The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to weigh in on a case involving prayer during Greece, N.Y., town meetings.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Greece officials violated the constitution by opening meetings over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.
The appeals court said the town should have made more of an effort to invite people from other faiths.
Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United, applauded the ruling.
"A town council meeting isn't a church service,...
A federal court struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Tuesday.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the law violated a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is able to survive outside of the womb.
A fetus is generally considered "viable" at 24 weeks. Nine other states have bans on abortions starting at 20 weeks, and some even earlier.
Supporters of the ban say the law was meant to protect the mother's health and prevent fetuses from feeling pain.
And...
The Associated Press continues to lash out against the government's secret subpoena of reporters' phone records.
AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt says what the Justice Department did was unconstitutional.
"It was sweeping and broad and beyond what they needed to do," Pruitt charged.
He said sources are now much less willing to talk to AP journalists, adding that it has already had an effect on newsgathering.
"If they restrict that apparatus ... the people of the...
A new Gallup Poll shows that Americans believe the government's handling of the attack in Benghazi last September 11 deserves further investigation, as do the revelations of the IRS singling out religious and conservative groups for scrutiny.
Seventy-four percent of those surveyed agree that the issues raised with the IRS treatment of conservatives need to be investigated, while 69 percent believe there should be further investigation of Benghazi.
Majorities of Republicans, Democrats and Independents all agree on examination of...
By Reps. Fred Upton and Dave Camp
Millions of Americans now find themselves in the midst of a massive botched experiment called Obamacare. Nearly every poll-tested health care commitment is evaporating into thin air, leaving us with higher costs and headaches of uncertainty.
Unfortunately, this was both predicted and avoidable. Obamacare was premised on an outmoded, top-down approach to health care - a 40 year-old liberal aspiration, enabled...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder himself is on the hot seat for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press.
Holder faces tough questions Wednesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
"Members of the committee will ask pointed questions about the Justice Department's decision to obtain two months' worth of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press," committee chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said. "Congress and the American people expect answers and...
A report by the IRS's own watchdog shows senior IRS officials, including the acting commissioner, knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, making it clear that efforts went well beyond the branch initially blamed.
Committees from both the House and Senate vowed to investigate.
"When you use the IRS in this fashion, you're basically limiting free speech and that's not good for any of us," said Cecil Cavanaugh of the Tea Party of Louisiana.
Complaints of harassment by conservative groups...
The Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups went beyond those with Tea Party or patriot in their names.
The agency has admitted it also targeted groups that express concern about taxes, government spending, and debt -- even several groups that were lobbying to "make America a better place to live."
Republican lawmakers took to the airwaves over the weekend, slamming the IRS and demanding a full investigation.
"It is absolutely chilling that the IRS was singling out...
Three witnesses from the State Department told a House panel not enough was done to prevent the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"None of us should ever again experience what we went through in Tripoli and Benghazi," Gregory Hicks, the former deputy of mission in Libya, told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday.
"I got the ambassador on the other end, and he...
Saeed Abedini, an American pastor imprisoned for his faith in Iran, has been released from solitary confinement and returned to the general population of Evin Prison.
Pastor Saeed spent more than a week in what's described as a "small dark hole."
"This is a critical development and does raise hope after a very discouraging week," Jordan Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, wrote.
Saeed's wife, Nagmeh Abedini, called his release the "direct result of the multitudes praying."...
On a cold December night in 1975, a 17-year-old girl sobbed on the bedroom floor of a neighbor’s house. Her own home had just burned to the ground, destroying everything she had. But that wasn’t the only weight she carried that night. She had just discovered that she was a few weeks pregnant with her first child. In the dark, alone and terrified, she decided to find a way to Kalamazoo, Mich., 40 miles away, to “take care of her situation.”
That young girl was my mother, and if she had gone to Kalamazoo that night, you wouldn’t be reading this today. I would have been aborted.
Recently, after...
The House Republican leadership has scheduled a floor vote next week on a measure that would repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law that even the president now affectionately refers to as Obamacare.
The Republican-controlled House has voted more than 30 times to repeal all or parts of the law since it was passed. But many GOP members, especially freshmen, were pushing the leadership to get a vote on the record in 2013, reports Politico.
According to Politico, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of...
A House investigation of last year's Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is getting underway Wednesday.
House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up what really happened during the attack on the diplomatic mission that left U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
Currently, Republicans on five House committees are holding inquiries on the matter. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., believes the hearings will be as devastating a...
President Obama's inability to work with Republicans in Congress continues to be an issue in his second term in office, bringing up questions of his leadership.
Regent University professor Charles Dunn, author of the Book Seven Laws of Presidential Leadership, believes a president's leadership ability should be judged on history, rhetoric, theory, culture, morality, politics, and management.
"He gets a failing grade for presidential leadership," Dunn said of Obama, "Especially as related to the Congress."
President Obama is embarking on a multi-city tour to assure Americans he's still focused on the economy, while trying to pass sweeping gun control and immigration legislation.
This latest effort comes as a new poll shows that many Americans are pessimistic about the country's economic recovery and the president's ability to handle it.
Only one in four Americans expect his or her financial situation to improve over the next year, according to the latest AP-GFK poll.
The public's negative outlook is affecting...
MODI'IN, Israel -- The trauma from the Boston Marathon bombing will stay with America for a long time. Israelis can identify.
The frightening images from the bombing in Boston went global in a matter of hours. For many Israelis, it brought back memories of their own experiences with terrorism.
Take a walk around Jerusalem and you'll see memorials marking the many terror attacks that took place during the period known as the second intifada.
From September 2000 through the end of 2004, nearly 1,000 Israelis died in suicide bombings and other terror attacks, and thousands more were wounded.
A stone marker commemorates eight Israelis, including three 18-year-olds,...
The Pentagon says soldiers can be prosecuted for sharing their faith.
The Defense Department released the statement to Fox news, which reads, "Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense" and punishments can include court-martial.
This comes after Pentagon officials met with Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, who said even the presence of a Bible on a desk can amount to proselytizing.
He added that even a Christian bumper sticker on an officer's car or a Bible on a desk...
A new poll by the National Right to Life Committee shows that more than half of all Americans, 55 percent, don't know that Planned Parenthood does abortions or that it's the biggest abortion provider in the country.
"The American people have been duped into thinking that Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a mainstream healthcare provider," Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, told Life News.
Tobias added that in reality, the organization performs 27 percent of all abortions in the United States annually...
A new Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that 42 percent of Americans do not know that the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as "Obamacare," is the law of the land.
Twelve percent believe the law has been repealed by Congress and another 7 percent think it's been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The remaining 23 percent say they don't know enough to say what the status of the law is.
The Kaiser poll shows greater awareness than indicated by last winter's Enroll America study. Enroll found that almost...
Some U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency officials say they've been threatened by the Obama administration for being whistleblowers in the Benghazi investigation.
Fox News reports that at least four government employees are seeking legal counsel.
This comes as they preparing to give Congress information about the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
One attorney told Fox News, "It's frightening,...
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