During a debate about teaching creationism in the local schools, Delaware’s Republican candidate for the Senate, Christie O’Donnell said something that some consider to be a huge gaffe, others consider it to be right: she said that she didn’t know in what part of the US Constitution the idea about separation of church and state [...]
Jesse Jackson Jr. has apologized to his supporters that may have been disappointed by the allegations in the press lately. He was suspected of raising funds for Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor. Jackson did apologize, but denied any wrongdoing. The allegations said that Jesse Jackson Jr. had offered to raise millions of dollars for [...]
Elena Kagan’s nomination to the full Senate for consideration has been voted 13 to 6 by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now Elena Kagan can hope to become a Supreme Court justice and she could be confirmed in early August. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was the only Republican to support Elena Kagan. Carte Goodwin has [...]
The recently approved initiative that aims to make it a felony to be undocumented immigrants in the state of Arizona, generated a heated rally in downtown Phoenix, in which nine people were arrested. The nine detainees are protesting against the bill SB 1070, passed Wednesday in the Arizona Senate, chained to a gate of the [...]
Scott P. Jones, Executive Vice President of the Forest Landowners Association (FLA), testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources regarding the need for a broad definition of “wood” from private forestland as it should be included in any national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). Jones said the definition is critical to help [...]