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A criminal investigator holds a cotton swab and a glass tube for collecting a DNA sample.

Swabbing suspects

Supreme Court |  The high court hears a challenge to law enforcement DNA collection as a means to solve past crimes

Chip Mellor
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Regulation slayer

Q&A |  Governments regularly set up arbitrary barriers to entrepreneurship. Chip Mellor and the Institute for Justice break them down

Senate Republican Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Putting the brakes on abortion trafficking

Abortion |  Sens. Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, and Orrin Hatch introduced a bill today that would give states the right to enforce parental notification laws across…

The Romeike family

Christian homeschoolers losing deportation fight

Homeschooling |  A family homeschooling safely in rural Tennessee may be forced to return to their native Germany, where the parents likely face huge fines and criminal…

ALL TOO COMMON: Pallbearers carry the body of Joseph Briggs following a funeral in Chicago. Briggs, 16, was shot during a drive-by shooting while he was sitting on his front porch with his sister—one of nine people killed and 46 wounded by gunfire in Chicago during the June 9 weekend.
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Loaded questions

Gun Rights |  The mass shootings that have prompted a national debate over gun control are tragic—but rare. What about the gun violence that takes the most American…

Customers walk to a Hobby Lobby store in Dallas on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012.

Government shouldn't define 'church'

Healthcare Mandate |  Under pressure from religious and conservative groups, the Obama administration has offered another compromise on the issue of birth control coverage within…

The Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Congress shall make 'no law'

Religious Liberty |  How many people realize how simple the First Amendment to the Constitution is? It contains only 46 words. Here it is. Congress shall make no law respecting an…

Kenneth Miller, right, walks with his wife to federal court

Mennonite pastor refuses to be a 'rat'

Law |  The Amish Mennonite pastor who helped a woman and her daughter flee from Virginia to Nicaragua during a 2009 custody battle has refused to testify against…

Thousands gather at the Minnesota Capitol building in St. Paul on Jan. 22, 1973, to protest the Supreme Court's <i>Roe v. Wade</i> decision.

Roe v. Wade at 40

Roe v. Wade |  At last week's signing of "executive actions" designed to combat gun violence in America, President Obama, flanked by schoolchildren, said, "… when it comes…

Participants at a National Gun Appreciation Day Rally Saturday in Salt Lake City.

The hunting amendment?

Law |  In the wake of massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., the movie theatre shootings in Aurora, Colo., and a string of similar incidents too long to…

Stanford Law professor Michael McConnell

‘To litigate and protect’

Religion |  Stanford Law opens the country’s first religious liberty legal clinic with the goal to train students and educate the general public on the issues at hand

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant

Vocal and organized

Gun Rights |  Gun rights advocates, including state governmental and law enforcement officials, voice their opposition to President Obama’s gun control plan

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