Free Republic

June is just around the corner and with it will come one of the most highly anticipated rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court. While we don’t know the specifics of the ruling yet, we do know that the justices are taking a hard look at the text of the Constitution. They’re also considering the meaning of several laws and regulations as they have been understood by generations of Americans during the nearly 250-year history of our country. Finally, they are weighing the rights of adults seeking to engage in private decisions about potential risks to their health and welfare vs....

Sarah Palin has begun to get on the nerves of Republican senators who say the former GOP vice presidential nominee is taking her own White House aspirations entirely too seriously. But those same senators may have their eye on a 2012 White House run or be friends with senators with presidential ambitions. And Palin, who does not have a lot of Washington connections, energized the party’s grass roots in 2008 while bucking the D.C. establishment, leaving much of the party’s elite grumbling about her appeal to the conservative base. Several GOP senators offered searing criticism of the Alaska governor when...