1776 COALITION EXTRA 06/29/2015

Next battle: 10th Amendment vs SCOTUS Pivotal Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage and Obamacare are reverberating in the states, where some officials are slow-walking overnight changes to their marriage laws and others want to retool their approaches to health care reform now that federal subsidies... Read More Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country [caption id="attachment_65725" align="alignright" width="300"] The American flag flies in the wind in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 22, 2015. Several key opinions are still to be released at the court nears the end of its term... Read More Walker, Fiorina stand out at weekend conservative summit This weekend, I attended the Centennial Institute of Colorado Christian University's annual Western Conservative Summit in Denver. The red-eye flight on Saturday night to D.C. gave me plenty of time to sort my impressions before appearing on CNN's "State of... Read More TEXAS AG: STATE WORKERS CAN DENY LICENSES TO GAY COUPLES LUBBOCK, Texas -- Texas' conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton called the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a "lawless ruling" and said state workers can cite their religious objections in denying marriage licenses. He warned... Read More Mississippi in limbo over high-court’s same-sex marriage ruling Amber Hamilton and Annice Smith were the first same-sex couple to wed in Mississippi, and nearly the last, at least for a while. About an hour after the pair filled out the requisite paperwork, handed over $21 for a marriage... Read More Greek Banks And Stock Exchange In Shutdown Banks in Greece and the country's stock exchange will be shut all week in a sign of the deepening financial crisis. The drastic move comes after people rushed to withdraw their cash amid panic ahead of the referendum on bailout... Read More