FRC Washington Update

President Obama isn't selling the bracelets, but he is asking the question: WWJT? What Would Jesus Tax? Speaking at yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast, the President invoked everyone from Jesus to Mohammed to push his universal welfare state. "It's hard for me to ask [people]... who can barely pa...

Lieutenant General William Boykin has stared cowards in the face before, and he won't hesitate to do so now. Not even when the same Army he served is trying to take away the freedom he fought to protect. Boykin, an outspoken Christian and Delta Force hero, had been looking forward to speaking at the...

After seven years of sitting out Susan G. Komen for The Cure events, pro-lifers can finally get back in the Race! Yesterday, America's biggest breast cancer charity made it official: the organization is severing ties with Planned Parenthood. The decision ends a multi-million dollar partnership betwe...

If Maryland's same-sex "marriage" bill was controversial before, then the Governor's wife just poured gasoline on the fire. In a speech last week, Catherine O'Malley certainly didn't help her husband's cause when she was caught on tape calling leaders "cowards" for supporting traditional marriage. "...

Back in 2009, President Obama asked the graduating class of Notre Dame, "How does each of us remain firm in our principles, and fight for what we consider right, without demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side?" Apparently, he never found the answer. Instead, the ad...

It took 19 debates, but the GOP boldly went where no man has gone before. In one of the most entertaining events yet, Newt Gingrich promised the moon, and Ron Paul lined up politicians to send there. From beginning to end, it was an honest (and even humorous) look at the candidates as leaders and hu...

Coffee isn't the only thing brewing at Starbucks. So is controversy--as customers learn about the company's bold blend of liberal politics. This week, the coffeehouse jumped into a fierce battle over marriage in Washington State, home to the Seattle-based company. While the state is still sharply di...

Last night, the President spent an hour trying to erase our memory of the last 8,760. In his last State of the Union before voters decide whether to return his "change," President Obama continued to promote the same ideas that have led to 8.5% unemployment, $15 trillion in debt, and the marginalizat...

After going 17 rounds with the candidates who want to be President, Americans will hear from the man who already holds the job. Tonight's State of the Union address will be Barack Obama's third, and the public's reaction may determine if he has a fourth. For the President's team, who's trying to est...

Thanks to President Obama, the tens and thousands of pro-lifers who streamed into D.C. for today's March have another cause to fight: the future of religious liberty. Late Friday, the Obama administration marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade by cementing one of the biggest attacks on conscience rig...

Last night in Charleston, I had a ringside seat for what I thought was one of the better GOP debates in this election cycle. With the exception of the opening question, which I can only describe as awkward, it was a balanced discussion that delved into a broad range of issues--including social polic...

The United States is at a crossroads. Over the course of the next ten months, Americans will watch as the future of our country is debated--state by state, county by county, and town by town. In the 2012 presidential election, voters will make a fundamental decision that will have vast implications...

For once, we agree with Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Today's vote on the debt ceiling is a charade. As members started pouring in from the four corners of the country, the Minority Whip said what was on everyone's minds. "We need to be real," Hoyer told reporters. "The process that was set up .....

The Supreme Court giveth, and the Supreme Court taketh away. Just days after handing down one of the biggest victories for religious freedom in a half-century, the justices are back to ignoring the principles they upheld. Unlike last week, when it told the government to keep its nose out of church b...

You don't have to be superstitious to realize that Friday the 13th is shaping up to be particularly horrific for the U.S. economy. Yesterday, President Obama asked for another $1.2 trillion in borrowing power, cashing in his third and largest increase under the debt deal struck last August. Nothing...

Religious liberty has taken such a beating under this administration that people seem surprised when the principle is actually affirmed. And yesterday, the Supreme Court not only affirmed our first freedom, it sent a blistering message to the President to stop testing the churches' authority. In wha...

Rick Perry may not have won in New Hampshire, but the Governor still had plenty to celebrate after a ruling yesterday from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. After months of litigation, a three-judge panel brushed off a challenge to Texas's sonogram law that the Governor championed and paved the wa...

If you thought network TV was pushing the envelope now, hang on to your remotes! This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case that could send parents lunging for the channel changer. Ten years after "Law andamp; Order" showed a nude woman on its show, broadcasters are still fighting to turn pro...

Police may have arrested a New York City Councilman, but many argue it's the local churches that are being handcuffed. Last Thursday, 20 demonstrators--including pastor-Councilman Fernando Cabrera (D-Bronx)--blocked the entrance to the city's Law Department to protest a new Board of Education rule t...

The President may be gutting our national defense budget, but don't worry. We may not have money for weapons, but Homeland Security just bought enough snow cone machines to fight the next cold war. Yesterday, President Obama stood at the Pentagon's podium and announced steep new cuts to the U.S. Def...