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Law and Government
Smoking gun: IRS used Tea Party donor lists to target audits
So it wasn’t a coincidence. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch reports having obtained IRS documents that prove that the tax agency used…
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Education
Interview with author Heidi Kingstone: A women’s perspective of life in Afghanistan
On July 8, Afghanistan’s first female nominee for the country’s supreme court, Anisa Rassouli, failed to win enough votes in…
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Economy
HUD’s ‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing’ Rule is not about desegregation
Failure to meet a racial quota does not constitute segregation. That basic fact has eluded the federal Department of Housing and Urban…
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Economy
EEOC outlaws sexual orientation discrimination, usurps legislative power
When Congress declines to pass a law that would expand an agency’s powers, the agency will sometimes respond by making…
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Law and Government
Dem measure would eliminate words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ from federal law
Right on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision to confer the “right” to gay to marry, Democrats in Washington,…
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Campaign against religious freedom: Orwellian? Demonic? Both?
A "secular Inquisition" takes up arms.
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Law and Government
This could be the next big SCOTUS gay rights case
A Christian legal firm will fight in court Tuesday for a Christian baker in a case that could be the next big Supreme…
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Media
What do July 4, the American flag, and the Bible have in common?
As our nation prepares to celebrate 239 years of independence from a former world superpower 33% of Americans between the…
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Unyielding
Legal scholars: NYC action against Donald Trump violates his First Amendment rights
Civil liberty advocates are jumping all over New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s order to “review” all of Donald…
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Economy
Supreme Court disparate-impact ruling creates confusion and uncertainty
The Supreme Court’s June 25 decision in Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project creates confusion…
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Law and Government
Supreme Court authorizes unaccountable gerrymanders
If you are going to have gerrymandering of Congressional districts, it might as well be done by a state legislature,…
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Libs’ obscene ‘love song’ to wounded warrior who dares to oppose gay marriage
Liberals have long imagined themselves (emphasis on imagined) to be exemplars of tolerance, compassion, and intelligence. As of last Friday, they added another…
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Texas AG: State officials can refuse marriage licenses to gay couples on religious grounds
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told state officials Sunday that they can refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses or otherwise refuse to…
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Law and Government
SCOTUS rules it constitutional to use controversial sedative in executions
The Supreme Court giveth, and the Supreme Court taketh away. Although it paled in comparison to both of the high court’s most recent…
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Law and Government
Bobby Jindal: ‘I’m tired of hyphenated Americans’
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is in Iowa this week making three town hall appearances across the state. The 2016 presidential hopeful has…
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Law and Government
Video: First robot wedding takes place in Japan
“Do you take this more-or-less female automaton to be your lawfully wedded wife?” “I do.” “And do you take this more-or-less…
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ACLU: We can no longer in good conscience protect religious freedom
The question has been raised in this space before, most notably in a story last March about a Muslim barber who…
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Southern Baptists vow they will defy same-sex marriage laws
The Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution promising not to recognize or adhere to any legal redefinition of marriage Tuesday, in…
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Law and Government
Other shoe drops: SCOTUS rules 5-4 to overturn gay marriage ban nationwide
Hey, don’t look at me, Chief Justice John Roberts is probably thinking right now. Roberts authored the dissenting view in…
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Education
Obama administration pressures universities to adopt unconstitutional speech codes
Under the Obama administration, the Education Department has pressured universities and the public schools to restrict speech, including off campus…
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Politics
Clergy members unite: We don’t have to obey Supreme Court on gay marriage
The Supreme Court is expected to announce a ruling on state gay marriage bans this month that could, depending on…
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Law and Government
Alabama Republicans kill effort to scrap marriage licenses ahead of SCOTUS ruling
An Alabama bill designed to outmaneuver a possible Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage by scrapping marriage licenses died quickly…
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Unyielding
GOP lawmakers considering extending Obamacare subsidies in event SCOTUS upholds challenge to law
It is no secret that Republicans in Congress have fallen short of the mandate American voters gave them at the polls…
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Law and Government
Woman in new TV ad claiming ACA saved life bought private plan year before O’care started (Video)
Knowing that his signature legislative “achievement” and his entire legacy hangs in the balance, Barack Obama expressed confidence yesterday that…
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Law and Government
SCOTUS vindicates right to make crazy-sounding threats on the internet
The Supreme Court Monday ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania man who was convicted in federal court for statements he made on Facebook, holding…
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Unyielding
Poll: Majority of Americans want SCOTUS to make gay marriage a Constitutional right
A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that 56% of American voters would support a Supreme Court decision to make gay marriage a Constitutional right while only…
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FAA endangers public safety through illegal racial ‘diversity’ obsession
The Federal Aviation Administration is endangering public safety by getting rid of key merit-based hiring criteria for air traffic controllers…
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Law and Government
Brown v. Nucor Corp. decision flouts rules on class actions, evidence, and appeals
A May 11 decision by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals showed contempt for binding Supreme Court precedent, defied…
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