“The GOP platform committee has included a plank in this year’s draft document calling for “vigorous” enforcement of anti-pornography laws. In a press release Monday from Morality in Media, a faith-based non-profit, President Patrick Trueman, a former anti-porn prosecutor, calls the current distribution of pornography “a violation of current federal …

“The Sun newspaper printed the controversial naked pictures of Prince Harry because Rupert Murdoch wanted to fire a warning shot at Lord Justice Leveson, it has been claimed. News International has refused to comment on the speculation, but Mr Murdoch took to Twitter to say the decision to publish them …

“A divided Republican Party was on full display Tuesday when Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) supporters and other grassroots activists loudly booed House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on the first full day of the Republican National Convention. The fight was over the unglamorous rules process that dictates how delegates are apportioned …

“For years, religious people have been against homosexual couples adopting children. But did you know they were really just trying to protect the gays Apparently, that’s the case. At least it seems to be going by a recent clip of Pat Robertson on The 700 Club scoped out by Right …

“A group of four United States Army soldiers who stand accused of killing a former brother-in-arms and his girlfriend committed the crime to keep their secret militia group under wraps, prosecutors in a Georgia court said on Monday. The soldiers, who are all stationed at Georgia’s Fort Stewart, are all …

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan campaign with Kid Rock and his song “Born Free”. Douglas Caballero asks: Does Kid Rock’s music and lifestyle fly in the face of the socially conservative GOP platform? Has Kid Rock reformed? Or is this all just hypocrisy by the Republicans? It’s ironic, at best. …

“At 6:27 a.m. on his first day as a sophomore at Perry Hall High School in the Baltimore suburbs, Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. updated his Facebook status. “First day of school, last day of my life,” he wrote. He then typed a symbol resembling a person with two middle fingers …

“Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith inadvertently waded into the war of words over rape and abortion Monday – issues his party has been trying to steer clear of in recent days. Asked about his stance on abortion during a stop in Harrisburg, Smith said he opposed it in all …

“Democrat-turned-Republican Artur Davis, the former congressman, is set for a prime-time address to the GOP convention, and his one-time colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus are not pleased. Fourteen members of the black caucus wrote to the Alabama political leader to share their disapproval as Davis is prepared to take …

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