Are the Mega-Rich Really Taxed Less Than Secretaries?
09.23.11
By Brittany Smith, World Magazine President Barack Obama makes it sound as if there are millionaires all over America paying taxes at lower rates than their secretaries. “Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,” the president said...
Mandated Funding of Abortion Drugs
By David E. Smith   |   08.03.11
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a new and onerous mandate which will force all health insurance policies to pay for free contraception without co-pays or co-insurance, including every “birth control” drug or device approved...
FRC Praises House of Representatives for Affirming Defense of Marriage Act
07.08.11
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Family Research Council (FRC) praised the U.S. House of Representatives today for overwhelmingly approving U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx’s (R-NC) amendment to the 2012 defense appropriations bill that would prohibit using Pentagon funds in contradiction of the Defense...
Who Will Be in Charge of Your Health Care?
06.06.11
Written By Dr. Mark G. Neerhof The battle in Washington will determine if it is you – or bureaucrats In a chapter titled “Who, Whom?” from his classic book “The Road to Serfdom,” F. A. Hayek warned of the universal...
Veterans Affairs Attempts to Censor Memorial Day Prayer in Texas
By David E. Smith   |   06.02.11
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a Christian pastor can pray in the name of Jesus at a Memorial Day ceremony. As a result of the judge’s decision, Pastor Scott Rainey did just that Monday at a Memorial...
President Obama’s Middle East, North Africa, US Policy, Part 1
By   |   05.29.11
What does his eloquent prose really mean to us? To the man who captured the hearts of over 53%i of Americans, a man of both precedence and outward candor, and a man who overwhelmingly won the most esteemed office...
Why No Religious Liberty Protections for Service Members, Who Defend Our Liberties?
05.23.11
Official providers of chaplains to U.S. military voice strong concerns over long-neglected conscience protections if DADT is torn down. WASHINGTON – Twenty-one religious agencies providing chaplains to the U.S. military sent a joint letter to the military’s chiefs of chaplains...
Contact Durbin & Kirk about the Parental Rights Resolution
By David E. Smith   |   05.19.11
To date, thirty-seven United States Senators have signed onto Senate Resolution 99, the Senate resolution opposing ratification of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This globalist treaty would violate U.S. sovereignty and diminish God-given parental...
U.S. House Passes No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act How did Illinois’ Congressional Delegation Vote?
05.05.11
Yesterday, the U.S. House took up H.R. 3, the No Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Act, which seeks to end the health care loopholes, not covered by the Hyde Amendment, that allow for taxpayer money to be used for abortion services...
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
By David E. Smith   |   05.02.11
The U.S. House of Representatives will begin voting this week on HR 3, “The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.” HR 3 will prevent the use of federal taxpayer funds to pay for elective abortion. If HR 3 does not...
A Warning of Intimidations to Come
04.26.11
From AlbertMoehler.com The defense of the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA] got a little more complicated yesterday as the law firm that the House of Representatives had hired to defend the law withdrew from the case. As The New York...
Planned Parenthood Funding Battle Falls Short in the U.S. Senate
By David E. Smith   |   04.15.11
During the recent showdown in Washington about the federal government’s budget, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), successfully negotiated a vote on the “Pence Amendment” in the U.S. Senate. The U.S. House passed the Pence Amendment by a vote of...
Federal Government Loves Homosexuality
By Laurie Higgins   |   03.14.11
Some may remember the scene from the film Moonstruck in which Cher slaps Nicholas Cage upside the head and yells “Snap out of it.” Somebody better slap the conservative community upside its collective head before the federal government spends all...
IFI Update: U.S. Senate Votes Against House Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood
By David E. Smith   |   03.12.11
In February, the U.S. House passed an amendment to a budget appropriations bill that would strip Planned Parenthood — the nation’s largest abortion provider — of all federal (taxpayer) funds. The vote was passed by a vote of 240-185. The...
U.S. House Leadership: Congress Will Defend Federal DOMA
By David E. Smith   |   03.05.11
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has announced that the U.S. House will take steps to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) law in court after the Obama Administration recently announced it would no longer do so. Speaker Boehner...
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