 15 delegates to three for Clinton — a net gain of 12 delegates.
In New Jersey, Clinton won by a margin of 110,000 votes out of more than 1 million cast. For that, [...]
Immoral transfers
To the editor:
In response to your May 16 editorial, “Agricultural handouts”: Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize farmers or anyone else.
The idea that one person’s needs are a moral claim on the assets of others has been used to justify countless redistribution schemes, from farm subsidies to welfare handouts to foreign aid. But this [...]
LETTERS: Blame Congress for our energy woes
To the editor:
Those senators asking oil company executives why the price of gasoline is so high were asking the wrong people. They should have been addressing the images in their own mirrors with questions such as:
Why are we not drilling for oil in the Alaskan arctic and off [...]
U.S. Says IAEA Report
Increases Concerns Over
Covert Nuke Program in Iran
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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Report: Michigan Coach Loses Job for
Allegedly Allowing Assistant to
Try to Convert Muslim Students
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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