Brian Ivie’s documentary The Drop Box is an emotional balancing act: on one side is the heartbreaking fact that millions of children are abandoned at birth around the world every year. On the other side is the triumphant story of The Drop Box’s Pastor Lee Jong-rak, pastor of Jusarang (God’s Love) Community Church in Seoul, South Korea. Pastor Lee’s family…
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On Monday, March 2, 2015, the City of Dallas, Texas—the nation’s ninth largest city—sued Liberty Institute client Congregation Toras Chaim, a small Orthodox Jewish community of families that meets in a private home for prayer, worship, and religious study. The lawsuit by the City comes on the heels of Congregation Toras Chaim’s winning a lawsuit filed by a disgruntled neighbor…
If Hillary Clinton really wanted the public to see her emails, she’d be showing them instead of evading the question, and her “latest public relations trick” should be viewed with skepticism, National Journal senior political columnist Ron Fournier said in a condemning opinion piece Thursday. “If she wants to be transparent, she’d be transparent,” Fournier said. “If she wants to…
Could the leaders in Washington please tell us which rules we are allowed to not follow? Please? This is getting confusing for the average American. Since 2005, the United States State Department has had very clear rules that employees cannot use personal email for official business. In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent out an internal directive reminding State…
Doesn’t the latest Hillary Clinton scandal make you want to throw up your hands and say: Do we really have to do this again? Do we have to go back there? People assume she is our next president. We are defining political deviancy down. The scandal this week is that we have belatedly found out, more than two years after she…
Google Inc , American Airlines Group Inc , Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Johnson&Johnson were among hundreds that signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief in support of gay marriage. Many of America’s largest companies rallied behind the gay marriage cause on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled oral arguments for April 28 on the contentious social issue that promises…
Obamacare is back at the Supreme Court this morning, facing a challenge that represents the biggest legal threat to the health-care law since the justices three years ago upheld the requirement for individuals to have health insurance. The justices will hear arguments today over the financial assistance available to help people purchase health insurance. Here are some key facts to…
The prime minister’s speech before Congress has forced Obama to defend his reckless Iran policy. Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress was notable in two respects. Queen Esther got her first standing O in 2,500 years. And President Obama came up empty in his campaign to pre-emptively undermine Netanyahu before the Israeli prime minister could present his case on the Iran…
Ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu once said: “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” When it comes to the battle for religious freedom, knowing our enemies means knowing their goal: a new secular America where religious freedom—and thus religious influence—is removed. Powerful organizations are spending millions to destroy your religious liberty, and they’re…
Valentine’s Day brings thoughts of love and marriage and sweet things to eat. This Valentines Day a business that is all about those things got some very bad news. Aaron and Melissa Klein own Sweet Cakes Bakery — well, at least they had a bakery. It was located on the edge of downtown Gresham, Oregon. They specialize in wedding cakes…
Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of…