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The Lords-for-hire allegations came after journalists, posing as lobbyists representing a fictional Asian firm that was setting up a chain of shops in the U.K., approached 10 Lords for help amending business-rates legislation. Three Conservative peers, a Liberal Democrat, an Ulster Unionist and a Labour peer ignored...
The peers identified by the Sunday Times deny acting improperly, and Lord Truscott has said he knew the supposed lobbyist was an undercover reporter and was simply stringing him along. In video footage posted on the Sunday Times website, Truscott boasts of his connections and explains what his work would...
"I want to stress that this house, despite what people may think from the coverage in the past week, is a house full of people who in the vast majority of cases do a bloody good job," Baroness Royall told the Sunday Times on Feb. 1. Despite the bad press...
There is hope that this issue will someday be addressed in its entirety. Georgia Attorney General Thurbert E. Baker has already written a letter to CAIR supporting the principle of religious accommodation in our courtrooms; he should follow up on his support for First Amendment rights by sanctioning or censuring...
No. The policy of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is that abortion "may not be claimed as a family-planning service" under any circumstances. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has barred the use of federal funds to pay for abortions. Individual states can use their own funds to...