Obamacare’s Liberty-Crushing Mandate in Court

Newscom Three family businesses were in court this week asking federal judges for relief from a coercive Obamacare mandate that forces employers to provide and pay for coverage of abortion-inducing drugs and contraception—regardless of moral or religious objection. The Green family, which runs the arts-and-crafts company Hobby Lobby, was represented by the Becket Fund for […]

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Rumsfeld on Economic Freedom

Concluding The Heritage Foundation’s fifth annual Protect America Month series, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shared his insights on why a free-market system that promotes economic freedom is critical to ensuring America’s prosperity and security. In an interview with Dr. Edwin Feulner, former president of The Heritage Foundation, Rumsfeld offered a compelling defense of […]

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Taxpayers Spend $536,526 to Study Smoking Cessation for LGBT Community

(CNSNews.com) – The National Institutes of Health issued a $536,526 grant to the University of Illinois, Chicago, for a two-year program ending in July to study the smoking cessation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population. “The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the benefits of culturally targeted smoking cessation intervention for […]

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Republicans Don’t Trust IRS to Enforce Obamacare, Protect Confidential Medical Info

(CNSNews.com) – The Internal Revenue Service, under fire for inappropriately targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, cannot be trusted with Americans’ sensitive medical information, Republican lawmakers said Wednesday. Under the Affordable Care Act, the job of enforcing compliance with the law falls to the IRS. “Imagine when the IRS decides that they’re going to actually […]

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Muslim Heinous Acts of Beheading in the West

by Daniel Pipes May 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner The gruesome murder yesterday of a soldier outside London by a Muslim convert, Michael Adebolajo, brings to mind that throat slitting and beheading are Islamically sanctioned forms of execution. Although these occur particularly often in the course of family-related crimes – think, […]

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President Wishes Away Terrorism

Pat Benic/UPI/Newscom Today, President Obama acknowledged the myriad terrorist threats around the world during his remarks at the National Defense University. Yet his description was much rosier than reality: “Today, the core of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on a path to defeat.” That point is debatable by itself, but it more importantly glosses […]

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When Did We Vote to Become Mexico?

By Ann Coulter At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal. But that didn’t make sense because the IRS scandal is a more obvious abuse of power than the White House lying about the murder of four Americans in Libya.  Before I had resolved which scandal was distracting from which, […]

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5 Overlooked Lessons From the AP Subpoena Controversy and Other Leak Investigations

The journalism world has been rightly outraged by the Justice Department dragging the Associated Press (and now a Fox News reporter) into one of its sprawling leak investigations. As we wrote last week, by obtaining the call records of twenty AP phone lines, “the Justice Department has struck a terrible blow against the freedom of the press […]

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IRS Told Pro-Life Group to Swear It Would Not Protest Planned Parenthood

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday that a pro-life group in Iowa was told by an IRS agent that its application would not be approved until the group’s board of directors swore it would not protest Planned Parenthood. “This comes directly from Iowa, one of my constituents attempted to establish 501(c)(3) charity called […]

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