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Alissa Lopez | August 12, 2016
Indonesia, a majority Muslim country, has taken a very clear stand against LGBT rights. Where is the liberal outrage?  The spokesperson for President Joko Widodo, Johan Budi, released a statement saying, "Rights of citizens like going to school and getting an I.D. card are protected, but there is no room in Indonesia for the proliferation of the LGBT movement.”  Budi later clarified in a text…
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Alissa Lopez | August 12, 2016
On Sunday, the Franklin Police Department in Ohio received a phone call that a young boy was wandering the streets in downtown Franklin alone. Officer Steve Dunham found the 7-year-old boy in front of a drug store trying to sell his teddy bear. The reason? He wanted money so he could buy food because he hadn’t eaten in days. “It broke my heart,” Dunham said in an interview with NBC…
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Alissa Lopez | August 11, 2016
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on Thursday that it has denied two petitions to minimize the amount of federal restrictions on marijuana. However, the DEA said they will increase the number of DEA-registered manufacturers that simply grow the plant in order to study the effects of it. The press release stated: This change should provide researchers with a more varied…
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Alissa Lopez | August 9, 2016
    The American Action Forum (AAF) published a study Sunday revealing that President Obama has implemented 618 major regulations during his 7.5 years in the White House -- 40 percent more than President Bush passed in his two full terms. But that isn’t what is most shocking about this report. President Obama’s major regulations are estimated to have imposed a $747 billion dollar burden on…
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Alissa Lopez | August 9, 2016
On Thursday, the federal government announced that it will be lifting a ban on funding the controversial stem cell research that involves creating an embryos that are a combination of human and animal DNA. The moratorium was placed in September of 2015 because National Institutes of Health officials "needed to assess the science and to evaluate the ethical and moral questions it raises.”…
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Alissa Lopez | August 9, 2016
  According to a study conducted by Gallup, the number of Americans who currently smoke marijuana has nearly doubled since 2013. In July of 2013, only 7 percent of Americans reported in telephone interviews with Gallup researchers that they, at the time, smoked marijuana. But in 2013, only two states - Colorado and Washington State - had legalized the recreational use of weed. But within…
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Alissa Lopez | August 4, 2016
On Monday, the California State Assembly passed House Resolution 59, with bipartisan support, officially declaring August 2016 "Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month." This is the same state that always seems to be threatening religious liberty (at least when it comes to Christians). The resolution states: Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the Assembly joins…
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Alissa Lopez | August 3, 2016
Official FBI documents recently obtained by Judicial Watch reveal more details on how the IRS deliberately buried the applications of some conservative groups, a scandal that ultimately cost former IRS Commissioner Lois Lerner her job. The 105-page FBI report released this week details the mid-2013 interviews with Cincinnati IRS employees. The report details the various processes the IRS used…
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Alissa Lopez | August 2, 2016
After being assisted by police officers, the leader of a local New Black Panther Party group Ali Muhammad still remains “very anti-police.” Muhammad had reportedly just finished up a DJing gig at a club in Ybor City in Tampa, Fl. when he was robbed around 3 a.m on Saturday. An 18-year old black man by the name of Antwan Robertson, who is suspected of being homeless, held Muhammad at gunpoint.…
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Alissa Lopez | August 2, 2016
According to a report from the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm, occupational licensing requirements are harmful toward workers who simply want to earn “an honest living in the occupation of their choice.” But the law firm isn’t looking into jobs such as being an architect or health care administrator. It’s specifically examining the hair braiding profession. Here's the executive…