After reading an article over at Yahoo! regarding the next steps that the Republicans should take to get back in power, one line caught my eye, and leads me to believe that the Republicans might be out of the game for a little while longer.
Rep Mike Pence said that while the GOP does need to [...]

A father is suing the Turkish Education Ministry for forcing his 11-year-old daughter to watch a “racist” and “disturbing” film countering claims that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915 with graphic allegations of Armenian atrocities against Turks.
The landmark case takes on what human rights activists have called the state’s militarist policy of [...]

San Antonio, Texas – Jessica Garcia intends to prove in court that security officers at Rolling Oaks Mall unfairly targeted her and her girlfriend when they were arrested in December on trespassing and other charges.
Garcia said the officers — a Bexar County sheriff’s deputy and an employee from a private security company — began harassing [...]

NORML – A majority of west coast voters support regulating the sale of marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol, according to national poll of 1,053 likely voters by Zogby International and commissioned by California NORML and Oaksterdam University.Fifty-eight percent of respondents residing on the west coast agree that cannabis should be “taxed and legally [...]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/25/boxer-seeks-ratify-treaty-erode-rights/
Senator Barbara Boxer of California has seen fit to revive talks and urge President Obama to push forward with the ratification of a UN treaty, Convention of the Rights of the Child. This treaty has been ratified by 183 countries with the exception of the United States and Somalia. Advocates of the treaty are using [...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7909563.stm
A woman has been found guilty of manslaughter after a shopper was killed following a row over queue jumping.
It seems that while a man had been waiting in line, this woman pushed past him and cut in line. The guy had words with her so she called her boyfriend who was outside in the car. [...]

Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell
I don’t know whether this belongs in the comic-relief category or the future-threats category, but the Harvard Law School is having a conference to analyze the “free market mindset.” The basic premise of the conference seems to be that people who believe in limited government are psychologically troubled.
The conference schedule features [...]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19365.html
I felt that today, I don’t even have to write an article concerning this, as the numbers speak for themselves. Anyone putting Obama and fiscal responsibility in the same sentence is delusional and in very deep denial.
A small tidbit from the article says a lot about where we’re headed.
“The 2009 deficit, for the fiscal year [...]

Fox News – A study conducted by Northwestern University showed people are now getting high on and abusing a legal substance: caffeine.
It seems people are starting to abuse caffeine as a drug and this is simply intolerable. I plan to raise legislation to make consumption of caffeine illegal due to this gross misuse of [...]

I had a discussion with a woman on facebook today concerning my support of gay marriage. While I generally do not practice posting conversations I’ve had with other people on my blog, I felt the need to post this one up.
Her: Stephen, you don’t know me from Adam, but I must say something here. I [...]

Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s [...]

President Obama plans to reduce our annual deficit to 533 billion by 2013.
Is it just me, or is this more of the same deficit spending that he so adamantly opposed? At a time when we need to start reducing our total debt, our president plans to take us even several more trillion into debt. In [...]

Shortly after class, an economics student approaches his economics professor and says, “I don’t understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?”
The professor replied, “I don’t have any time to explain it at my office, but if you come over to my house on Saturday and help me with my weekend project, I’ll [...]

According to the Dallas Morning News, the Texas Restaurant Association has decided to support a state-wide smoking ban in an attempt to “level the playing field”. This can only be construed as a cut and run tactic as they have folded their hand for business rights. Instead of advocating for all business owner’s rights to [...]

Yahoo! NEW YORK – Crude oil prices have fallen to new lows for this year. So you’d think gas prices would sink right along with them.
Not so.
On Thursday, for example, crude oil closed just under $34 a barrel, its lowest point for 2009. But the national average price of a gallon of gas rose to [...]