Analysis: Top 5 Reasons Common Core Has Been a Disaster
12.05.14
Implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative has not gone well, supporters and critics alike now agree. Understanding why the education reform has been so rocky could aid future policy initiatives.
Time for a Governor to Stand up to Judicial Tyranny
By   |   11.29.14
Any ruling from any federal court that imposes domestic policy on a state is by its very nature unconstitutional, and no governor has any obligation to obey it.
Two Views on Danger of ‘Net Neutrality’
By   |   11.17.14
Many people and organizations are concerned about so-called net neutrality and its possible effects on free speech, but OneNewsNow talked to one person who is concerned for another reason: the free market. If this is a free speech issue, says...
Terrorist Collaborator Says Pot Made Him Do It
By   |   11.01.14
As the American people prepare to vote on marijuana ballot measures in three states and the District of Columbia, measures which would make the mind-altering substance more freely available, more bad news keeps coming for the well-funded pothead lobby. In...
Criminalizing Dissent Via Lawfare
By Robert Knight   |   10.27.14
The heavy hand of misused government power is getting heavier by the day. Given the Obama Administration’s vast abuses of executive power, it’s not surprising that lesser lights are following the Chief Executive’s example and waging “lawfare” on their opponents....
The Vindication of Antonin Scalia
By   |   10.10.14
A giant milestone in the moral revolution passed this week when the U.S. Supreme Court turned down every single appeal from several states on the issue of same-sex marriage. This decision not to take at least one case under consideration stunned both sides in the same-sex marriage battle...
SCOTUS Refuses to Take Up Marriage Cases 
By David E. Smith   |   10.06.14
Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decided that it would not hear any of the marriage redefinition cases currently before it, including cases from Indiana, Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia and Wisconsin. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins...
DC Audit:  Taxpayers Paying for Abortions   
By David E. Smith   |   10.02.14
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a report revealing that 1,036 plans in Obamacare (also known as the Affordable Care Act) health insurance exchanges are paying for elective abortions.  In other words, U.S. taxpayers are paying for surgical and...
‘Not Islamic’?
09.23.14
President Barack Obama declared in his recent address to the nation that “ISIL is not Islamic.” But how does he know? On what basis did the president of the United States declare that a group of Muslims that calls itself the “Islamic State” is “not Islamic?”
Our New National Security Policy—Never Let an ISIS Go to Waste
By   |   09.18.14
Boy, turn your head for one minute and suddenly everybody is a war hawk! Wasn’t our government in the full-time occupation of blaming Bush for his bloodthirsty colonialism..? All of a sudden, Senator Dianne Feinstein (Chairman of the Senate Intelligence...
Inseparable: The Declaration and the Constitution
08.19.14
What was that phrase the founders used to describe the source of our liberty and our nation’s political foundation? “The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.”
Liberals Use Hamas’ Tactics
By Rev. Thorin Anderson   |   08.08.14
The vicious character of Hamas is finally becoming apparent to the world as we all witness them using women and children as shields for their weapons.  This same evil tactic was seen in the Iran-Iraq war and Golda Meir noted...
New Federal Legislation to Protect Religious Freedom
By David E. Smith   |   08.06.14
U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) and U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) recently introduced the “Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act,” S. 624 in the U.S. Senate and H.R. 5285 in the U.S. House.  This legislation will protect child welfare providers such...
08.05.14
Since the birth of our special needs daughter Bella more than six years ago, my wife Karen and I have become vocal advocates for the rights of the disabled. That is why we have been so opposed to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities since it first came up in 2012.
Warning Goes Forth, Again, Over Ratifying UN Treaty
By   |   07.30.14
A U.S. Senate panel has advanced to the full senate a treaty that could pose a danger to parents and to pre-born babies.  After a contentious hearing this week, the Judiciary Committee advanced the United Nations Convention on the Rights...
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