Sunday
show 07-26-15
GOP
Senators lead push to allow States to impose Internet sales tax
Republicans
in the Senate are leading efforts to pass legislation that would
allow the states to impose a sales tax on online transactions. Sen.
Mike Enzi (R-WY) has proposed the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA),
which would allow states to "collect and remit sales and use
taxes with respect to remote sales.”
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Seattle
Mayor endorses plan to develop Sharia compliant mortgages
Seattle
Mayor Ed Murray has endorsed a recommendation by his affordable
housing committee to develop Sharia-compliant mortgages as a way to
help Muslims buy homes.
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Conservatives speak out against Federal mandatory minimum sentencing
Conservatives
gathered on Capitol Hill on Thursday to lay claim to the issue of
reforming the United States criminal system, including ending the
minimum mandatory sentencing laws that were passed by the Democrat
majority in Congress three decades ago.
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Conservative
groups offer alternative to new wave of political correctness on
campuses
A
new wave of progressivism and political correctness in U.S. schools
-- highlighted by “trigger warnings” and “safe zones” -- has
conservative groups fighting back on campuses across the country,
saying “students need to get both sides of the story.”
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Stephen
Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search
Anyway
This
week, famed physicist Stephen Hawking helped launch a major new
effort to search for signs of intelligent alien life in the cosmos,
even though he thinks it's likely that such creatures would try to
destroy humanity.
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Guidelines
for LGBT Refugee Resettlement Include ‘LGBT-Affirming Places of
Worship’
The Obama administration has introduced homosexual rights
policies across federal agencies, including at the Health and Human
Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement website, which links to a
guide that rates placement providers and communities on LGBT-friendly
services, including having “culturally competent mental health
providers” and “LGBT-affirming places of worship.”
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Satanic
Temple sees Arkansas as possible monument location
An
Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that will rid the Capitol grounds of a
religious monument has simultaneously scuttled the plans of a group
advocating for a Satanic statue there, and they now hope to enshrine
the deity outside the Arkansas Statehouse.
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USA contraception ruling
The
state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even
if the pharmacy's owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals
court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgments on
whether religious believers can opt out of providing
services.
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