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Sep 04 2019
News
Hong Kong Leader Caves: Orders Full Withdrawal of Extradition Bill
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Wednesday that the government would fully withdraw the bill that launched the ongoing pro-democracy movement from the legislature, ceding to one of the five demands protesters have been posing to the government for the past three months.
The bill in question would have allowed the Communist Party of China to extradite anyone present in Hong
Breitbart News
Jun 28 2022
Headline Roundup
Has The Supreme Court Weakened The Separation Between Church and State?
Over the past few weeks, the Supreme Court has made a number of decisions that many analysts believe weakens the separation between church and state.
On Monday, the six conservatives sitting on the Supreme Court sided with a Washington high school football coach who wanted to continue praying at midfield after games — concluding that he had a constitutional right to do so. The court
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The Federalist
Feb 05 2015
News
Obama Calls ISIS a ‘Vicious Death Cult’ at National Prayer Breakfast
President Barack Obama called the militant group Islamic State a “brutal, vicious death cult” in one of his strongest condemnations to date of the group.
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Mr. Obama praised the ability of religion to lift people up and inspire good deeds, and condemned what he said was a distortion of faith by groups like Islamic
Wall Street Journal (News)
Feb 07 2017
Opinion
What Is the Democratic Party?
‘Voting against their own interests’ The popular progressive understanding of the Republican party and conservative movement is something like this: It is, at heart, a conspiracy of corporate oligarchs who use a collection of so-called social issues — religion, bigotry, racial resentment, anti-immigrant sentiment — to stir up the rubes in support of its own parochial economic agenda, tricking
National Review (News)
May 23 2020
Analysis
Religious Freedom After Trump
President Trump floated the idea Friday that houses of worship would be deemed “essential” by his administration. “They use the word ‘essential.’ I think churches are essential,” Trump said in a press conference.
The president told reporters that “literally I just got off the phone with CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and I talked about churches. I said I want the
The American Spectator
Dec 09 2014
News
Justice Department broadens ban on racial profiling
The Justice Department on Monday issued new guidelines to federal law enforcement officers that will regulate their use of racial profiling in investigations, an update to a policy first put in place in 2003 by then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft.
The policy is intended to eliminate discrimination without hindering federal inquiries and law enforcement. The old guidelines banned profiling
Los Angeles Times
Feb 02 2020
Interactive Debate
Should Hate Speech Be Legally Protected?
The right to freedom of speech is a venerable one, dating back to 6th Century Greece. It is found in the 17th Century English Bill of Rights, it was fought for during the French Revolution, and it is now enshrined in the 19th Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But despite this proud history it is widely agreed that this right is not absolute. Some restrictions are hardly
Kialo
May 20 2013
News
Supreme Court Takes Case On Prayer At Government Meetings
A challenge to the way a western New York State town board has had prayers read before its public meetings has made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The justices announced Monday morning that they will hear oral arguments in the case of Greece, N.Y. v. Galloway, Susan.
The issue, as SCOTUSBlog writes, is whether a federal appeals court was right when it ruled that the town
NPR (Online News)
Jun 30 2020
News
Supreme Court hands win to religious schools
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a Montana policy that excludes religious schools from a general student aid program violates religious freedoms protected under the U.S. Constitution.
The 5-4 majority decision, which fell along ideological lines, said that by making state-backed private school scholarships off-limits to parochial schools, the program ran afoul of First Amendment
The Hill
Jun 22 2021
Analysis
U.S. Catholic Bishops Aren’t Playing Politics With Communion, Biden Is
Let’s dispense with the idea that this is complicated. Catholic teaching is clear: politicians who support abortion should not receive communion. Period.
Should President Joe Biden, a professing Catholic, be allowed to receive Holy Communion despite his ongoing support for abortion?
Of course not. The entire question is a fake controversy ginned up by corporate media hell-bent on
The Federalist