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President Obama speaks during a fundraising event Tuesday, July 17, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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“We believe that the capital punishment bill that we put forward is not only right for Massachusetts, but it’s a model for the nation,” Mitt Romney said of his state’s death-penalty law in 2005. It limited capital punishment to the “worst of the worst” crimes. (Associated Press)
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President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is as healthy as ever as a campaign issue. Both Republicans and Democrats are using it to their fullest.
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Mohammad Akhter, director of the D.C. Department of Health, is stepping down on Tuesday to work on the local implementation of the federal health reform law. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Men carry an extremely sick girl to the only medical center in the Yida refugee camp in Unity State, South Sudan on Saturday, May 12, 2012. With more than 30,000 residents, many of whom are undernourished, the few international aid organizations operating in Yida struggle to provide sufficient services. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators shout slogans condemning the recent austerity measures announced by the Spanish government, during a protest in front of the Popular Party in Madrid on Friday. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest a second wave of wage cuts in as many years plus planned austerity measures. (Associated Press)
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Seventeen sailors died and 39 were injured in a suicide attack on the USS Cole the day before while it was refueling in the Yemeni port of Aden. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop at the historic Fire Station No. 1, in downtown Roanoke, Va., Friday, July 13, 2012. Obama traveled to southwest Virginia to discuss choice in this election between two fundamentally different visions on how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and pay down the debt. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
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President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign stop at the historic Fire Station No. 1, in downtown Roanoke, Va., Friday, July 13, 2012. Obama traveled to southwest Virginia to discuss choice in this election between two fundamentally different visions on how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs and pay down the debt. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
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Book talk: David Lamp at CATO Lovers of free markets and individual liberty like to say that the GOP is a big tent. But to suggest that conservatism is more about building coalitions than adhering to first principles is to erase what makes being a Republican different from being anything else. First principles, when adhered to consistently, are what keep Americans and their markets free. Theoretically, this means that a change in the Republican platform has to undergo an intellectually rigorous test. In “A Fundamental Freedom: Why Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarians Should Support Gay Rights,Ó Cato's David Lampo makes the case that recognizing gay rights is consistent with the ideas of individual liberty and small government, and that grassroots Republicans are in favor of civil unions for same-sex partners, even if their leaders are not. Lampo, along with Michael Barone, speaks July 18 at the Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Phone: (202) 842-0200. Web: http://www.cato.org/
