
When the Clemson Tigers take on Alabama’s Crimson Tide for the Football Bowl Subdivision national championship tonight, at least one group will be watching for something other than the final score on the field.
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Jan 2016, 10:33 AM PST0

Morton Blackwell, the conservative icon who founded the Leadership Institute in 1979 and is a longtime Republican National Committeeman representing Virginia, has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz for president.
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Jan 2016, 9:04 PM PST0

An email message sent out Friday morning by the campaign of Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio claims the junior senator from Florida “is leading the Billy Graham wing” of evangelical Christians, while Ted Cruz “is leading the Jerry Falwell wing,” and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump “is leading the Jimmy Swaggart wing.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Jan 2016, 5:53 PM PST0

BURLINGTON, Vermont — Donald Trump upstaged President Barack Obama’s anti-gun TV-event on CNN, even though protestors repeatedly interrupted his speech to a capacity crowd of 1,400 enthusiastic supporters here at the Flynn Center.
by Michael Patrick Leahy7 Jan 2016, 9:32 PM PST0

The state of Alabama is suing the Obama administration in federal court to stop the resettlement of refugees in the state, alleging that the federal government is violating the consultation clause of the Refugee Act of 1980.
by Michael Patrick Leahy7 Jan 2016, 6:09 PM PST0

The Breitbart News interview with Franklin Graham comes one day after he launched his 50 state “Decision America 2016” tour on the steps of the State Capitol in Des Moines, Iowa. Graham’s goal is to encourage Christians to participate in the political process this election cycle by voting for candidates who support Biblical values and considering their own run for office.
by Michael Patrick Leahy6 Jan 2016, 1:06 PM PST0

An enthusiastic flag-waving crowd of 2,600 endured freezing 30 degree weather to hear the 63-year old Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, encourage Christians to engage in the political process by voting and running for office in 2016.
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Jan 2016, 4:20 PM PST0

Though the GOP Presidential primary process kicks off with a great deal of media hoopla in February, the four states with contested election events that month might turn out to have little impact on the actual race for delegates to the GOP convention in July.
by Michael Patrick Leahy4 Jan 2016, 4:08 PM PST0

At every turn, it seems, the weak and uncertain leadership of the West is submitting to the strength and evil certainty of radical Islam, of which Winston Churchill warned more than a century ago “no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” History shows that strength attracts followers. The latest example that confirms this maxim is the recent report that the Islamic terrorists at ISIS are actively planning to increase their attacks on innocent civilians in the West, in an attempt to provoke one final, huge decisive battle.
by Michael Patrick Leahy31 Dec 2015, 5:32 AM PST0

If Western Civilization is to survive, it will only be as a consequence of leadership that demonstrates overwhelming power to defeat the unceasing efforts of the Islamists who seek to enslave us all in the modern caliphate first envisioned by Muhammad Ahmad in Sudan more than a century ago. It was the cold steel of Churchill’s charge at Omdurman 117 years ago that brought that first attempt to create a modern caliphate to an end.
by Michael Patrick Leahy28 Dec 2015, 6:56 AM PST0

As the GOP field winnows down, most analysts predict the nomination will come down to a two man race between Trump and Cruz.
by Michael Patrick Leahy23 Dec 2015, 5:45 AM PST0

An exuberant crowd of more than 1,000 supporters greeted GOP presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz at the Rocketown entertainment center in downtown Nashville.
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Dec 2015, 3:26 PM PST0

IRS agent Samuel Garza is free on bail, after Tennessee Circuit Court Judge Joseph Woodruff slashed his bond in half. Garza is charged with two felony counts of sexual battery against a female business owner he was auditing in Fairview, Tennessee. His bond was initially set at $300,000 before being cut to $150,000 last week. He walked free on Friday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy22 Dec 2015, 5:29 AM PST0

A ninth grade World Geography teacher who assigned students near Staunton, Virginia to hand copy the Arabic characters representing the shahada–the Islamic statement of faith–also circulated a Koran to her students while refusing to do the same with the Bible, according to reports from a parent meeting.
by Michael Patrick Leahy21 Dec 2015, 5:50 AM PST0

A Breitbart News investigation reveals that mainstream media outlets incorrectly reported a key detail in the story of the 9th grade World Geography teacher in Virginia who sparked a national controversy over a “calligraphy lesson” that required students to hand copy the Arabic characters that comprise the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith.
by Michael Patrick Leahy19 Dec 2015, 3:47 PM PST0

IRS agent Samuel Garza.arrested in September on two felony charges of sexual battery committed against a female business owner during the course of an audit, was released from the Williamson County Jail late Friday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Dec 2015, 9:32 PM PST0

World Relief, one of five Christian charities among the top nine voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) receiving $1 billion a year in payments from the federal government as part of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement program, is leading a political charge calling on American taxpayers to “care sacrificially for the refugee.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy18 Dec 2015, 4:08 PM PST0

Paul Ryan’s decision to remove critical riders from the Omnibus budget bill that intended to stop the EPA’s radical and statutorily unauthorized new rules that could devastate America’s coal and farming industries is just the most recent version of the GOP white flag. A vote on the Omnibus budget deal is imminent in the House, now that it has passed the companion tax bill.
by Michael Patrick Leahy17 Dec 2015, 6:09 PM PST0

A Government Accountability Office report stating that the EPA broke the law is “a black eye” for the agency, says an expert in Constitutional Law. EPA is in hot water over the promulgation of a controversial water rule that a federal appeals court placed a stay on in October.
by Michael Patrick Leahy16 Dec 2015, 10:34 AM PST0

State Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster), the daughter of a refugee from Yugoslavia who came to the United States in 1952 as a twelve-year-old, wants the Tennessee General Assembly to step up if Governor Bill Haslam fails to launch a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program.
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Dec 2015, 10:00 AM PST0

Conservative icon Richard Viguerie, the direct-mail fundraising pioneer who’s endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz for president, has a message for Donald Trump’s Tea Party supporters.
by Michael Patrick Leahy11 Dec 2015, 10:03 AM PST0

Several Tennessee state legislators appear ready to rebel against the implementation of the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program after hearing testimony from Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons that the Obama administration has failed to comply with the Refugee Act of 1980’s statutory requirement to consult with the state prior to the placement of refugees there.
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Dec 2015, 2:30 PM PST0

GOP presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing his State Refugee Security Act of 2015 (S. 2363), now before the United States Senate for formal consideration.
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Dec 2015, 2:30 PM PST0

The constitutional argument is that the federal government, without the permission of these 12 Wilson-Fish states, has “commandeered” state funds by placing refugees in their states, thereby obligating states to pay Medicaid expenses for the refugees, in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
by Michael Patrick Leahy8 Dec 2015, 6:25 AM PST0

Rep. Diane Black was among the first to criticize the “outrageous statements” made by two lawyers representing the family of Syed Farook, at a bizarre press conference held in California on Friday.
by Michael Patrick Leahy5 Dec 2015, 3:06 PM PST0