House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team are engaged in a cynical attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of voters on the issue of defunding Obamacare, and they are hoping no one back home notices. It would be more honest if members openly embraced the law that he is enabling, rather than engaging in this pathetic shell game.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has been working hard to raise achievement levels for students in his state by expanding choices in the academic marketplace. Standing in Jindal’s way? The U.S. Department of Justice — which filed a lawsuit last month seeking to block Louisiana’s recently expanded choice program on the grounds it might increase “racial identifiability” at failing, government-run schools.

President Obama, true to his ambition to “fundamentally transform America” has made the U.S. appear weak and unwilling to support its allies around the world. As a result, many erstwhile allies of the U.S. have felt alienated, used and abused by the American president and have withdrawn their support – especially Britain and NATO – over the Syrian situation. All this could be construed as the utter incompetence of the Obama administration but I fear it may well be one more deliberate step in President Barack Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform America” to that of a weak European style nation state.

The Family Research Council calls our attention to a new publication by Dr. E. Calvin Beisner on “Social Justice: How Good Intentions Undermine Justice and Gospel.” With all the misinformation out there on charity, welfare, the U.S. Constitution and the Bible, this is a must-read for every American who calls themselves a Christian.

As you know, a truly free press can be a mortal enemy to tyranny. Dictators and oligarchies throughout modern history have commandeered the press to kill its power to inform the people of their evil schemes. America is no exception to this. The radical leftists currently in power in Washington are not content to have only the “mainstream,” corporate media under their control, because the new media that have arisen in recent years have become influential enough to cause problems for them.