(CNSNews.com) – Some of the most elite and influential news outlets in the United States gave far more coverage to the George Zimmerman murder trial in its first week than they did to the Kermit Gosnell murder trial in its first week, revealing a coverage disparity of 40.6 to 1, or the equivalent of giving […]
In a special weekly address, celebrating the 4th of July, President Barack Obama said that Americans are free to “worship” as they please–which mirrors language in the Iraqi constitution, but contrasts with the First Amendment to our own constitution which denies government any power to prohibit “the free exercise” of religion. Obama’s reference to freedom […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. State Department is planning to build two women’s dormitories for universities in Afghanistan, at a cost of up to $15 million. The State Department posted two solicitations for the construction of women’s dorms for Kabul University and Balkh University, last week. In conjunction with the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) […]
(CNSNews.com) – A top official with Customs and Border Protection admitted at a hearing on Thursday that the government does not track when or whether people who are issued a visa exit the country, which Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) called “the biggest gaping hole we have on our border.” “It’s probably the biggest gaping hole […]
(CNSNews.com) – A petition asking the Obama administration to change the Columbus Day holiday to “Explorers’ Day” has collected more than 1,400 signatures in 24 hours. “The goal of this petition is to expand the coverage of the Columbus Day holiday to include all of the American explorers who have risked their lives to chart […]
Update: Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, without comment on Sunday, refused a request to delay same-sex marriage in California until the U.S. Supreme Court issues a certified copy of its ruling in the case involving Proposition 8. (CNSNews.com) – The rush to same-sex marriage resumes in California, apparently without regard to legal technicalities. The […]
(CNSNews.com) – The president of Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday signed a bill finalizing the closure next July of a U.S. airbase that has been a key hub for troops and supplies moving to and from Afghanistan since shortly after 9/11. One day earlier, visiting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu assured President Almazbek Atambayev that plans to […]
The underlying question before the Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor–which challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act–was: Does the Constitution forbid the U.S. Congress from defining the words “marriage” and “spouse” as they have always been defined in the English language? And that leads unavoidably to a deeper question: Can American law be […]
(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has authorized a three-year study to find out why some HIV-positive homosexual men in Kenya do not seek the free treatment that American taxpayers already are funding. The study, which will cost U.S. taxpayers $228,147, seeks to encourage Kenyan homosexuals, including prostitutes, to avail themselves of the […]
(CNSNews.com) – Seven years after Sunni Islam’s foremost institution severed dialogue with the Vatican over remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, the Cairo-based Al-Azhar wants the new pontiff to open the door to resuming interfaith discourse by declaring Islam to be a peaceful religion. The proposal that Pope Francis make such a public declaration prompted Coptic […]
