At least 17 people are now reported dead after Islamist rebels seized a Catholic cathedral compound that was housing between 4,000 and 6,000 civilians who had been driven from their homes by the fighting in the Central African Republic. According
New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino announced Tuesday in Albany that he will seek to form a Stop Common Core ballot line in his campaign to unseat Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). The current Westchester County executive, who has made
The Cathedral of Saint-Joseph in Bambari in the Central African Republic is surrounded by the Islamist rebels of Seleka, says the local bishop who is launching an appeal to the Fides Agency. More than 12,000 civilians who have been driven
The New Jersey state Senate will vote Thursday on a bill that establishes a task force to study the Common Core standards, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and the use of student test scores
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case, Democrat lawmakers are hoping to draw Republicans into a fight about birth control by introducing legislation that would counter the high court’s ruling that the health law’s
On Monday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) responded on Twitter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s criticism of Jindal’s decision to remove his state from the Common Core standards and the PARCC multi-state test consortium. During his press conference, in
In a press conference Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said he was launching, without the approval of the U.S. Congress, the Excellent Educators for All Initiative, an endeavor that purports to assist states and school districts with support
Though North Carolina House and Senate negotiators say they have reached an agreement on a bill to repeal the Common Core standards in their state, the measure could replace Common Core with parts of the same controversial standards, wral.com says.
Where states are failing to repeal the controversial Common Core standards, many parents have decided to take matters into their own hands and petition their local school districts to drop the nationalized standards and replace them with others of their
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that restricted protesters to a 35-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics, ruling that the law violates the First Amendment rights of protesters. Gov. Deval Patrick (D) and state
Religious schools and nonprofits that are outside the scope of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case are preparing for what Politico calls a “Hobby Lobby repeat,” by readying requests for the high court to hear their
The left-wing online publication Vox finds the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Hobby Lobby case to be part of a “deeper trend” in a nation that has made an “unprecedented” turn to a pro-life stance. Writing at Vox, Sarah
China’s one-child policy, instituted in 1979, has made it the most gender-imbalanced country in the world, with 117.78 boys for every 100 girls. Since the Chinese culture traditionally favors males, massive numbers of female babies have been aborted. While the
While Democrats and the abortion industry would have women believe the most important reason to have a job is to get birth control for free, the real “war on women” is the fact that a record number of them were
A Rasmussen poll finds that voters approve of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision by a 10-point margin. Results of the survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters indicate that 49 percent of those polled agree that business owners should
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, the “war on women” meme is back in full force. The abortion industry and the political left are actively distorting the ruling on social media as a way to
The chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration has called upon the Obama administration to halt any plans to send back unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors who have been flooding across the U.S. border. “This is a very vulnerable population
Local school districts in Wisconsin are opting out of the onerous school lunch guidelines that have been pushed largely by First Lady Michelle Obama as part of her campaign to fight obesity, choosing instead to make their own guidelines about
The Louisiana state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) voted Tuesday 6-3 to hire outside lawyers to pursue a lawsuit against Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) for removing his state from its Common Core test consortium. The decision once again
Planned Parenthood claims its business is “women’s healthcare,” but its recent award certificate to a Colorado abortion clinic for “exceeding abortion visits [in the] first half of FY12 compared to the first half of FY13,” affirms that its most valued
As Breitbart News reported Monday, on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision was released in the case of Hobby Lobby, the Eleventh Federal Circuit Appeals Court issued an injunction providing EWTN Global Catholic Network with a reprieve from
While Democrats attempt to use the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision as a political weapon against Republicans, the fact is women can purchase birth control for as little as $3.77 per month. Writing at his blog called the Self-Pay
Citing the new U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Hobby Lobby case, the Eleventh Federal Circuit Appeals Court issued an injunction Monday providing the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN Global Catholic Network) with a reprieve from enforcement of the ObamaCare HHS
The national pro-life community in the United States is celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Obama administration’s HHS Preventive Service abortion pill mandate as a victory for religious freedom and for women’s rights. As Breitbart News’s
A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen dramatically, reaching record lows for Congress (7 percent), the Supreme Court (30 percent), and a six-year low for the presidency (29 percent). Survey
