March 3, 2017
Happy Friday from Washington, where conservatives want President Trump to stand up for religious freedom. Fred Lucas reports. The Ukraine war tears relationships apart, Nolan Peterson finds on the front. Kelsey Harkness highlights what appeals judges want to know about cakes for gay marriages. Plus: Rachel del Guidice on troubling questions about assisted suicide, Mike Gonzalez on Soros' meddling in a vulnerable nation, and Jason Snead on what the left ignores about voter fraud. Hmm. It's Employee Appreciation Day.
Macedonia is becoming emblematic of a battle in Europe between conservative parties that support traditional values and national sovereignty, and those—often funded by the liberal billionaire—with an ambitious agenda that includes liberal drug and sexual orientation policies as well as transnationalism.
In 2015, an administrative judge for the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries ruled Aaron and Melissa Klein discriminated against Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer on the basis of sexual orientation. They were ordered to pay $135,000 for physical, emotional, and mental damages.
"The real Russian scandal is that President Barack Obama's team used the pretext of Russian interference in the election to justify wiretaps and illegal leaks of the Trump team," says Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton, talking about Jeff Sessions, pictured above.
Valera Dudochkin is Russian. He moved to Ukraine in 1984 at the conclusion of his military service in the Red Army. Today, his mother and brother still live in Russia. His two adult children live 20 miles away across no man's land inside the separatist stronghold of Donetsk.
Conservatives want President Trump to move forward on an executive order that would roll back Obama-era regulations that targeted Catholic Charities, the Salvation Army, a military chaplain, Christian business owners, and others.
So far, five states plus the District of Columbia have legalized physician-assisted suicide. But 16 other states have introduced bills to allow it.
In Texas, Rosa Maria Ortega, a noncitizen, was found guilty on two counts of voting in the November 2012 general election and the 2014 Republican primary runoff.
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