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A U.S. Supreme Court health-care ruling this week won't directly affect lawsuits filed by religious-affiliated employers like Ave Maria University over a controversial contraception mandate earlier this year. But nestled in the 193-page decision issued Thursday that upheld the constitutionality of the federal health-care act, there was a "silver lining for people of faith," said Kyle Duncan, general counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public interest law firm handling lawsuits by Ave Maria and others. The ruling "suggests that the Supreme Court is willing to entertain arguments that the (Department of Health and Human Services) mandate violates...

As I said earlier this morning, I am afraid the disloyalty to Republican and American principles by people who should know better has left patriots with little choice but to back a pathetic GOP presidential candidate, in the hopes of bringing down the greatest threat to liberty since FDR’s “New Deal” (likely an even greater threat). Though we may be forced to work with a liberal to defeat an even greater liberal threat, that does not mean we should or even must surrender the values that made America great–and can restore her to greatness once again. In fact, now more...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold Pres. Obama’s healthcare law is mobilizing Georgia Republicans. Fundraising and volunteer activity spiked on Thursday, and a new state poll shows the lead of GOP presumptive presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, is widening. For Georgia Republicans, the ruling means one thing: electing Romney is the only way to repeal the law. State GOP officials say donations surged upon news of the ruling, and volunteers are flooding the party’s Web site. Mark Rountree is Georgia-based Republican strategist and pollster. His firm, Landmark Communications in conjunction with Rosetta Stone, conducted a poll Thursday that shows Romney...

Repeal: After a full day's reflection, we still feel that the ObamaCare ruling is an outrage. And while we acknowledge that it's now settled law, we believe that it's poor public policy and needs to be expunged from the books. We're still nettled by the Supreme Court ruling that ObamaCare's individual mandate can stand constitutionally as a tax when Congress failed to define the penalty for failing to buy health insurance that way. But we can do nothing about that. The court has spoken. What we can do, with an eye toward repeal, is point out just how malignant the...

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Gunmen driving a van packed with gas canisters firebombed the Athens headquarters of Microsoft on Wednesday. Fire gutted the ground floor of the blue four-story HQ of the U.S. software giant, blackening its walls with flames, on the eve of yet another European summit seeking a solution to a regional debt crisis first unleashed by Greece. At least two attackers were involved in the sophisticated assault at 4.45 a.m. in Maroussi, a northern suburb of the sprawling Greek capital, police said. Brandishing pistols and an automatic rifle, they kept security guards at bay and set fire to the van carrying...

By now you know what the Supreme Court verdict is: ObamaCare is a tax. So what does that mean in terms of actual dollar amounts for Americans and businesses who will pay this new tax? The Heritage Foundation and Americans for Tax Reform have released a series of summaries, tables and charts to help families understand what this means for their wallet. Heritage: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)[1] imposes numerous tax hikes that transfer more than $500 billion over 10 years—and more in the future—from hardworking American families and businesses to Congress for spending on new entitlements...

They were talking about the Holder contempt and Rivers started raising his voice and it got a bit heated. All the time Laura I was calm. Rivers basically said is short that there's nothing on Holder and it's just a political hackery by Issa. Rivers not only made a complete ASS out of himself but he finished the segment saying he wasn't worried about the Democrats and that he was a Republica. I about spit beer all over my keyboard when I heard that come from his mouth. I hope someone can link the video here when it's available- definitely...

The exhausted crew of the Brigitte Bardot scramble to evacuate the ailing vessel. And Captain Paul Watson goes on the offensive, sending a team to board the heavily armed security vessel: the Shonan Maru.

Congressional Democrats’ Pennsylvania Problem Stuart Rothenberg June 29, 2012 · 3:48 PM EDT As Democrats struggle to net 25 seats and win back the House majority in November, no single state reflects the party’s challenges more than Pennsylvania. After all, Pennsylvania has gone Democratic in the past five presidential contests, and the apparent movement of the Philadelphia suburbs away from the GOP during the past two decades suggests a fundamental political shift in the state. But if the southeastern corner of the Keystone State has started to resemble New Jersey and Connecticut, Western Pennsylvania increasingly looks like West Virginia or...

Despite President Putin’s show of confidence at St. Petersburg’s annual economic forum, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin has warned that Russia could be facing a dramatic economic downturn in the near future. According to the New York Times, Kudrin suggested that “the situation is a lot worse than it was presented” at the forum, especially if oil prices continue to slide further below the $117/barrel mark the Kremlin needs to balance this year’s budget. If Putin’s campaign promises of higher wages, improved maternity leave benefits, and increased military spending kick in, the national budget could become even more precarious, Kudrin...

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four individuals and three entities involved in laundering the proceeds of narcotics trafficking for drug kingpin Ayman Joumaa. Treasury also designated a Colombia-based individual under its terrorism authority, Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, for directing Hezbollah’s fundraising activities in the Americas. This individual was previously designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for his role in narcotics-related money laundering. Today’s designations further expose Ayman Joumaa’s network as a major narcotics and money laundering enterprise that has reach throughout the Americas and the Middle East with links to Hezbollah. As with...

and once inside he comes across 0bama and a bunch of democrats. He notices from the note 0bama is holding they intend to rob the bank. Roberts grabs the note from 0bama and informs them all that they can't do what they are intending. Roberts says: "You can't do that! You can't demand that the bank surrender their money!" Roberts rewrites the note to say "This is a stick-up" and hands it back to 0bama saying that it's now OK to go ahead with their plans.

Thankfully, we haven’t gotten to this point yet. But we’re certainly one step closer.

"I Feel if he doesn't get all his DUCKS IN A ROW we'll b forced 2 listen 2Uncaring Richy Rich! The whitest man in MAGIC UNDERWEAR in the WH" - Cher on Twitter Predictably, scratch a leftist and find a bigot. And in case her bigotry didn’t stand out enough, she kindly screamed it out in capital letters for you. She’s a giver. Of course, we already knew that about Cher. Remember, she doesn’t even want to breathe the same air as Romney and his ‘racist homophobic women hating tea bagger masters.’ Wow, how enlightened and tolerant! She ups the...

Two great white sharks were spotted off the coast of Chatham on Thursday, the first documented sightings of the 2012 summer season, according to the Sandwich-based Cape Cod Shark Hunters. “I spotted a couple yesterday,” spotter pilot George Breen said today. “One was about a quarter-mile offshore and the bigger of the two was about 50 yards off.”

Otherwise we could have a non-strict-Constitutionalist placed on the supreme court. What would Ron Paul have said about yesterday's ruling? The answer - it no longer matters. All the people who went into hair pulling mode over Ron Paul now have to examine the guy they support. There is only one. Highlander style. The battlefield has changed. Romney will save us? Is that it? I'm from the Govt. I'm here to help you. Bend over and say "ronpaul".