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Following the play-by-play of the litigation initiated by numerous states over the new healthcare law’s  “individual mandate” – the part that requires everyone to purchase health insurance whether they want it or not, on pain of paying a penalty to the IRS – can be tough unless you’re keeping an up-to-date scorecard. We were told [...]

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The couple featured in the Oscar-nominated movie, ‘The Blind Side,’ have written a follow-up memoir entitled, ‘In a Heartbeat: Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving’

At a time when seniors and the terminally ill are concerned about how the new health care law will affect them, a disturbing new billboard campaign has sparked outrage.

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, appears adamant to overturn a 2006 law that criminalizes Internet gambling.

It is hardly uncommon to see teachers leading their students on educational tours of the U.S. Capitol, the White House, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

'Instead of petitioning their local school boards, parents would have to trek to Washington to lobby D.C. bureaucrats on their children's education.'

Argentina is the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage and gay adoption.

The Obama administration scrambled into "clarification" mode today following a revelation that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) approved $160 million in taxpayer funds going to Pennsylvania could be used to fund abortions.

The backlash continues over the recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as head of Medicare and Medicaid.

The Atheists of Florida filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the City of Lakeland for opening commission meetings in prayer.

The Senate is set to vote on a financial overhaul bill that would set up a quota system for women and minorities. It would impact every federal agency that deals with finances and every private financial company doing business with the government.

Gov. Jay Nixon announced today that a bill, which expands the requirements made on abortion clinics, would go into effect without his signature.

'This is the boldest admission yet from the Obama administration that the president's executive order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham.'

The American Bar Association (ABA) – a 400,000-member legal association – signaled today that it will offer a measure next month that will urge state, territorial and tribal governments to support same-sex marriage.

"The political objective of keeping partial-birth abortion legal appears to have trumped what a medical organization originally wrote."

A Connecticut woman using in vitro fertilization (IVF) to have a baby, elected to abort her baby – used the morning-after pill – after learning that a lab technician mistakenly implanted a human embryo belonging to another woman with the same last name.

A Massachusetts casino bill aimed at "alleviating economic hardship" has been delayed multiple times in the Senate after taking just two days to gain approval from the House.