1776 COALITION 07/31/2015

Priorities: House Leaves For Recess With No Vote To Defund Planned Parenthood The House is leaving for its summer recess until September 8 without voting on legislation to defund Planned Parenthood in the wake of the recent gruesome videos released of the abortion giant’s practice of harvesting the body parts of aborted... Read More Nancy Pelosi on Iran deal opponents: ‘Have they even read it?’ House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wondered Thursday whether opponents of President Obama’s Iran nuclear program agreement read the deal before coming out in opposition to it, and said she’s certain she can keep enough Democrats in line to sustain an... Read More Bernie-Mentum? Sanders hosts ‘house party’ for 100,000 Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told supporters they were making history as he live-streamed from a modest, packed, and steamy apartment in Washington, D.C on Wednesday night. Delivering remarks off a yellow legal pad balanced precariously on a wobbly music stand,... Read More CAIR SUING GUN SHOP OWNER FOR BANNING MUSLIMS IN WAKE OF CHATTANOOGA Florida’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is suing Florida Gun Supply owner Andrew Hallinan for banning Muslims from his business in the wake of Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s alleged July 16 attack on two separate military centers in... Read More Federal court blocks logging in largest national forest, Alaska officials fuming A federal appeals court has locked down America's largest national forest from logging, in a tight decision that reverses a Bush-era bid to open up the Alaska land and has state officials fuming. “[The] ruling is a disappointment and a... Read More POPE WARNS OF ‘GENOCIDE’ AS PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS RISES WORLDWIDE Christians may be the most persecuted group in the world, and their persecution is on the rise. As Islamic extremism takes hold and repressive governments step up their campaigns against Christianity, the Pope has been moved to warn of “a... Read More