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Fifth-graders grill college students on Constitution

Stephen Schaetzle, college student and Navy reservist didn't know what was in store early Wednesday when the little kid in a red Liberty Day t-shirt with Betsy Ross flag on the back, asked for a minute of his time. A good sport, he submitted to being ...

GOP bill preserves religious liberty for nonprofits and businesses

A trio of House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday that protects religious nonprofits and devout business owners from a provision in President Obama's health care law that requires them to insure contraception for their employees, a mandate they v ...

Fact Check: Is there an attempt to make Obama the president for life?

Florida Times-Union - Times-Union readers want to know: An email says that there's a proposal in Congress to repeal the 22nd Amendment and make Barack Obama the president for life. Is this true? The email asks that you search for H.J. Res 5 to see th ...

300 turn out to support portrait of Jesus at Jackson school

JACKSON, Ohio - So many people showed up tonight to take a stand for Jesus that a meeting to discuss whether a painting of Him should hang in a public school had to be moved to a bigger space. In the end, the school board and administration agreed th ...

Obama admin official wants to register everyone to vote automatically

WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the top enforcers of the nation's civil rights laws said Friday government should be responsible for automatically registering citizens to vote by using existing databases to compile lists of all eligible residents in each ju ...

Feds' use of surveillance devices rises sharply

WASHINGTON (AP) - TheĀ Justice Department's use of electronic devices to intercept phone numbers, email addresses and online information has climbed by 64 percent since 2009, according to a study of records released under theĀ Freedom of Information Ac ...

Lawsuit filed over Jesus statue on public land

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The battle over a 57-year-old Jesus statue at a northwest Montana ski resort escalated Wednesday with a new federal lawsuit arguing that the Forest Service needs to remove the relic from its mountaintop perch. The legal challenge ...

Conservatives object to interference with religious liberty

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's political shifting over contraception coverage has united conservative Republicans in protest even as they split over which GOP presidential hopeful should face him in the general election. The candidates th ...


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