Personhood USA has been taking its cause outside of the country lately. The group, which works to criminalize abortion and some forms of birth control, recently applauded Hungary for adopting a new constitution (.pdf) that it says “goes further in protecting the personhood rights of all humans by protecting More…
Amid fears that Switzerland might come to an agreement with the United States on banking privacy and tax evasion disclosures, Credit Suisse issued a report identifying those countries it determined to have the highest risks of default on their sovereign debts. Number 16 on the list More…
I got a disturbing press release last night from the Defense Department. Two U.S. soldiers — Sgt. 1st Class Christopher D. Shaw and Staff Sgt. Jack M. Martin III — were killed supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. The deaths of U.S. soldiers at war is tragically all too familiar. But look More…
Public Policy Polling has a new study of the “birther” movement and finds that by a 44-36 margin, Republicans don’t believe that “Barack Obama was born in the United States.” Twenty percent are unsure. For comparison, both Democrats (82-12) and independents (64-18) know that the president was born in More…
Peter Spiegel has a really good piece in The Los Angeles Times today about Special Forces in the Philippines:
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