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In these hyperbolic times, it's easy to fall into overstatement. Somehow, the farm-to-table dining preferences of Sarah Huckabee Sanders or the subliminal, sartorial messages of the first lady have become the subject of breathless debate. Cotton-candy controversies swirl for a moment and then disappear. The replacement of retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is not like that. It is, to paraphrase former Vice President Joe Biden, a big doggone deal. So big that Biden's old boss, former President Barack Obama, has descended from his Olympian remove to fire up the troops Thursday. He urged Democrats to quit moping, avoid complacency...

The Alameda, Calif., public schools are adopting a curriculum that will require first graders to read literature that equates same-sex unions with a family made up of a mother, father and child. Parents will not be allowed to opt their first graders out of the curriculum. Members of the Alameda United School District (AUSD) school board voted 3 to 2 last week to implement the “Safe Schools” curriculum, which supporters say is aimed at stopping anti-homosexual bullying in schools. The program includes a between one and four lessons each year between grades 1 and 5 to introduce students to “LGBT”...

The recent Terri Schiavo controversy has raised once again the question of whether government ought to be in the business of "legislating morality." Many liberals and libertarians accused conservatives who worked to get Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted of trying to enforce compliance with a religious ethic via the power of the state. It was also insinuated that their motivation lay in sentiment rather than reason, and sectarian fervor rather than scientific fact. Such charges reflect a rhetorical ploy frequently made use of by liberals and libertarians, to the effect that conservatives' objections to pornography, say, or to same-sex marriage,...

I stumbled upon a bill that "grassfire.net" is trying to get alot of people to back, that deals with Internet Pornography. The bill is H.R. 3833. You can click on the link above to view the entire bill(a pretty short read). I want to know if y'all think that this is government largesse or in the national interest.