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Mat Staver's Bizarre Justification For Maintaining The 'Nuclear Option'

After the Republican gains in last week's election, right-wing activists immediately sent a letter to Senate Republicans urging them not to re-institute the 60-vote threshold for overriding filibusters against judicial nominees when they take control of the Senate in the next term, after Democrats e

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Bob McDonnell Joins Liberty University's Jesse Helms School Of Government

Beset by legal troubles, former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has joined Liberty University as a visiting professor in government. In a press release yesterday, Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr.

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Barber & Akers: Christians Are Now The Victims Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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Staver: Obama Violating First Amendment by Affirming 'Immoral and Unhealthy' Homosexuality

Mat Staver and Shawn Akers of Liberty Counsel are incensed that a U.S Department of Agriculture newsletter [PDF] promotes an LGBT pride event, or as Staver called it, “the sexual anarchist event.” On Friday’s edition of Faith & Freedom, Staver said the newsletter is proof that the USDA “intimida