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The Obama administration announced Monday its twenty-seventh delay to the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare."

• 02/11/2014
• 20 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Health Care Politics

There is "not even a smidgen of corruption" at the Internal Revenue Service, President Barack Obama recently declared in response to a question about IRS harassment of conservative groups. Here is a timeline of the events to which Obama was referring

• 02/10/2014
• 32 Comments
• Tag: Abortion Barack Obama Politics Evangelicals

The Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," will encourage some Americans to work less, the Congressional Budget Office recently reported. That is great news, the Obama administration argued. Here is why they are wrong.

• 02/08/2014
• 52 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Health Care Politics National Debt

Ten years from now, about 31 million U.S. residents will be without health insurance, predicts a study by the Congressional Budget Office.

• 02/06/2014
• 12 Comments
• Tag: Health Care Politics

The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference is launching an effort to boost support for the Obama administration's major education reform effort, the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

• 02/06/2014
• 34 Comments
• Tag: Politics Education

President Barack Obama spoke Thursday about religious freedom as a key component of United States foreign policy at the National Prayer Breakfast, noting that freedom of religion is central to human dignity.

• 02/06/2014
• 86 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Persecution Politics Religious Freedom

There was "not even a smidgen of corruption" at the Internal Revenue Service, President Barack Obama said Sunday regarding the scandal involving the targeting of conservative groups. If that is true, reporters and Republican members of Congress are a..

• 02/05/2014
• 24 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Politics

There will be about two million fewer American workers by 2017 because of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," a Congressional Budget Office report released Tuesday finds.

• 02/04/2014
• 189 Comments
• Tag: Economic Crisis Health Care Politics

When asked about the problem of children born to single mothers in the black community, President Barack Obama defended his record, saying it is an issue he and first lady Michelle Obama address "explicitly all the time."

• 02/04/2014
• 30 Comments
• Tag: Barack Obama Politics Marriage

Republicans are easier to make fun of because they will laugh at jokes about them while Democrats will take jokes about them personally, Lorne Michaels, producer of Saturday Night Live, said in an interview with New York Magazine.

• 02/04/2014
• 5 Comments
• Tag: Television Politics

"The children belong to all of us," Paul Reville, an education professor at Harvard and former Massachusetts secretary of Education, said Friday in explaining why states should adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

• 02/03/2014
• 19 Comments
• Tag: Politics Education

The political mobilization of social conservative voters is far more extensive today than it was during the 1990s when the Christian Right helped the Republican Party take control of Congress, Ralph Reed, founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom C..

• 02/01/2014
• 24 Comments
• Tag: Politics Evangelicals

Evangelical leaders supporting immigration reform praised the new set of principles on immigration reform released by House Republicans after their winter meeting.

• 01/31/2014
• 61 Comments
• Tag: Politics Immigration

Republicans had begun a boycott of MSNBC Thursday night after the company posted a tweet accusing Republicans of racism in relation to a biracial couple. The boycott ended only hours later after MSNBC President Phil Griffin personally apologized. On ..

• 01/31/2014
• 10 Comments
• Tag: Politics Race/Multi-Ethnic

The Obama administration's argument that mandating birth control coverage reduces unintended pregnancies and has health benefits for women is based upon faulty reasoning and flawed research, the Beverly LaHaye Institute argues in an Amicus, or "frien..

• 01/31/2014
• 31 Comments
• Tag: Abortion Barack Obama Health Care Politics Religious Freedom

Pope Francis met Thursday with Notre Dame leaders and asked the Catholic University to defend the Church's freedom. The meeting came after Notre Dame again asked a court for an injunction against the Obama administration's birth control mandate. A fe..

• 01/30/2014
• 4 Comments
• Tag: Abortion Politics Pope Religious Freedom

Actress Scarlett Johansson announced Thursday she left her role as an ambassador for the humanitarian group Oxfam International, a position she held for eight years. Her ad campaign for SodaStream, which will air during Sunday's Super Bowl, was at od..

• 01/30/2014
• 8 Comments
• Tag: Politics Israel

Income inequality in the United States has increased since 1960, in part, because of more women entering the workforce and "assortative mating," or the tendency for people to choose mates with similar education levels, according to new research.

• 01/30/2014
• 30 Comments
• Tag: Poverty Politics Education

The Democratic advantage in state-level partisanship was smaller in 2013 than in 2012, and a lot smaller than its 2008 high point, according to Gallup's yearly look at the political composition of the states.

• 01/29/2014
• 17 Comments
• Tag: Politics Election

The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of 18 drugs for farm animals, even though an internal review found the drugs present a "high risk" of exposing humans to "super-bacteria" that are resistant to antibiotics.

• 01/29/2014
• 4 Comments
• Tag: Health Care Politics