Washington Post editor Melinda Henneberger on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews last night made this startling statement ‘defending’ the Catholic Church: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment but that is what they did and I don’t think we have to choose here.” Here’s a transcript of [...]

                                                     (Image via Wikipedia) This is a story that continues to escalate and shows no sign of going away anytime soon. Here’s a link to my first article on the confrontation between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church over a new requirement to provide for contraceptives and after-morning abortive pills in their health-care coverage [...]

                                  (Image via Wikipedia) I don’t know if you have been following events in the Middle east lately or not but the ‘war of words’ has been heating up in the last week or so in regard to Israel and Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Last week US Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta said that he [...]

     ( Getty Images via @daylife) Texas Gov. Rick Perry took time out from his busy presidential campaign in South Carolina to attend a prayer event. While there, without any fanfare or introduction he took the stage at the large prayer gathering called "The Response" in Greenville, S.C. and prayed for President Obama and his [...]

                       (Image by OZinOH via Flickr) It is very rare indeed for an unanimous decision to be handed down by the Supreme Court of the United States. However in this key case on religious freedom that is exactly what has happened. The SCOTUS justices ruled that the government has no right to interfere with the [...]

      (Getty Images via @daylife) The National Defense Authorization Act has passed and has been sent to the President for his signature. The act is intended to protect America from terrorists. Even from American citizens who join in and support terrorist groups like al Qaeda and the Taliban in their fight against the USA. I [...]

             (Image via Wikipedia) The U.S. government shut down the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on November 18 due to lack of funding. The USCIRF was the government agency that monitored religious freedom in countries around the world. According to reports, the allocation of funding for the commission could not get out of [...]