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August 2017

August 04, 2017

Mueller has impaneled a grand jury

Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in conjunction with his investigation of...

August 02, 2017

Unanswered misconceptions about the Health Care plan

The Republican Health Care plan that went down in flames was portrayed in the...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Republican health care reform is dead

Senate Republicans failed to pass a health care bill, failed to repeal Obamacare, and failed...

July 28, 2017

The academic effects of marijuana: A controlled experiment

Marijuana is legal in the Netherlands, with "cannabis cafes" being a fixture of university towns....

July 26, 2017

Using the legislative process for a Health Care Bill

Though the Republican Health Care Bill, as formulated by the Senate leadership, lacks the vote...

July 19, 2017

Republicans again fail to repeal & replace Obamacare

Two more Republican Senators announced that they would oppose the latest attempt to repeal and...

July 14, 2017

OK, try this health care bill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has released yet another health care bill, designed to pick...

July 13, 2017

Oregon to force taxpayers to pay for abortion

Oregon is enacting a law that will require all insurance companies to pay for abortions,...

July 12, 2017

Trinity Lutheran goes back to normal after Supreme Court victory

Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Missouri, just won a landmark case before the Supreme Court. ...

July 12, 2017

A smoking gun?

Donald Trump, Jr., has released the e-mail exchange that led to his meeting with that...

July 11, 2017

Why it was good that we broke away from Britain

Some say that the American revolution was not really necessary. That staying with Great Britain...

July 11, 2017

Russian adoptions and the Donald Trump Jr. meeting

President Trump's son, Donald, Jr., admits that after his father's nomination, he met with a...

July 10, 2017

Jewish school in UK faces closure for not teaching LGBT issues

An orthodox Jewish school for girls in London may be closed down for refusing to...

July 03, 2017

How to criminalize Christianity

The United States has freedom of religion, and to say Christians are "persecuted" here is...

July 03, 2017

Euthanasia for “a completed life”

First euthanasia was supposed to be for people who were terminally ill. Then for those...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Marriage Is a Civil Matter, Not a Church Power

Lutherans particularly cannot "leave the government out of marriage." Their confessions and theology don't let...

June 28, 2017

Murder by text

Seventeen-year-old Michelle Carter had a boyfriend, Conrad Roy, who was 18. Conrad was plagued by...

June 27, 2017

Lutheran church wins Supreme Court case

Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS) of Columbia, Missouri, won its case at the Supreme Court. The...

June 27, 2017

Supreme Court lifts stay on travel ban & will hear the Wedding Cake case

The Supreme Court re-instated President Trump's travel ban, in part, and will hear the case...

June 27, 2017

Paying to upgrade your accommodations in prison

Convicted felons in California can often upgrade their prison cells--for a price. For $100 a...

June 26, 2017

Court throws out most charges against makers of Planned Parenthood videos

Pro-abortion fanatics have been trying to get David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt put in prison for...

June 23, 2017

The Senate’s health care bill

Senate Republicans released their proposed health care bill, which, if it passes, must be reconciled...

June 19, 2017

Trump’s jeopardy

You never want to be the subject of a federal investigation. Even if they can't...

June 16, 2017

There may be adverse aspects to each of our rights

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was one of the Congressman at the baseball field attacked by...

June 14, 2017

Court upholds right of church to fire gay employee

The music director of Holy Family Catholic Church in Chicago announced his engagement to another...

June 09, 2017

Is saying Jesus is the only way to salvation hate speech and discrimination?

Russell Vought is a Wheaton College alumnus who weighed in on the controversy over the...

June 07, 2017

Trump undercuts his travel ban defenders

President Trump's restrictions on travelers from terrorist-supporting countries was thrown out by the courts. So...

June 02, 2017

The ACLU is targeting Catholic hospitals

One in six patients in America today is treated in a Catholic hospital. The numbers...

May 2017

May 31, 2017

Something conservative states and liberal states agree on

Deep blue liberal states and deep red conservative states agree on at least one thing:...

May 30, 2017

Bioethical nightmares

Human embryos have been produced asexually, as with the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. Scientists...