Members of a polygamous marriage in Utah say they are no longer fearful of arrest now that a judge has struck down a major portion of the state’s anti-polygamy law, declaring it unconstitutional. As AFP reports, Joe Darger and his
In a watershed moment for gay rights, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will set into motion new measures that will expand same-sex marriage privileges in all federal courtrooms. The new policies aim to eliminate legal distinctions between traditional marriages and
Philip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t one of those actors whose political identities overshadow their talent. That’s a place where Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, John Cusack, Sean Penn and Barbra Streisand often dwell. Most movie goers had no idea how Hoffman, who
California can ban offering religious-viewpoint therapy to people who seek to deal with unwanted same-sex attractions, a federal appeals court ruled late last year in a matter that may now go to the Supreme Court. Christianity and the orthodox religious
The Israeli and Palestinian media recently reported the bodies of dozens of Palestinians buried in Israel throughout the decades of anti-Israeli terrorism had been exhumed and transferred to the Palestinian Authority. The festive–if overloud–ritual that the Palestinian establishment carried out
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A federal judge was set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether Virginia’s ban on gay marriage should be struck down, which is the position the state’s newly elected Democratic attorney general has endorsed in a move
Charles and David Koch raised eyebrows in D.C. last week with an aggressive push back of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after the Nevada Democrat delivered the kind of bare-knuckle attack on the billionaire brothers that has become commonplace by top
MILAN (AP) — The judge who announced the guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for murder is facing allegations of impropriety that could result in disciplinary proceedings. Defense lawyers for Sollecito, Knox’s co-defendant, said Monday
Their 2008 convictions have been upheld on appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up the case. So five men convicted of illegally routing millions of dollars to Hamas through a Dallas-based charity are trying the only ploy
Democrat pundit Bob Shrum made a point that was both useful and incendiary on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday morning, when he likened the Republicans’ new immigration principles to “apartheid.” Shrum’s point was that granting millions of illegal aliens a kind
On his nightly radio show the evening of the State of the Union address, conservative host Mark Levin, author of The Liberty Amendments, instructed the House of Representatives on how to confront President Obama’s declaration that he would be using
James Madison had it exactly right. Referring to infringements on our freedoms, the Father of the Bill of Rights once wrote that such encroachments were more often “gradual and silent” than “violent and sudden.” That’s exactly what we’re seeing with
DENVER (AP) — Using evidence obtained under the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program would violate a terror suspect’s constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure, the suspect argued Wednesday in a court document filed with help from the American
On Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker (R) of Wisconsin urged his state’s school superintendent to revoke the teachers’ license of Andrew Harris, a middle school teacher who was found to have viewed pornography and other inappropriate sexual material at the school.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut physical therapist has filed a sex discrimination complaint against the West Hartford senior living center where she works, saying she is being illegally denied health benefits for her wife. Kerry Considine, 36, of Griswold
Wendy Davis, who became a national figure fighting a law which would limit abortion to 20 weeks and impose additional regulations on abortion providers, said in an interview Wednesday “we all want it to be rare.” During an interview with
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Supreme Court on Monday denied a law license to a disgraced former journalist who was caught fabricating dozens of stories for major national magazines. The unanimous seven-judge court ruled that Stephen Glass had insufficiently
In response to Obama’s Imperial Presidency: Just what America really needed: a fusion of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon. You know, I hate to sound cynical, but I don’t see how even a Supreme Court smackdown over NLRB appointments is
President Obama was once a critic of unchecked presidential power but since taking office he has warmed up to the idea. Now, with the appointment of John Podesta, many believe he is poised to go farther than he already has
Bruce Abramski is a former police officer in Virginia who purchased a gun for his uncle in Pennsylvania. His uncle is law-abiding and could have gotten the gun himself, but Abramski made the purchase to use a policeman’s price discount.
January 16 was Religious Freedom Day. Despite the fact that religious liberty is the fundamental right that led to the permanent colonizing of America for people looking for a new country to live out their faiths, most Americans did not
On January 22, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Abramski v. United States, a case focused on whether a lawful gun buyer may legally purchase a gun he plans to sell in the future to another lawful gun buyer. Bruce James
An illegal alien from Mexico has been executed in the State of Texas after he committed the heinous murder of a Houston, Texas, police officer. The slain officer was a Desert Storm veteran, and his wife was pregnant at the
This is an update to our Jan. 3 report that Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an emergency injunction against the Obama administration, ordering that it could not enforce Obamacare’s abortion pill mandate against a Catholic nuns’ charity until the Supreme Court decided
Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up Judicial Watch’s challenge to the Obama administration’s keeping the post-mortem images of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea secret. This is a decision that not only undermines the public’s
