We Americans have lost our identity
My favorite magazine by far was Constitution, published by the Foundation for the U.S. Constitution. No longer in existence, it was full of riveting stories for students and adults with beautifully reproduced historic documents, portraits and ...
 3.3K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 77.0 Congress slowly consolidates power
The public forum section of The World addresses a variety of views and opinions regarding the various problems that are plaguing our nations today. Some of these letters indicate a firm grasp of the political structure that has led us to our current ...
2.5K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 77.0 Perceived bias taints ballot titles
Legislators who write tax laws wrangle endlessly over details and nuances. Every phrase is subject to microscopic negotiation. But when a tax law goes to voters, the choice is a simple yes or no, based on just a few sentences of description. Those se...
2.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 122.0 Ballot titles draw fire
SALEM A business-backed group that opposes the Legislature s $733 million tax increase is pursuing legal action to block what it says are biased ballot titles for two referendum measures. Oregonians will vote Jan. 26 on whether to uphold the t...
2.7K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 77.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 199.0 Ballot titles draw fire
SALEM A business-backed group that opposes the Legislature s $733 million tax increase is pursuing legal action to block what it says are biased ballot titles for two referendum measures. Oregonians will vote Jan. 26 on whether to uphold the t...
2.7K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 77.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 199.0 U.S. files Polanski extradition request
GENEVA (AP) The United States has asked Switzerland to hand over Roman Polanski to authorities in California, where he could serve up to two years in prison for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl, Swiss authorities said today. The Justice M...
3.0K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 99.0 Honduras coup talks end without resolution
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) The latest round of talks to resolve the dispute over Honduras June 28 coup has ended in failure, a negotiator for ousted leftist President Manuel Zelaya said today, adding that further talks were unlikely. Negotiator Vi...
2.3K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 99.0 Court rules burglary was only trespassing
PORTLAND (AP) The Oregon Supreme Court has overturned a burglary conviction after ruling that even if a suspect confesses, prosecutors must show evidence a person is illegally in a building with intent to commit a crime. Amrit Nathan Chatelain was ...
0.7K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 122.0 Afghan leader accused of meddling in fraud probe
KABUL (AP) Afghan President Hamid Karzai s top challenger in disputed elections alleged today the embattled head of state engineered the resignation of a chief fraud investigator to cast doubt over a process that may force a runoff vote. Results fr...
4.6K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 189.0 Conservative case against G.W. Bush
How many times during the past eight years did you hear that former President Bush was a dangerous right-wing extremist? What you heard less often were expressions of the deep reservations some conservatives felt about Bush s governing philosophy. Co...
4.3K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 77.0 Diplomats head to Honduras for post-coup talks
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Diplomats from throughout the hemisphere were converging today on Honduras to resolve a standoff that has left the impoverished Central American country with two presidents, a capital scarred by protests and a bitterly divided...
3.9K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 77.0 Supreme Court to rule in cross case
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is taking up a long-running legal fight over a cross honoring World War I soldiers that has stood for 75 years on public land in a remote part of California. The cross, on an outcrop known as Sunrise Rock in the Mo...
0.7K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 386.0 Court takes up free-speech case of pit bull videos
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today in a case that is shaping up as a major fight over free speech rights and shines a spotlight on graphic videos depicting pit bull fights and other acts of animal cruelty. The Obama admini...
2.1K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 128.0 Courts will examine Ohio's execution plan
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The national impact of the unprecedented halting of a rapist s execution after two hours and temporary reprieves for other condemned inmates likely will become clear over the next few months as courts examine the state s lethal-...
5.5K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 128.0 New term, new judge
WASHINGTON Justice David Souter never danced the salsa in public. Justice John Paul Stevens doesn t sing in karaoke bars. And Chief Justice John Roberts hasn t thrown out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium. But that was yesterday s Supreme Court. Th...
5.3K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 260.0 Justices think outside the court
WASHINGTON (AP) Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy. Justice Sonia Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washing-ton. Right now I like many other Americans, it wo...
3.9K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 155.0 Supreme Court begins new term
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court began its new term trying to decide how long a suspect s request for a lawyer is valid. The justices heard their first arguments of the 2009 term this morning. The court will have to decide whether to throw out a p...
2.5K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 1000.0 Reform saboteurs may rue their actions
Since March, $133 million has been spent by the health insurance industry, and the pharmaceutical corporations have spent $162 million in lobbying to defeat health care reform legislation. The public relations firm that created the ...
2.6K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 77.0 | 
