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Republican state Rep. John Bear of Lititz is under fire from a liberal activist group for recently joining the ranks of state lawmakers who are members of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council.

Critics have described the nonprofit council as an influential front group for corpora...

Last week, North Carolinians approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage.

Because gay marriage already was illegal there, all the vote proved is that, by incorporating discrimination into its Constitution, North Carolina still clings to its antebellum roots.

On the other hand,...

President Barack Obama's support of same-sex marriage has been portrayed by some as a "gamble."

A "rare moment of risk-taking."

A move that could "carry a political cost" in November.

"CONTROVERSY OVER GAY MARRIAGE," USA Today huffed. "President takes sides in political gamble."

"Obama B...

When Artie Van Why heard President Obama had declared his support for gay marriage on Wednesday, he immediately called the White House.

"I said, 'Would you please tell President Obama that I thank him for his courageous stand for marriage equality?' " said Van Why, a writer who works at the Fulto...

Ray Manlove said it is not difficult for him to talk to people about Barack Obama.

To Manlove, a neighborhood team leader for the president's Organizing for America campaign, talking about the president flows naturally from talking to people about the issues that are closest to them.

Health ca...

What a year it's been for women's reproductive health care, the national president of Planned Parenthood told about 160 people who gathered for a breakfast Friday in Lancaster.

The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity announced it would no longer provide breast exam funds to Planned ...

"Economic calamity. Global war. Oppression. Darkness like the world has never seen."

Glenn Beck predicted a bleak future ahead as he spoke to more than 1,740 people at the Lancaster County Convention Center on Friday night as a guest of Dayspring Christian Academy.

"We are at a point where eve...

Rick Santorum made the right move at the right time.

But just barely.

His campaign is nearly $1 million in debt, and there was no reason for him to endure the reels of negative attack ads awaiting him in Pennsylvania or to risk the humiliation of losing his home state on April 24.

So he qui...

In the end, Rick Santorum was humble.

And characteristically defiant.

The Republican presidential hopeful, who abandoned his long-shot campaign Tuesday, described his run for the nomination as a "miraculous experience." He also described himself as the only GOP candidate willing to speak out o...

In the 1932 movie "Horse Feathers," Groucho Marx sang, "Whatever it is, I'm against it."

The day after the 2008 election, congressional Republicans adopted "whatever it is, I'm against it" as their refrain, to be sung every time President Barack Obama came up with an idea.

Any idea.

Since t...