Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday oversimplified and misrepresented an ongoing news story about a former Democratic congressman, an anti-abortion-rights group and the new health-care reform law.
For the past 82 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation — in its reporting of national crime statistics — has not recognized that men can be raped, that women can be raped by other women, that men and women can be raped with objects or that men and women can More…
Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn has issued a statement in response to the Florida announcement that the state will move its 2012 primary date to Jan. 31, 2012.
“The arrogance shown by Florida’s elected leadership is disappointing, but not surprising,” Strawn said. “Equally Equally troubling is to More…
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison and 19 House colleagues Thursday asked the Judicial Conference to refer U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Department of Justice for failure to fully disclose his finances as required by law.
In response to two lawsuits, one of which was brought by the U.S. Justice Department, a federal judge has blocked parts of the Alabama immigration enforcement law, while letting other parts go into effect. A third lawsuit challenging the law, which was brought by the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law More…
Seven years ago, the new head of the National Organization for Marriage, John Eastman, testified at a House impeachment hearing in Denver called by then-first-term-Rep. Greg Brophy. The staunch social conservative lawmaker from Wray, Colo., drew national attention when he targeted Denver Judge John Coughlin as an “activist More…
In light of Georgia’s plans to go through with the execution of Troy Davis at 7:00 p.m. EST tonight, despite the recantation of seven of the nine witnesses that originally testified against him and the worldwide appeals, death penalty opponents also cite the high cost of executing inmates More…
UPDATE: Sept. 16, 10:30 a.m. This article was amended with a correction*.
Amid constant congressional squabbling over spending and the deficit in Congress, 59 Democrats and Republicans have united in pledging to spend more money for research and prevention efforts to combat the spread of AIDS domestically and worldwide.
After two years in court battling controversial anti-abortion-rights legislation in Arizona, Planned Parenthood of Arizona declared Monday it would not appeal an Arizona Court of Appeals ruling, which last month upheld most of the provisions they challenged.
The Florida Commission on the Status of Women tells The Florida Independent that its “2011 Summary of Florida Laws Affecting Women and Families” report will be revised to include the anti-abortion bills that were absent in a previous incarnation.
Kelly Sciba, the executive director of the Florida Commission on the More…
rss