Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) lambasted former Florida governor Jeb Bush today over his remark last week that it was an “act of love” for immigrants to illegally cross the border into the United States. “Comments like Jeb Bush’s and other Republicans, what they’re doing is they’re pandering to a certain group of people,” Labrador said […]
Elaine Huguenin. (Photo courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom) Today, the Supreme Court declined to review Elane Photography v. Willock—the famous case involving a photographer who politely declined to tell the story of a same-sex commitment ceremony. While neither affirming nor rejecting the lower court’s ruling, the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari means a New Mexico […]
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich blasted the pressure that forced Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich to resign last week as an example of the “new facism.” Eich had donated $1,000 in support of California’s Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman, in 2008. “If you’re a young faculty member in a […]
Elaine Huguenin. (Photo courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom) They were once high principles in the pursuit of e pluribus unum. Now equality, diversity, and tolerance are used to destroy, compel and silence. This week’s purge of a tech company CEO who privately expressed a contrary viewpoint on marriage is just the latest example of […]
Benjamin Myers Photography Is opposition to same-sex marriage at all like opposition to interracial marriage? One refrain in debates over marriage policy is that laws designating marriage as exclusively the union of male and female are today’s equivalent of bans on interracial marriage. Some further argue that protecting the freedom to speak and act publicly […]
Pro-regime soldiers march in Kessab, Syria. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/Newscom The “Save Kessab” campaign on Twitter and other social media has drawn international attention to the news that rebels affiliated with al-Qaeda crossed the Turkish border and seized control of Kessab, a predominantly Christian Armenian town in northwestern Syria. More than 600 families have fled the […]
For two nights running, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly criticized efforts by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to impede screenings –on university campuses and elsewhere – of a film about “honor violence” against Muslim women. Kelly last night questioned CAIR Chicago representative Agnieszka Karoluk on “The Kelly File” about the group’s opposition to “Honor […]
Filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney have been speaking out against media and Hollywood bias in efforts to fund their new movie project, Gosnell. McAleer and McElhinney, along with journalist Magdalena Segieda, launched a crowd-sourcing campaign through Indiegogo to produce Gosnell, which Hollywood Reporter said, “unlike FrackNation and other movies McAleer has produced, will be […]
AFL-CIO official Tefere Gebre exhorts fellow protesters. Photo: Alicia Cohn/The Foundry About 30 protesters, chanting “You can’t survive on $7.25” and “Poverty wages have got to go,” marched today in support of a higher minimum wage outside The Heritage Foundation. AFL-CIO spokesmen at the lunchtime protest said the labor organization targeted Heritage’s Capitol Hill headquarters […]
Dignity hasn’t been the hallmark of the Obama administration’s push to ignite interest in Obamacare in recent months. Obama did an awkward interview with comedian Zach Galifianakis earlier this month. And he even met with N’Sync’s Lance Bass – an incident that The Foundry’s Amy Payne summed up succinctly with this headline: “The White House Jumped […]
