For A Year, GOP Leadership Ignored IRS Targeting Of Tea Party Groups, by Nathaniel Downes, Addicting Info

Now, scandals are nothing new in Washington. From sex to taxes, it is almost impossible not to find some scandal or other from which to try to smear your political opponents. However, one must always be careful when picking the scandal from which to attack. In particular, one should never attack if either tied directly to the scandal, or worse, knew about it months beforehand. When the Republicans cried foul over the IRS scrutiny over conservative non-profits, despite liberal groups being similarly targeted, they claimed surprise and outrage over the IRS’s enforcement of the law. The problem is that by claiming surprise, they also undid their own argument. In truth, this was not a surprise to the Republican leadership at all ...

Teacher's Aid Warned Not to Eat Organic Food in Front of Kids, by Steve Eastman, CleanTV

Most of us think of Hawaii as a kind of paradise.  Well, now there's trouble in paradise for a young educator who was only trying to eat healthy. 24 year-old Carissa Lee O'Connell used to suffer from severe nasal allergies.  Then four months ago her husband, Rick, started preparing raw, natural organic lunches for her to enjoy at work ...

Round the Clock Surveillance: Is This the Price of Living in a ‘Free, Safe’ Society?, by John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute

Immediately following the devastating 9/11 attacks, which destroyed the illusion of invulnerability which had defined American society since the end of the Cold War, many Americans willingly ceded their rights and liberties to government officials who promised them that the feeling of absolute safety could be restored. In the 12 years since, we have been subjected to a series of deceptions, subterfuges and scare tactics by the government, all largely aimed at amassing more power for the federal agencies and extending their control over the populace ...

For millions around the world, The 2nd Chapter of Acts, were one of the most brilliant and talented family trios ever to come out of the Jesus Music Movement, later to be called Contemporary Christian Music. Their tight and intricate harmonies on hits like Easter Song certainly brought much joy to the world. The pioneering group was made up of sisters, Annie Herring and Nelly Greisen, and their brother Matthew Ward, whose ministry was in no small part forged from a personal family tragedy. In 1968 their mother, Elizabeth Ward, died of a brain tumor; and then two years later their father, Walter, died of leukemia leaving Matthew and his youngest sister, Nelly orphaned ...

German Family Denied Asylum, HSLDA Appeals, Home School Legal Defense Association

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the Obama Administration’s denial of asylum granted to the Romeike family. The Romeikes fled Germany in 2008 when they were subjected to criminal prosecution for homeschooling. They were granted asylum in 2010 by Immigration Judge Lawrence O. Burman, but that grant was overturned by the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2012. A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit heard the Romeikes’ appeal on April 23rd in Cincinnati, and issued today’s unanimous decision against the family ...

Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution, by John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute

America will never be a “no drone zone.” That must be acknowledged from the outset. There is too much money to be made on drones, for one, and too many special interest groups — from the defense sector to law enforcement to the so-called “research” groups that are in it for purely “academic” reasons — who have a vested interest in ensuring that drones are here to stay ...

Boston’s Top Cop Warns Against “Police State”, by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis warned against creating a “police state” in the aftermath of the marathon bombings during testimony in front of a congressional hearing today. “We do not, and cannot, live in a protective enclosure because of the actions of extremists who seek to disrupt our way of life,” Davis told lawmakers, adding “I do not endorse actions that move Boston and our nation into a police state mentality, with surveillance cameras attached to every light pole in the city ...

362 Infants Born Alive as Result of Botched Abortions Died in Last Decade, by Matthew Clark, American Center for Law and Justice

Recently, Planned Parenthood was caught advocating post birth abortion — infanticide.  Their lobbyist testified before a state legislature that if a baby was born alive as the result of a botched abortion, Planned Parenthood believed the decision whether to provide that baby struggling for life on the abortion clinic table lifesaving support, “should be between the patient and the health care provider.”  In response to public outrage, Planned Parenthood removed its opposition from a bill that would require abortionists to provide lifesaving care to the newborn baby.  Planned Parenthood says that these “extremely unlikely and highly unusual medical circumstances” just don’t happen. ...

Second Opinion? We're Taking Your Child, by Michael Ramey, ParentalRights.org

One would think having the approval of a doctor and even clearance from the local police would be enough to protect a parent from having their baby taken away over cries of “medical neglect.” In this case, one would be wrong. Anna and Alex Nikolayev of Sacramento lost custody of their 5 month-old son last week when they decided to seek a second opinion before having the baby undergo heart surgery. Though a second doctor found it safe to release the boy into their custody, and though an investigating officer also cleared the family to go home, the child was taken the next day ...

Soul Surfer is Getting Married, by Steve Eastman, Faith Issues

Two years ago moviegoers spent over $44 million to see "Soul Surfer," the inspirational story of Bethany Hamilton, the surfing champ who lost her left arm to a shark attack at the age of 13.  By now most people who have paid the slightest attention to the media know it was Bethany's faith in God that helped her move forward after that.  Now her inspirational story includes wedding plans ...

Obama Administration Surrenders in Abortion Pill Mandate Case, Alliance Defending Freedom

At the government’s own request, a federal appellate court Friday dismissed the Obama administration’s appeal of an order that stopped the president from enforcing his abortion pill mandate against a Bible publisher. The administration’s retreat marks the first total appellate victory on a preliminary injunction in any abortion pill mandate case. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Tyndale House Publishers say the administration is apparently nervous about trying to defend its position that a Bible publisher is not religious enough for a religious exemption to the mandate ...

Sudan Intensifies Arrests, Deportations of Christians, Morning Star News

Sudan has stepped up its targeting of Christians for deportation, with interrogation including threats to bury them alive, sources said. Besides the deportation to South Sudan of the secretary general of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference on April 12th, other Christians have been targeted in the past several weeks for arrest, interrogation and/or deportation. On April 21st, as a South Sudanese church elder was worshiping at a Sunday service in Khartoum, officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) detained him to pump him for information, the elder told Morning Star News ...

Pentagon Backtracks on Evangelization Comments, Investigation Launched, Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom filed a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday for records related to a Pentagon statement issued Tuesday that indicated members of the military could be subject to court martial for “religious proselytization.” The Department of Defense spokesperson who made the comments backtracked in a new statement Thursday that explained, “Service members can share their faith (evangelize), but must not force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs (proselytization) ...