May 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: True the Vote is not only suing the IRS, but also taking action against the IRS employees who participated in the harassment of the voter education and election monitoring organization. Those employees could personally be held liable to pay damages that would be established in litigation. True the Votes’ lead counsel, ...
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May 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP - The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a verdict against the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend in a case that captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies, violence. A new panel likely will be seated to try again to reach a decision on ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday, the first lawsuit in the wake of revelations the agency singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, according to a report. The NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, according to Reuters, arguing its constitutional rights were violated ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW True the Vote, a Houston-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting voter fraud, has filed suit in federal court against the IRS, asking the court to grant its tax-exempt status (three years after applying) and seeking damages for unlawful actions taken by the IRS against the organization. Catherine Engelbrecht, a member of the Harris County, ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times: The Supreme Court has agreed to revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can begin most of its monthly meetings with a prayer from a Christian pastor. Thirty years ago, the court upheld a state legislature's practice of beginning its session with a nondenominational ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
“This wasn’t ‘workplace violence.’ It was a terrorist act. He was performing his jihad.” — Fort Hood survivor. Excerpted from NBCDFW The Department of Defense confirms to NBC 5 Investigates that accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan has now been paid more than $278,000 since the Nov. 5, 2009 shooting that left 13 dead 32 injured. ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Magpul Industries has joined a lawsuit filed in federal court Friday against the state of Colorado, hoping to overturn strict new gun control laws that have caused the magazine manufacturer to begin the process of moving out of state. But regardless of the ultimate outcome of the suit, the company is still ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Excerpted from Christian News: Fort Worth, Texas – A Texas pastor and a member his church have been found guilty of crossing a police barricade during a homosexual pride festival last year. As previously reported, Pastor Joey Faust says that he and other members of his church, Kingdom Baptist Church in Venus, Texas, were physically blocked ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid. The issue has far-reaching implications for both the NLRB and other boards, including ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WND A federal judge has issued a startling ruling that suppressing Christian speech is allowed when Muslims threaten violence because they’re upset over the message. The ruling from Judge Patrick J. Duggan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Wayne County’s motion for summary judgment of a lawsuit brought ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative organization whose confidential records were leaked by the IRS to its left-wing critics, announced on Tuesday it will sue the tax agency for damages. NOM’s 2008 tax return was, according to a press release the group sent out on Tuesday, taken by the IRS ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive has agreed to give up his right to an appeal and will be spared a potential death sentence. Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of the babies who were delivered alive and killed ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from LIFE SITE NEWS – If Kermit Gosnell seeks to appeal today's guilty verdict, he will not be able to do so by claiming his jurors were politically biased. According to a local media account, nine of the 12 jurors who convicted Gosnell of first-degree murder and a host of other crimes support legal abortion. “[T]o give ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from YAHOO NEWS CENTENNIAL, Colo.—A significant number of victims have objected to James Holmes pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge in the Aurora, Colo., shooting case told the courtroom today that Holmes’ attorneys proved they can pursue that defense. “The court finds that good cause has been shown [to enter the plea],” ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from LIFE NEWS The jury in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell returned a verdict and found him guilty on three of the four first-degree murder charges he faced. Gosnell was found guilty of killing Baby A, Baby C and Baby D and found not guilty of killing Baby E. He was also convicted ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP A Philadelphia jury has been asked to try to keep working to try to break a deadlock on two counts in the murder trial of a longtime abortion provider. Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of killing a patient and four babies allegedly born alive and then killed with scissors. He also faces racketeering ...
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