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Hasn't worked? Obama stands up for Romney's wife

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House - and President Barack Obama himself - rushed into a damage control campaign Thursday to blunt the impact of a Democratic consultant's suggestion that Ann Romney isn't qualified to discuss the economy because she "hasn't worked a day in her life."...

Hasn't worked? Obama stands up for Romney's wife

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House - and President Barack Obama himself - rushed into a damage control campaign Thursday to blunt the impact of a Democratic consultant's suggestion that Ann Romney isn't qualified to discuss the economy because she "hasn't worked a day in her life."...

Hasn't worked? Obama stands up for Romney's wife

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House - and President Barack Obama himself - rushed into a damage control campaign Thursday to blunt the impact of a Democratic consultant's suggestion that Ann Romney isn't qualified to discuss the economy because she "hasn't worked a day in her life."...

Opponents of death penalty see momentum

Death penalty opponents said Thursday that this week's votes putting Connecticut on track to become the 17th state to abandon capital punishment shows that the long campaign against the death penalty is gaining serious momentum.

"The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has been at it for 35 years, ...

Noonan: It's Over. What Have We Learned?

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
The GOP still practices primogeniture, but much else has changed in politics.


Todd Zywicki: SpongeBob SquarePants' Last Stand

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
Restricting TV ads for food aimed at kids won't help cure the child obesity problem.


Andy Kessler: Patent Trolls vs. Progress

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
Before you can sue to protect your discovery, you should first have to make a product or partner with someone who does.


Chris Berg: The Real Reason for the Tragedy of the Titanic

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
The disaster is often seen as a tale of hubris, social stratification and capitalist excess. The truth is considerably more sobering.


Zimmerman appears in Fla. court

Suspect George Zimmerman made his first appearance in a Florida courtroom Thursday, the day after he was charged with second-degree murder in the racially charged shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin.

Mr. Zimmerman, flanked by a police officer and attorney Mark O'Mara, appeared calm and alert during the brief ...

From small-town Maine to Cherry Blossom royalty

Joan Boos - then known as Joan Lovering - moved from her small Maine town during World War II to Washington to help in the war effort. She was named one of the 48 original Cherry Blossom princesses for the Cherry Blossom Festival in 1948, just three years after the ...

Bishops plea against obeying 'unjust laws'

A panel of the nation's Catholic bishops said Thursday that their flock "must have the courage not to obey unjust laws" and called for Catholic political leaders, clergy and laity to pray, fast and speak out for religious liberty during a two-week period that ends on Independence Day.

"What we ...

American Scene: Two Coast Guard members fatally shot at remote station

ALASKA

KODIAK — Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot at a communications station on an island off Alaska, officials said Thursday.

Officials said it remained unclear if the deaths at the Coast Guard station on Kodiak Island were a double homicide or murder-suicide. Capt. Jesse Moore said it was ...

Hendershott and White: Traditional Catholicism Is Winning

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
There were 467 new priestly ordinations in the U.S. last year, and Boston's seminary had to turn away applicants.


Iran Talks Déjà Vu

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
Obama gives Tehran reasons to doubt his seriousness.


Visa Protectionism

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
Raising fees on worker visas only depresses job creation for all.


Cancer Care Grand Rounds

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
A new study suggests higher U.S. oncology spending is 'worth it.'


Stephen Hayes: What the U.S.-Iran Talks Will Ignore

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
Everyone's talking nukes, but Iran is a world hub of jihadist terrorism, including al Qaeda.


Romney courts gun-rights group in presidential bid

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Running for the Senate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney once assured voters in a state with strong gun-control laws: "I don't line up with the NRA." Now the likely Republican presidential nominee, Romney will headline the National Rifle Association's annual convention Friday and assure tens of thousands of gun-rights activists that he's squarely on their side....

Between Belief and Despair

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
A group of thinkers tried to explain Russia to a West that could understand it only in terms of "communism" or "freedom." Lesley Chamberlain reviews "Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia."


AFL-CIO Super PAC to focus on voter turnout

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The AFL-CIO's new "super" political action committee won't spend much on television ads, but will focus instead on mobilizing thousands of union and nonunion voters, officials at the labor federation said Thursday....
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