Balancing Government Secrecy and Accountability – What Should the Next President Do?
In attempting to increase national security, has the Bush administration gone too far in sacrificing accountability for secrecy? What does this mean for the…
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America’s Democratic Collapse – A Speech by Chris Hedges
On May 28, Pulitzer Award winning journalist, Chris Hedges, gave a speech at Furman University in South Carolina. Although we do not necessarily agree…
VIDEO: Religious Freedom Worldwide Worsens (Voice of America)
A U.S. advisory panel on May 2, 2008 asked the State Department to expand the list of governments the U.S. considers the world’s worst…
NEWS BRIEFS: Global Privacy, Free Speech Issues
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US (AP) Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell…
NEWS / OPINION: Law Professor Denied Communion Because He Supports Obama
No Religious Tests for Public Office? What about Political Tests to Receive Sacraments? Pepperdine University School of Law Professor, and former Constitutional law advisor…
VIDEO: Could Gay Marriage Erode Non-Profit Tax-Exempt Status?
On March 26, 2007, Brian Brown, Executive director of the Family Institute of Connecticut, testified before the judiciary committee of the state legislature in…
Significant Differences Emerging Between McCain and Obama in Prospective Judicial Nominees (NY Times)
It is looking more and more likely that either Barack Obama or John McCain will be the next President of the United States. They…
Belarus: ‘We are reclaiming our history as a land of religious freedom’ (ChristianToday.com)
Read the full version, which includes a fascinating review of the history of religious liberty in Belarus, online at http://www.christiantoday.com/articledir/print.htm?id=19015 by By Antoni Bokun,…
Does Constitution apply to enemy combatant on U.S. soil? (AP)
In the War Against Terror, it may be difficult to determine who the enemy is. Does the Constitution apply to a U.S. resident held…
McCain to make religious freedom a key foreign policy issue (AFP)
Religion continues to be a hot issue in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Thanks for this link goes to Greg Hamilton at the Northwest Religious…