What The Bible Says About Wine

Parents of children absent from school prosecuted and 25 jailed, Ministry of Justice reveals Nearly 12,000 parents were prosecuted and 25 given prison sentences because of their children’s truancy from school last year, figures show. The longest jail sentence imposed on a parent was 90 days, according to the Ministry of Justice . A total [...]

Andrew Leonard, Salon"Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say," blared the Friday headline in the New York Times. The traditional strategy for measuring poverty, we were told, did not include the benefits of federal programs like food stamps and tax credits that were helping to keep Americans above the poverty line. A [...]

Popcorn, soda, Whoppers and an Icee could cost 5 percent more under legislation that Mayor Vincent C. Gray is proposing to generate revenue to build a movie theater east of the Anacostia River and to lure filmmakers to the District. Gray went Hollywood this summer, traveling to Los Angeles to talk to movie executives about [...]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney will deliver what his campaign is billing as a major policy speech on government spending to a large gathering of fiscally conservative activists in Washington, D.C., on Friday night. The former Massachusetts governor is slated to speak at the Defending the American Dream Summit, an annual convention hosted by the [...]