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Amendment XIV Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I am looking for an AK47. The Russian AK’s are gone or the price is beyond my budget. What is in-line as the next in quality AK, by country of manufacture?

There were silver linings on Election Day that should not be dismissed. It's time to disband the circular firing squad and focus on the superb opportunities conservatives face in the 2014 midterms and the 2016 general election. More

Shocked like most of us, I went looking for the Tea Party sites. They are there, but activity is void. What site do you recommend?

A divorced family member is being harassed by the “former” spouse, who has assumed the profile of the victim. What action can the victim take?

TOWN OF WARNER ELECTIONEERING POLICIES & PROCEDURES 1. PURPOSE It is the intent of the Town of Warner to promote an impartial government and to ensure that its citizens are free from harassment. The purpose of these policies and procedures is to regulate the distribution of campaign materials, electioneering activity or any other activity for any purpose which affects the safety, welfare and rights of members of the public on Town-owned property, or having a tendency to annoy, harass, coerce or intimidate persons passing in or on Town-owned property. 2. AUTHORITY RSA 47:17 permits towns to regulate all streets and...

LOS ANGELES — A former gang member who founded an anti-violence group called No Guns has pleaded no contest to federal weapons charges. Hector "Big Weasel" Marroquin, 51, and co-defendant Sylvia Arrellano, 25, entered pleas Thursday for three counts of manufacture, distribution and transport for sale of an unlawful assault weapon. Arrellano also pleaded no contest to machine gun conversion and possessing a silencer and acknowledged that the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang. She was given until Tuesday to surrender for sentencing and would likely be sentenced to four years in prison, prosecutors said....

As I watched the speeches of the victors in the Iowa caucuses, I was stunned at how vague the comments of the candidates were. "Unity." "Change." "Hope." "Faith." What do these words mean besides evoking vague memories of films of Der Fuhrer screaming "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" to wild masses at Nuremberg? Mostly nothing, I suspect. So, from my safe little office in Rancho Mirage, California, I will start to offer some specifics of what government can do to redeem these vague phrases. A pledge that if the candidate is President, he will: Not allow there to be...

SOON AFTER becoming Massachusetts governor, Willard Mitt Romney retroactively imposed new taxes on non-residents, including Granite State citizens who work, conduct business, and/or invest in the Bay State. Romney's higher taxes reached into New Hampshire and helped vacuum at least $95 million in marginal income back across the border. According to Massachusetts Department of Revenue figures, the total amount that New Hampshire taxpayers surrendered to Massachusetts grew from $213.6 million in 2002 to $248.9 million in 2006, a 16.5 percent increase. (Data for 2006 are preliminary.) Had 2002's tax baseline remained flat, New Hampshire taxpayers would have kept $95 million...

ONE of the reasons this newspaper has endorsed U.S. Sen. John McCain over former Gov. Mitt Romney has become clearer in recent days: When the campaigning gets serious and the gloves come off, McCain sticks to the facts; Romney plays loose with them. We don't mind what some deride as "negative'' campaigning, if the negatives are merely a true look at a candidate's record. Romney obviously senses that New Hampshire Republicans are looking at McCain and therefore he is spending his millions to plaster the TV with anti-McCain messages. Fair enough. Politics isn't beanbag. But Romney is apparently so desperate...

Home / Business Penalties to rise for shunning insurance State healthcare levy could exceed $900 Email|Print| Text size – + By Jeffrey Krasner Globe Staff / January 1, 2008 Penalties for Massachusetts residents who can afford health insurance but do not purchase it in 2008 could quadruple compared with the maximum penalty in 2007, according to draft regulations released by the Department of Revenue yesterday. more stories like thisThe maximum penalty for those who flout the law and do not buy health insurance would be $912 a year, compared to $219 in 2007. The higher penalty is intended to get...

Mitt's flips: Why they matter 5 hours, 6 minutes ago HAS Gov. Mitt Romney become more conservative in the past few years or has he shrewdly tacked to the right to get the Republican presidential nomination? We don't know. What we do know is that Romney's record involves more than just switching from a few liberal positions to a few conservative ones. It represents wholesale conversions on issue after issue, sometimes back and forth, and with some false biographical statements thrown in. Any candidate for office is allowed to change his mind. People learn new facts or have personal experiences...

Like the gyroscopes that keep ships and planes on course, firm principles and a profound sense of honor guide Sen. John McCain. He learns from his mistakes, but he does not abandon long-held beliefs, even when his stands could cost him the presidency. McCain's willingness to break with his party on issues like climate change and immigration, his honesty and his refusal to pander make him the Monitor's choice in the Jan. 8 Republican presidential primary. Last summer in Concord, with his campaign broke and his unwavering support for the war in Iraq costing him politically, McCain said he would...

Four former members of Congress, one from as far away as South Dakota, gathered in Concord yesterday to praise the fiscal restraint of Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and to criticize the tax policy of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. As governor, Romney raised fees, which generated an additional $400 million in revenue in their first year, according to Factcheck.org, a nonpartisan website that examines candidates' statements. Romney doubled fees for court filings and gun licenses, and he created a $10 fee to receive a certificate of blindness

In a recent cover profile in the Weekly Standard by the magazine's Fred Barnes, Romney is portrayed as the man who would be the CEO-in-chief of America. Says Barnes quoting Romney, a Harvard MBA: "His idea of the perfect deal is not when one side wins but when 'you find a new alternative that everybody agrees is the right way to go. That doesn't always happen.'"