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Plan B One-Step

‘Morning-after’ pill goes OTC to 15-year-olds

Abortion |  The Food and Drug Administration announced today that the so-called “morning-after” pill will now be available over-the-counter without a prescription to…

A new short form application for the Affordable Health Care Act released by the Obama administration today.

How Obamacare will hurt you

Healthcare |  The Wall Street Journal this morning has an explanation of how Obamacare will negatively affect great numbers of Americans. Summary: “In total, it…

A surveillance photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev inside the gas station where the suspects stopped.

Three things we didn’t know about last Friday’s search for the Boston bombers

Media |  When The New York Times floods a zone with reporters and concentrates on ascertaining facts, it can do a good job. Here’s what seven Times reporters working the…

HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan

Wanted: Reporting help from HUD-hit readers

Housing |  With millions of homeowners under water in 2011, and housing markets a mess in other ways as well, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development…

The remains for a black backpack that contained one of the Boston Marathon bombs.

The enemy within our borders

Terrorism |  The last time there was a terrorist attack on America, we got the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. Each entity…

A participant in a Margaret Thatcher

Thatcher haters celebrate her death

Politics |  BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has prompted reactions from Britain’s far left that takes bad taste…

Do you know an SSDI recipient?

Do you know an SSDI recipient?

Government |  Social Security Disability Insurance is on track to run out of money in 2016. This threatens the benefits of 9 million Americans who now receive SSDI…

Melissa Harris-Perry

State-owned, state-run children

Government |  Melissa Harris-Perry, a political scientist at Tulane University and an MSNBC talk show host, has ignited conservative rage with one of the network’s…

Copies of President Obama's budget arrives on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Better late than never

Budget |  President Obama’s tardy budget is bloated with tax hikes and more government programs but does offer some entitlement reform

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signs legislation restrictiing weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines.

Tougher gun laws based on emotion, not logic

Law |  In 1983 when President Reagan ordered the deployment of missiles in Europe as part of his “peace through strength” strategy to counter the Soviet Union,

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley

Putting food stamps on a diet

Government |  I used to take a neighbor to the grocery store occasionally to buy food. Since she was too poor to afford a car, I wasn’t surprised that she paid with food…

Citizen soda addicts

Citizen soda addicts

Government |  Last week, I offered a conservative argument for why state and local governments have the right to stick their noses in our soda cups (as it were). In his now…

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