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Religious liberty is an individual right, not merely a right of religious institutions and their nonprofits 
      
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STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT  When Mitt Romney ran for president last year, he gave the world an unprecedented glimpse into Mormon values and traditions, as he showcased his religion's relativistic, pragmatic, materialistic excesses... (more) 
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ALAN KEYES  On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight... (more) 
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WORLDNETDAILY  He's a fourth-generation Boy Scout leader, recipient of an award for distinguished leadership and a member of the Southern Region committee as well as an ad hoc member of the national committee... (more) 
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Activist alert! 
WORLDNETDAILY  Millions of Americans believe a vote taking place this week could mean the end of the Boy Scouts of America  
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ASSOCIATED PRESS  President Barack Obama said Sunday that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles, weighing in on two storied American institutions facing proposals to end long-held exclusions... (more) 
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JOSEPH FARAH  Is the U.S. government getting ready for a war we don't know about? And, if that's why Washington is stockpiling massive amounts of ammunition (hollow points, by the way), why is Homeland Security doing the buying instead of the Defense Department?... (more) 
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WORLDNETDAILY  While President Obama and some of his allies on Capitol Hill prepare for a major push on gun-control legislation, state lawmakers are preparing to resist new federal restrictions... (more) 
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CHRISTIAN POST  By many accounts, the Dodge commercial featuring Paul Harvey's commentary was the winner in quality and in pulling at heart strings. Here's Harvey's words: "And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker.' So God made a farmer... (more) 
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NEWSMAX  Two powerful conservative groups say a new American Crossroads' initiative, formed to work against Republican candidates it deems unelectable, is just another attempt to muzzle the GOP's true base. American Crossroads, a super PAC founded by a group led by former Bush White House advisor Karl Rove, was the largest Republican super PAC of the 2012 election cycle... (more) 
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TWITCHY  Wait, did we say Twitter users have been Photoshopping that picture of President Mom Jeans and his shotgun? Can't be. As Twitchy reported earlier today, the White House issued the photo with the stern warning that it "may not be manipulated in any way"... (more) 
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ASSOCIATED PRESS  A 25-year-old Iraq war veteran charged with murdering former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and his friend turned a gun onto the pair while they were at a Texas shooting range, authorities said Sunday... (more) 
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THE HILL  Under a bipartisan Senate framework, Democrats say, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would have final say over whether the border is secure enough to put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship... (more) 
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SKY NEWS  British troops are using a nano drone just 10cm long and weighing 16 grams on the front line in Afghanistan to provide vital information on the ground. They are the first to use the state-of-the-art handheld tiny surveillance helicopters, which relay reliable full motion video and still images back to the devices' handlers in the battlefield... (more) 
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ASSOCIATED PRESS  Gov. Rick Perry said emphatically Saturday that the Boy Scouts of America shouldn't soften its strict no-gays membership policy, and suggested that bending the organization to the whims of popular culture is wrong. Perry is an Eagle Scout and in 2008 he authored the book "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For."... (more) 
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ANDREW C. MCCARTHY  I'm done grumbling about how President Obama is empowering America's enemies. After all, it is not just Obama. When it comes to abetting the Muslim Brotherhood, Republicans are right there with him. Not all of them, of course. This week, for example, Senator Rand Paul proposed an amendment that would have prohibited our government from transferring F-16 aircraft and Abrams tanks to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood 
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER  President Obama will travel to Minnesota on Monday with hopes of building support in the law enforcement community for his set of gun control initiatives. However, public safety officials outside urban pockets are increasingly hostile toward a sweeping set of proposals they say would do nothing to curtail violence... (more) 
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BOSTON HERALD  Massachusetts Republicans are desperately scrambling to find a strong Senate candidate to replace Scott Brown, with some even trying to persuade Mitt Romney's wife or son to jump into the race to avert another electoral disaster. The former GOP senator's decision to stay out of the June 25 special election surprised and angered some Republican leaders... (more) 
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ASSOCIATED PRESS  Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy's maker said. Cassagnes died Jan. 16 in a Paris suburb at age 86, said the Ohio Art Co., based in Bryan in northwest Ohio. The cause wasn't disclosed Saturday... (more) 
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JOHN HAYWARD  Sunday, February 3, is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, which makes it the one hundredth birthday of the income tax.  It has grown rather ill-tempered in its dotage. Americans for Tax Reform commemorated the occasion by publishing a few fun facts about the income tax... (more) 
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WORLDNETDAILY  The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to explain its punishment for a U.S. soldier convicted of shooting and killing a suspected terrorist who was attacking him... (more) 
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