County Commissioners moved with appropriate speed Wednesday to seek a place on the August ballot for election of an interim Sessions Court judge.
The decision Friday by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to restore funding to Planned Parenthood is not a good deed.
The federal food stamp program without a doubt provides vital help to many individuals and families who truly need assistance in putting food on their tables. Is it a program without fault? No. Can it be improved? Of course.
Birth control pills, in the main, are effective and safe. The experience of millions of women has proved that to be the case.
When members of Congress voluntarily take steps — as the Senate did Monday — toward banning their quiet privilege to use insider information to make profitable investments in stocks and securities, you know public confidence in Congress is at an unusually low ebb and they’re trying to regain trust.
If you’ve played Monopoly, you’re familiar with the Get Out of Jail free card. In real life, there’s no such thing.
Freddie Mac is one of two federal mortgage agencies that have been under pressure from the Obama administration to provide mortgage relief for homeowners stuck with high-interest-rate loans and/or underwater mortgages.
It's been a year since the uprising that led to the fall of long-time Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak began, but the hopes for democratic government and a more open society in Egypt raised by the so-called "Arab Spring" movement have failed to bear fruit.
The clash between medical and scientific findings and those who disregard those findings for political, cultural or religious values is nowhere more potent than that over women's reproductive rights. That's long been the case with abortion per se.
Newt Gingrich's lust for the presidency is so overwhelming that he'll say almost anything to win votes. He proved that last week in the Florida Republican presidential primary.
Mitt Romney passed Newt Gingrich in the polls a few days ago and appeared headed toward a victory tomorrow in the Florida Republican presidential primary.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck a major blow in support of the Fourth Amendment last week when the justices unanimously ruled -- though in two overlapping opinions -- that police use of modern digital technology, such as GPS tracking of suspect's car, still requires a search warrant as specified in the Constitution.
The digital age requires more than broad Fourth Amendment protections against police intrusion, as discussed in the editorial above. Mind-boggling troves of personal data gleaned from our computer use are now being stored, traded, sold and mined by all manner of computer makers, online businesses and social media.
President Obama's State of the Union call for all states to raise their minimum school-leaving age to 18 could be dismissed as just another political exhortation that sounds good and perfectly reasonable, but is not apt to turn the gears in most state's education machinery.
The new rules for healthier, more nutritional school lunches announced this week by the federal Agricultural department for the next school year do not go as far as they should.
