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Navy bans Satanists from holding 'satanic services' at the US Naval Academy after the group announced they were planning weekly meetings An email sent to U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen on October 8 offered to hold 'satanic religious services' hosted by the Satanic Temple The email offered to hold discussions of satanic philosophy, along with the 'literary history of Satan' A spokeswoman with the USNA asserted that it was shared prematurely, adding that the group originally asked to hold a 'study group' She added that the Satanic Temple represents 'a non-theistic religious and politically active movement' The military is forbidden from...

A group called Alliance Defending Freedom organized a group of around 1,600 pastors who endorsed candidates from the pulpit in the weeks leading up to tomorrows election. Since the 1950’s the IRS has banned 501(c)(3) tax exempt churches from engaging in political activity, including endorsing candidates. The IRS has never enforced the law. Every few years the government sends out warning letters but it’s never actually taken the law to court. They likely know it wouldn’t be upheld by the Supreme Court. The Alliance Defending Freedom appears to be a conservative group and as such their 1,600 pastors appear to...

HOMELAND INSECURITY Patriot Act II – is it a prudent step to stem terrorist activity in the U.S. and protect the homeland, or a Draconian measure designed to strip the last vestiges of freedom from the American landscape? Such is the question increasingly on the minds of Internet users, many of whom come down squarely on the side of legal experts who warn of the legislation's danger. Though an actual bill to further expand federal law-enforcement powers has not been introduced, activists for months have communicated online about what they see as potential Nazi-like developments. The first USA Patriot Act...

WASHINGTON- Where you stood on unions may have depended Thursday on where you stood on Capitol Hill. At a Senate hearing, a Louisiana mariner told sympathetic Democrats about the harassment and threats he said workers faced from boat companies when they tried to unionize. "It shouldn't be this hard to form a union," said Eric Vizier of Galliano, La. On the opposite side of the Capitol, a very different union tale was unfolding at another sympathetic hearing - this time in front of House Republicans. An Ohio school psychologist talked of being forced to join and subsidize a union that...

Landmark President Mark R. Levin will testify 10 a.m.m, tomorrow before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the Subcommittee on Worforce Protections, Room 2175 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC. Mark will testify oabout Landmark's complaints to the IRS, the Federal Election Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor over the National Education Association's political expenditures and activities in violation of federal tax, finance and labor laws. The hearing promises to be exciting because NEA General Counsel Robert Chanin is also scheduled to appear on behalf of the union!

As longtime listeners to the EIB Network know, Mark "F. Lee" Levin heads the legal department of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Mark is also president of the Landmark Legal Foundation - and they're going after these hypocritical liberal organizations that claim to be non-partisan. Yes, the Landmark Legal Foundation has taken on the National Education Association. Levin filed a complaint against the NEA for hosting political activities primarily for Democrat candidates and causes, saying, "The NEA obviously doesn't want America's teachers, parents and taxpayers to know how it is using tax exempt membership dues and fees." This...

For several years, there has been much hysteria about how soft money has corrupted the political process. Democrats, self-serving media organizations and Sen. John McCain (the Keating Five-tainted presidential aspirant whose campaign was trounced by George W. Bush) have been shedding crocodile tears over soft money. As it happens, during the 1999-2000 electoral cycle, each of the two major political parties raised about $250 million in soft money from corporations, unions and individuals. Every dime of those evenly divided soft money donations was publicly disclosed. Any interested voter was free to make his own informed judgment about the source and...