WASHINGTON — A new White House report that offers guidance on public/private partnerships between the government and faith-based groups leaves critical questions unanswered and does not resolve the issue of religious groups’ ability to discriminate in hiring and firing, church-state watchdogs said. The 50-page report, issued Friday (April 28), comes 18 months after President Obama…
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser praised the New York Police Department’s work Friday, saying the agency has struck an appropriate balance between keeping people safe and protecting their rights. “It’s not a trade-off between our security and our freedoms and our rights as citizens,” John Brennan said Friday in an appearance…
U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, who was recently criticized for saying the national debate over birth control coverage is “not about women,” issued a statement Friday calling on President Barack Obama to “distance himself” from the Muslim Brotherhood. The statement comes after the Egyptian political group met with “mid-level officials from the U.S. National Security Agency”…
After a month of sparring with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Gingrich has returned to more comfortable territory — criticizing President Obama with language more incendiary than his rivals would dare to use. In Georgia Tuesday, he called Obama “so pro-Islamic that [he] can’t even tell the truth about the people who are trying to…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday it has no control over how the New York Police Department spends millions of dollars in White House grants that helped pay for NYPD programs that put entire American Muslim neighborhoods under surveillance. In New York, the police commissioner said he wouldn’t apologize. The White House has no…
