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Rancher Cliven Bundy is seeking a judicial ruling that the federal land in Nevada on which he was grazing cattle belongs to the state of Nevada and the people of Clark County, not the U.S. government.

On August 1, the one-year “safe harbor” for religious charities objecting to provisions of Obamacare will end. Starting then, these nonprofit employers will be forced to violate their religious beliefs or pay large fines. In charge of collecting the fines will be our recently newsworthy friends at the Internal Revenue Service. To recap how we got here: In 2010 a panel created by the new health care law determined that all health insurance policies provided by employers must cover contraception, sterilization, and abortion drugs free of charge. Employers not complying with this Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate will be...

For the first time in 17 years, 15 of those sitting on the Washington Supreme Court, I have agreed to represent a private citizen. And I am pleased to lend Linda Jordan a helping hand. In good faith Ms. Jordan commenced an action to question President Obama's name on the ballot. She did the best she could with limited resources and no legal training. The government's response was immediate and in some respects heavy handed. Having obtained a summary dismissal of her case, and then her appeal, the attorney general went further to demand the Secretary of State be reimbursed,...

Drunken-driving limit won't change 03/21/02 Stephen Ohlemacher Plain Dealer Bureau Columbus - A proposal to lower the legal alcohol limit for Ohio drivers died in the state legislature yesterday, even though the state is risking millions of dollars a year in federal highway money by keeping the higher limit. House Speaker Larry Householder scheduled a vote on a bill to lower the legal blood-alcohol limit from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent yesterday. But he took it off the calendar at the last minute when he realized there weren't enough votes in the House to approve it. "In our caucus [of...