Last week, the White House let it be known that President Barack Obama would be once again paying a visit to the Real Washington a few days into May. Details of the planned trip were not released at the time, but all of the President’s recent trips here have been almost exclusively for fundraising, so […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Posted inBreaking News, Elections
Rick Santorum ends presidential campaign
A week after failing to defeat Mitt Romney in Wisconsin’s Republican primary — portrayed by the traditional media as a make-it or break-it moment for his candidacy — Rick Santorum announced at a press conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that he was ending his presidential campaign. He did not endorse Mitt Romney, who now appears to […]
Posted inCivil Liberties, Policy Topics
Supreme Court says police can strip-search anyone they arrest without probable cause
Federal, state, and local authorities may force any person they arrest to submit to a strip-search, whether or not there is probable cause for such an invasion of a suspect’s privacy, the Supreme Court ruled this morning, setting a dangerous and unwelcome precedent that NPI strongly condemns. In a five-to-four decision, Justices Anthony Kennedy, John […]