LifeUnited Provides Pro-Life Resources and Opportunities

adoption_1356533468_125x100Orlando, FL – Liberty Counsel has entered into a strategic partnership with seven other pro-life organizations to launch LifeUnited.org, a website that provides a wide range of resources in order to end abortion and help women and families victimized by abortion.

LifeUnited is a collaboration of eight unique groups, including Liberty Counsel, Life Continue reading

Federal Appeals Court: Obama Labor Board Recess Appointments Unconstitutional

Right to Work Foundation attorneys argued purported recess appointments were invalid because Senate was not in recess

Barack ObamaWashington, DC – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday struck down President Barack Obama’s controversial purported “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed an amicus curiae brief jointly with the Landmark Legal Foundation in the case, Noel Canning v. NLRB. Continue reading

The Equator Principles and Sustainable Poverty

By Tom DeWeese

 

“Planet Earth.” Credit: Wikimedia

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” Michael Oppenheimer (Environmental Defense Fund)

The reminders are put in front of us every day. Poverty in the world. How horrible. Starving children. Unimaginable hardships. Hopelessness. “SOMEONE MUST DO SOMETHING!”

Of course, the answer for the world leadership is to throw money at the problem, either Continue reading

Worker Advocate Files Brief in Federal Dispute over Forced Unionization in Michigan Public Projects

Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Cincinnati, OH – Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have filed a brief in support of a Michigan law prohibiting state and local government agencies from imposing so-called “project labor agreements” (PLAs) that require unionized workers for public projects.Foundation staff attorneys filed the amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit located in Cincinnati. Continue reading

All Politics Should Be Local

Hughey Newsome, Project 21

Hughey Newsome, Project 21

By Hughey Newsome, Project 21

It is ironic that the city Barack Obama used to demonstrate his capabilities as a leader is now nearly out of cash.

During the 2012 campaign, the President and his liberal supporters touted the auto bailout as having saved Detroit. The carmakers may still be alive, but the Motor City itself is in big trouble!

According to a December 3 Wall Street Journal commentary, for example, the city is near Continue reading

Mourning the Loss of Lives, More Determined to Win

Mathew Staver

Mathew Staver (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

Washington, DC – Tuesday marked four decades of violence against preborn children. Since January 22, 1973, America has aborted about 54 million preborn children. By contrast, we have lost under 1 million people in all the wars in American history combined, from the Revolution to the Civil War to Afghanistan

Abortion hits minority communities the hardest. While African-Americans make up Continue reading

Conservatives Raise the Threat Level, According to West Point

Mathew D. Staver

Mathew D. Staver, Liberty Counsel

Washington, DC – “While the threat of Islamic terrorism is playing out in various parts of the world, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is studying America’s ‘violent’ conservatives, including anti-federalists and fundamentalists,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.

The love of God and country and the desire to “to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage” are marks of terrorists, according to the 147-page study entitled Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right. The author of the so-called study is Dr. Arie Perliger Continue reading

Judicial Watch Special Report: “The Benghazi Attack of September 11, 2012: Analysis and Further Questions”

Judicial Watch Analysis on Eve of Hillary Clinton Hill Testimony Finds Continued State Department Duplicity, Questions Department Commitment to Protect Security of Overseas Diplomats

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo: Harald Dettenborn

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo: Harald Dettenborn

Washington, DC – Judicial Watch on Tuesday released “The Benghazi Attack of September 11, 2012: Analysis and Further Questions from a Diplomatic Security Service Regional Security Officer and Special Agent,” a Special Report closely examining the Obama administration’s actions before, during, and after the assault, as well as the State Department’s commitment to protect overseas diplomats.

The new report contains in-depth analysis, conducted exclusively for Judicial Watch by former State Department Security Special Agent Raymond Fournier, examines the critical time period leading up to the Benghazi attack, when repeated requests for increased Continue reading

“Get Ready to Explode”

By Alan Sexton, Green Mountain Scribes

gms_eh - CopySome things are better left unsaid, and when they are said, better left un-repeated, especially when we are advised to “Get ready to explode”.

Take, for example, the following quote posted yesterday by Dr. Jim Garrow on his Facebook page:

“I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new ‘litmus test’ in determining who will Continue reading

U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Latest Legatum Prosperity Index

Latest Legatum Prosperity Index Flags the ‘American Dream’ at Risk. In an unprecedented fall, the US drops out of the top ten of the 2012 Legatum Prosperity Index. 

  • US drops out of global prosperity ‘top ten’ ranking for the first time.
  • Falling confidence in elections prompts drop in Governance rankings.
  • US falls eight places in Entrepreneurship & Opportunity sub-index, as fewer citizens agree that working hard is the key to success.
  • Asia’s emerging economies overtake US in Economy sub-index.
Credit: Legatum Prosperity Index

Credit: Legatum Prosperity Index

The latest findings from the Legatum Prosperity Index expose a United States in decline. In an unprecedented fall, America drops to 12th position in the worldwide prosperity rankings – with weakening performance across five of the Index’s eight sub-categories.

Falling confidence in elections and a declining Government approval rate has triggered a Continue reading