Virginia AG: Abortion Clinic Inspectors Don’t Have to Report Statutory Rape

(CNSNews.com) — Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says that state health inspectors are not required to report the statutory rape of girls aged 13 to15 if abortion clinic paperwork does not indicate the abuser was a parent or caretaker. According to Virginia law, anyone who “carnally knows, without the use of force, a child thirteen years […]

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Hailing the First ‘Great’ Transgender TV Show

The London Daily Mail reports Amazon.com now issues a content warning to viewers before they live-stream the second volume of classic “Tom and Jerry” cartoons. Viewers are lectured the cartoons “may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society. Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.” If you […]

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CDC Chief: Ebola ‘Drug Pipeline Is Going to Be Slow, I’m Afraid’

(CNSNews.com) – Dr. Tom Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says “it’s really understandable that people are scared” about Ebola, because it’s a “deadly virus” that moves “very, very fast.” Experimental drugs may help, but — “The drug pipeline is going to be slow, I’m afraid,” Frieden told NBC’s “Meet the […]

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Obama’s Criticism of Israeli Construction is Against American Values

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in an interview which aired Sunday on CBS that the White House’s rebuke of Israeli construction in Jerusalem goes “against American values”. In the interview, which was recorded on Thursday and of which excerpts were quoted by The Associated Press (AP), Netanyahu said he did not accept restrictions on where […]

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States That Voted Against Gay Marriage Now Have It Forced Upon Them

This isn’t OK. The Supreme Court’s decision today to not hear any of the cases on same-sex marriage means, as my colleague Ryan T. Anderson writes, that “lower court rulings that struck down state marriage laws now will go into effect, forcing the redefinition of marriage in [Indiana, Wisconsin, Virginia, Oklahoma and Utah] and potentially […]

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NFL Player Penalized for Prayer

Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah was penalized for praying on the field during Monday’s Chiefs-Patriots game. After making the sixth interception of his career, Abdullah, a Muslim, knelt in practice of the Sajdah, a prayer in which Muslims prostrate themselves in the direction of Mecca. Abdullah’s act of prayer resulted in a 15-yard penalty […]

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Obama: Ferguson Demands Change in ‘How Justice Is Applied…Perceived…Experienced’

With Michael Brown’s parents in attendance at the Congressional Black Caucus Awards Sunday, Pres. Obama declared that America needs to change how justice is perceived. Obama said Attorney General Eric Holder understands the need to both “close the justice gap” and change the experience of justice in light of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown […]

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