Promises, Promises

Obama throws gays under the bus
President Barack Obama promised gay and lesbian voters he would repeal a law banning their open service in the military, would do away with a federal marriage law and would champion their causes from the White House. In his first five months, he’s taken incremental steps that have little [...]

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The Cap and Tax Fiction

Democrats off-loading economics to pass climate bill exchange.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done.
Despite House Energy and [...]

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Student Strip Search Illegal

School Violated Teen Girl’s Rights, Supreme Court Rules
Arizona school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old girl when they strip-searched her on the suspicion she might be hiding ibuprofen in her underwear, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The decision put school districts on notice that such searches are “categorically distinct” from other efforts to [...]

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In ’98, Hints From Sotomayor on Death Penalty

(New York Times) -As a drug kingpin and his bodyguard, both black, faced the first federal death penalty trial in Manhattan since the days of the Rosenbergs, their lawyers argued that the practice of capital punishment was racist.
“We’re doing what the death penalty has always done historically, which is target minority people,” one of the [...]

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Obama’s Health Care Claims

He says the uninsured cost the rest of U.S. families $1,000 a year.
Summary
We found several claims in Obama’s recent health-care sales pitches that could use some explanation or qualification.
He said “the average family pays a thousand dollars in extra premiums to pay for people going to the emergency room who don’t have health insurance.” That’s [...]

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The Strip-Search Room

Students manhandled by police in Bloomberg’s schools have no place to complain.
When our mayor and schools chancellor accept awards from national education organizations for regenerating New York City’s schools, they somehow neglect to mention a certain school safety issue: There is a room, located in the dean’s office at Hillcrest High School in Queens, that [...]

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In health bill, billions for parks, paths

WASHINGTON – Sweeping healthcare legislation working its way through Congress is more than an effort to provide insurance to millions of Americans without coverage. Tucked within is a provision that could provide billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms, and even farmers’ markets.
The add-ons – characterized as part of a broad effort to [...]

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USDA to oversee school snack food

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department would be given the power to regulate all food sold in schools — including vending machine snacks — when Congress renews child nutrition programs, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Tuesday.
Chairman Tom Harkin said he hopes the committee will start work on legislation to reauthorize [...]

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