The Texas Center for Defense of Life (TCDL) filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Judge Terry Flenniken for failing to protect a minor by knowingly sending her back into the home of her guardian, who lived with a registered sex offender.
Luke Chung, an online database programmer, has added his voice to the many experts who say the ObamaCare federal website, Healthcare.gov, has major flaws and cannot be functional without a complete overhaul. According to CBS News, Chung said about the federal
Much has been observed about the failure of the ObamaCare exchange websites: the website “glitches” Americans have experienced when attempting to sign up, the fact that, within just one week, the system has been shut down for “repairs,” and the
Thurston County, Washington Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor has been formally reprimanded by the Judicial Conduct Commission for his refusal to officiate at same-sex weddings. Tabor gave “philosophical and religious reasons” for his refusal. According to Kirsten Andersen of LifeSiteNews,
Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, has filed a formal canonical lawsuit with the Vatican, asking that the Catholic identity of his alma mater, Georgetown University in Washington D.C., be protected. The novelist, who attended Georgetown, a Jesuit institution, in
The archbishop of Denver and the bishop of Colorado Springs have issued a pastoral letter entitled, “Immigration and Our Nation’s Future.” Stating their letter is not an endorsement of any specific legislation, the bishops nevertheless assert that America needs to
The Catholic bishop of Dallas preached a homily Sunday in Washington D.C. to an assembly that included a majority of the sitting justices of the Supreme Court. Bishop Kevin Farrell’s sermon couched the topic of immigration reform and amnesty in
An artist’s new exhibition has drawn sharp attention to China’s controversial one-child policy. Introduced in 1979, the policy has markedly restructured Chinese society while it has also created dramatic impact on an entire generation that has been raised without brothers
The National Institute of Health (NIH), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has begun to solicit applications for federal grants to study ways to provide “palliative care” to older Americans at points earlier than end-of-life–including during
During his October 3rd radio broadcast, conservative host and author Mark Levin warned his listeners that President Obama is moving beyond the current partial government shutdown and on to the debt ceiling. As he campaigns against Republicans, Obama is creating
The House of Representatives on Saturday voted 400-1 to pass HCR 58 which calls on Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to allow continued religious services on military bases during the government shutdown. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA)
Advocates are urging patients with HIV/AIDS to delay enrolling in health insurance plans on the exchanges, warning that coverage for them and the price of prescription drugs during the early days of open enrollment will be confusing. According to a
Abortion-on-demand advocate Wendy Davis’ announcement that she will be a candidate for Texas governor drew reactions from pro-life organizations that fought her campaign to derail the new Texas legislation that bans abortion past 20 weeks of pregnancy. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president
Amid numerous reports of ObamaCare exchange difficulties, Internet cloud security company Trend Micro has reported that they have already seen spam targeted to words such as “Medicare,” “enrollment,” and “medical insurance.” The company reports that some of the spam variants
The woman who is behind the controls of ObamaCare was unable to convince even one person from Kansas, the state she used to govern, to sign up for it. Though HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is the former governor of Kansas,
As Democrats take up immigration reform again, Justice for Immigrants, the group that is running the well-organized campaign for amnesty for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), will be rooting for many of the same politicians that support
A new report by an Israeli security research institute warns that Al Qaeda is in the process of constructing its main regional Middle East base in Syria, from which it plans to export terrorism and Islamic radicalism to nearby states
Bishop Anba Macarius of the Coptic Orthodox Minya Diocese in Egypt survived an assassination attempt Monday morning when his vehicle came under fire. The bishop was visiting the village of Garees in Abu Qerqas to spend time with the family
In the release of a final rule regarding healthcare benefits for members of Congress and their staff, the Obama administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has indicated that it will get around an amendment that makes it illegal to provide
According to CT Mirror, Connecticut’s ObamaCare exchange, called Access Health CT, suffered some “glitchy” website problems, but managed to enroll its first member just before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. CEO of Access Health CT Kevin Counihan was an in-studio guest on
As more states mull a break with the Common Core standards, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan blamed “ideologues and extremists” for standing in the way of the education reform the new standards represent. Steve Contorno at the Washington Examiner reported
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a lawsuit on September 24 against Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration on behalf of the Little Sisters of the Poor, an international Roman Catholic order of Sisters dedicated to caring for the
Minnesota Senate Democrats Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, along with others from their party, will answer to their constituents and leaders in the medical device industry for voting against the repeal of ObamaCare’s medical device tax in the continuing resolution battle
Violence against Egyptian Christians erupted again on September 29 in the village of Zakaria in the upper province of Minya when a Muslim family accused a Christian man of having an illicit relationship with a Muslim woman. About half of
Leading pro-abortion groups filed a lawsuit Friday that seeks to stop Texas’ new law that bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The law, signed by Gov. Rick Perry (R) in July, was passed in a special session of the
