Family Research Council

President Owe-bama: Debt Soars over Two-Year Span

America owes Congress a huge debt--but not of gratitude. Based on the latest reports, the last two years have been expensive ones for the federal government, and it looks like U.S. families will once again be bearing the brunt. CNSNews's Terry Jeffrey crunched the numbers and found that the federal debt didn't just climb over the last two ... (more)

For GOP, a Clean Bill of Stealth

The snowquester was a good backdrop to yet another snow job on conservatives. For the last month, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has warned conservative groups that to successfully negotiate the government's short-term funding measure (or continuing resolution) with Senate Democrats, the House would have to forgo any additional attachments. ... (more)

The Golf War

Most Americans already felt locked out of the White House on an ideological level--and now they're being physically shut out too! Determined to manufacture some kind of crisis in the sequester, President Obama is canceling White House tours before D.C.'s busiest tourist season. Due to "staffing reductions," senior officials say, the White House no ... (more)

Halligan's Island

If there is one thing that President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid share, it is their penchant for audacity. Caitlin Halligan was first nominated in 2010 to fill a vacancy on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and has been re-nominated four times since then. A cloture vote to move forward with her nomination failed with bipartisan ... (more)

Better SAFE Than Sorry

If the sequester was supposed to grind government to a halt, you wouldn't know it by the volumes coming out of Health and Human Services (HHS). On the first afternoon of the President's doomsday, HHS was unusually productive--pumping out more than 700 new pages of ObamaCare regulations. The deluge, one of several recent bursts of rule-making, ... (more)

Obama Jilts Voters at the Altar

When the President promised change, most people assumed he was talking about America--not his own policy positions. But after yesterday's decision on California's Proposition 8, the Potomac may actually be less fluid than this White House's stance on marriage. After years of insisting the debate is a state issue, the President peeled back another ... (more)

Love Is a Money-Splendored Thing

The media has always wanted to claim neutrality on marriage, but this week, they've lost the right. After years of spinning the debate on same-sex "marriage," one of the country's largest news agencies dropped the facade of impartiality and signed a brief to strike down the federal marriage law. Along with 277 other companies, the Reuters ... (more)

Obama's ICE Capades

With 48 hours to go until the sequester kicks in, the President is doing his best to make his doomsday threats a self-fulfilling prophecy. For two weeks, the White House has predicted the $85 billion in cuts would lead to everything from spoiled meat to criminals wandering the streets--and yesterday, his administration worked overtime to make the ... (more)

Byer's Remorse

When it comes to abortions, Planned Parenthood won't take "no" for an answer. Just ask Ayanna Byer. If it weren't for the quick thinking of an emergency room doctor, she might not be here to hold them accountable for their ruthless approach to women. Byer's horror story started at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, where, seconds away ... (more)

The Don of a New Era

President Obama isn't the only one who has "evolved." So has the U.S. Justice Department, whose radical transformation has resulted in more laws being attacked by the administration than defended. Nowhere is that more evident than America's marriage statute, which the President shrugged off back in February 2011 and unilaterally declared ... (more)