The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis’ meeting with embattled Kentucky clerk Kim Davis was not an endorsement of her views. The New York Times reports that, although many interpreted the encounter between Pope Francis and Kim Davis last week to be a “subtle intervention in the United States’ same-sex marriage debate,” in fact, it […]
A tense battle to defund Planned Parenthood is being waged in Congress in the wake of the release of highly edited videos by the conservative pro-life group The Center for American Progress (CAP). The New England Journal Of Medicine thoroughly debunked those allegations by CAP as false earlier this month, and a congressional appointed investigation […]
Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina told Yahoo News that she endorses some of the country’s most controversial intelligence tactics, including the CIA’s torture program which involved waterboarding, in an interview published Monday. As CNN reports, “Waterboarding is an aggressive technique, slammed by critics as torture, that simulates drowning” that was used by the U.S. during […]
A new Quinnipiac University National poll released today shows that Americans oppose shutting down the federal government in the dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood by a margin of 69 – 23 percent, including 56 – 36 percent among Republicans. The poll also found that a slightly smaller portion of voters, 52 – 41 percent, oppose cutting […]
Things have become heated in conservative circles in Washington, D.C. since embattled Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner announced his retirement last Friday. Ted Cruz fired the first salvo, lashing out at Boehner and accusing him of betraying the Republican Party. According to conservative website The Blaze, Cruz told reporters at the conservative Values […]