Senator Pushes Bill Mandating Unpaid Leave for Grieving Parents
“Anytime a parent has to bury a child is, in my opinion, the most stressful and excruciating experience a family can go through,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) told the Arizona Republic....
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PETA Sues SeaWorld for Enslaving Killer Whales
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is asking the U.S. District Court in San Diego to grant constitutional rights to killer whales who perform at marine parks. Targeting SeaWorld...
Nullify Now! Tour Reaches Jacksonville, Florida
The Nullify Now! tour sponsored by the Tenth Amendment Center has gained momentum since its inception last year and has effectively brought states rights to the forefront of political discussion amongst...
TSA Stages Highway Searches to Show Its Tennessee Valley Authority
First it was airports. Then it was bus and train stations. Now, under the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) program, even the highways aren’t safe from the...
11th Circuit Upholds Most of Alabama’s Immigration Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Judicial Circuit has upheld almost all of Alabama’s tough immigration law, frustrating the Obama administration and its leftist allies who sought to have...
Texas Students Required to Pledge Allegiance to Mexico
Should American high school students be required to recite the pledge of allegiance? This is a question which has generated controversy over the years, but rarely if ever has the controversy...
Forbes Claims Ron Paul Was Wrong About the Fifth Amendment
Forbes magazine's Richard Miniter claimed Congressman Ron Paul has the Fifth Amendment wrong on Obama's assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, but the example of George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion reveals that...
Will DOJ Tell Church Schools Whom to Hire?
Terrence Jeffreys of CNSNews reports, "In yet another stunning attack on freedom of religion, President Barack Obama's Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to give the federal government the...
California Bans Open Carrying of Handguns
ABC News reports that California's Governor Jerry Brown (left) has just signed a new law "mak[ing] it a misdemeanor to openly carry an exposed and unloaded handgun in public or in a...
Obama’s Death Panel and Charles I’s Star Chamber
President Obama has created a secret death panel to decide which American citizens should be killed without trial by our own military, and he approved a secret legal memorandum from the...
Court to Rule on Georgia’s Ban on Guns in Churches
Tensions are building in Georgia over a controversial new law which would restrict the rights of gun owners, and the judges of the 11th Circuit Court may be weighing precisely how...
High Court Hears Fired Lutheran Teacher’s Church-State Case
What does “separation of church and state” really mean? Many point out that the phrase is not found anywhere in the Constitution. Rather, it was mentioned by Thomas Jefferson, after the...
Ron Paul: Al-Awlaki Killing is “Impeachable”
Talk of an Obama impeachment reentered the political arena this week, this time for the targeted killing of American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki. Texas Congressman and GOP presidential contender Ron...
Awlaki Killing: Does America Need Courts, Juries, or Trials Anymore?
President Obama touted the killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike in Yemen September 30, raising constitutional questions of whether the President has become judge, jury, and executioner for...
Wisconsin Judge: No “Fundamental Right to Produce and Consume Foods”
In a court case sure to go down in history for one of the most bizarre rulings, a Wisconsin judge has held that American citizens do not have a "fundamental right...