How Instagram Is Teaching Us About Big Government
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing and social-networking service acquired this year by Facebook, faces a strong public backlash over a newly proposed terms of service agreement that allows your...
View ArticleRick Warren: Religious Freedom Ensures Other Freedoms
Sharkpixs/ZUMAPress/Newscom Pastor Rick Warren stressed the importance of religious liberty to sustaining other basic freedoms during an interview at Georgetown University on February 12. Warren, the...
View ArticleUniting Around the Constitution
Newscom Budget cutters, cultural conservatives, and national defense hawks ought to be able to rally around a common standard. But what is that standard? In order to properly unite our forces, author...
View ArticlePenalizing Religious Belief: No Bed of Roses
Lannis Waters/ZUMA Press/Newscom A Washington state florist is facing a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general because she desires to conduct her business in accord with the principles of her faith....
View ArticleFamily Fact of the Week: Thankful for Religious Freedom on National Day of...
Don Hammond/Design Pics/Newscom Millions of people of faith in America will participate today in the 62nd annual National Day of Prayer. Although the National Day of Prayer was not established by...
View ArticleNSA Spying Stops Terrorism but Should Also Respect Liberties
Keith Alexander, Director, NSA (Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call/Newscom) General Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), testified in an open hearing before the House Permanent...
View ArticleFortnight for Freedom: Religious Liberty and the Obamacare Mandate
Newscom A coalition of religious leaders from a broad spectrum of faith backgrounds gathered in Washington this week to release a letter denouncing an Obamacare health insurance mandate threatening...
View ArticlePelosi: July 4 Is Health Independence Day
As Americans celebrate a long holiday weekend, we should take at least a moment to ponder the idea, advanced recently by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D–CA), that Obamacare “captures the spirit...
View ArticleChurchill on the “Practical Truth” of the Declaration of Independence
Newscom As a statesman, an author, and a friend of the United States, Winston Churchill was regularly called upon to offer his sentiments on the meaning of the Fourth of July. In his remarks over the...
View ArticleConcerned About the Country’s Direction? Join Us at the Values Voter Summit
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decisions on marriage, the movement to uphold America’s core principles heads to the states, where...
View ArticleFamily Fact of the Week: Americans Have Religious Liberty Every Day of the Week
Newscom What days should Americans be able to live out their religious beliefs? Is religious liberty limited to church on Sunday or synagogue on Saturday? Or can deeply held beliefs influence the...
View ArticleMissed Paying One Ticket? Go Directly to Jail
Courtesy of Crissy Brown She was handcuffed and hauled to the police station. She was fingerprinted and photographed. She was interrogated. She was strip-searched, given a jumpsuit, and locked into an...
View ArticleAccounting for Facts While Courting Vietnam
Vietnam’s President Troung Tan Sang in the Oval Office with President Obama. (Photo: YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS/Newscom) Fact: When the United States negotiates trade agreements with countries that oppress...
View ArticleU.S. Embassies Remain Closed: 5 Heritage Must-Reads on Counterterrorism
Newscom Twenty U.S. embassies and consulates remain closed throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Asia this week. The State Department says that “current information suggests that al-Qaida and...
View ArticleIntolerance Burns Out Oregon Bakers
OWEN BREWER/ZUMA Press/Newscom Threats and violent protests forced Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a small bakery located in Gresham, Oregon, to close its doors this weekend. In February, a lesbian couple...
View ArticleCalifornia Bill Targeting Boy Scouts Illustrates Threats to Religious Freedom
Photo credit: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom Legislation “cruising” through the California legislature would strip certain state-level tax exemptions from nonprofit youth groups that...
View ArticleBack to School by the Numbers: Government vs. Parents
Newscom As the summer comes to an end and children put on their backpacks and lace up their sneakers for the new school year, let’s look at what kind of school system they are entering. More Spending:...
View ArticleObamacare Anti-Conscience Mandate Loses in Another Court: Another Win for...
Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Yesterday, yet another district court halted the Obama Administration from forcing its anti-conscience mandate to provide coverage...
View ArticleWhat Is a “Reasonable” “Search” or “Seizure” in the Age of New Technologies?
Newscom The Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from conducting “unreasonable searches and seizures.” However difficult it previously may have been to define a “reasonable” search or seizure,...
View ArticleProtecting Religious Liberty in the Marriage Debate
Newscom Bipartisan legislation was introduced today in the House of Representatives that would prevent the federal government from discriminating against citizens and organizations who believe that...
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