Judge Rules Amnesty Executive Order Unconstitutional
A federal district court judge in Pennsylvania has ruled parts of President Barack Obama's executive immigration orders unconstitutional, accusing him of bypassing Congress in granting deportation rel...
Christian and Atheist Bond
PHILADELPHIA — One morning in February 2012, Prof. David Skeel received an email from a stranger named Patrick Arsenault. The message contained a thumbnail photo of the equation for calculating kineti...
Abundance Without Attachment
“CHRISTMAS is at our throats again.” That was the cheery yuletide greeting favored by the late English playwright Noël Coward, commemorating the holiday after which he was named. Less contrarian were...
The CIA and Its Torturers
When the head of the CIA’s torture unit decided to destroy videotapes of his team’s horrific work, he unwittingly set in motion a series of events that led to the release this week of the most massive...
Being Forced to Cover Abortions Is ‘Repulsive Beyond Words’
For 36 years, Jim Garlow didn’t know his first adopted child was the result of a rape. But after his wife Carol lost a six-year battle with cancer last year, their daughter, Janie, went in search of...
CIA Report
The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality. Committee chair Dianne Feinstein appear...
Democrats and Obama
Liberal House Democrats are fighting tooth and nail against President Obama over the fate of an enormous year-end government spending bill. With just hours to go before a scheduled government shutdow...
Government Shutdown and Nancy Pelosi
First of all, it looks like the CRomnibus is in big trouble and that is good news. It seems more likely than not that the bill is going down, which is the best result here. But if the House is not abl...
Army Punishes Chaplain
In a letter sent on December 9, 2014, Liberty Institute demanded that the United States Army revoke an unlawful violation of the religious rights of our client, Chaplain (Captain) Joseph “Joe” Lawhorn...
Abuse and Domestic Violence
Although abuse is significantly under-reported, current crime statistics at least begin to tell the story. The FBI's Uniform Crime Report routinely lists domestic violence as the leading cause of inju...
Is Jesus Everything
“What is grey and furry and has a long bushy tail and beady little eyes?” A long pause in the Sunday school class was finally broken as one child volunteered, “I know the answer is supposed to be Jesu...
Will you still watch 'The Cosby Show'?
(CNN) -- Composer Richard Wagner was an anti-Semite whose music was used, after his death, as Nazi propaganda. He was also,as some say, "one of the most gifted, historically important composers to eve...
