The Internal Revenue Service on Friday admitted and apologized for "inappropriate" targeting of Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for tax-exempt status violations during the 2012 election. Republicans have called for investigations.

The U.S. Department of Education recently announced that it will no longer use the terms "mother" and "father" when collecting information about a student's legal parents when those parents apply for federal student aid. Instead of using the words "mother" and "father," the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) will use "Parent 1" and "Parent 2."

In a move tagged by Democrats as "political gamesmanship," the Republican controlled House of Representatives on Thursday passed The Full Faith and Credit Act which Democrats and President Barack Obama argue is "default by another name."

About 30 pounds lighter from weight-loss surgery in February, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently touted his conservative Republican stripes and danced around buzz that he might run for the presidency of the United States in 2016.

Libby Anne, a blogger for the atheist channel of Patheos, has accused the Home School Legal Defense Association of protecting child abusers. HSLDA has responded that it does not condone nor defend child abuse and has only been concerned with legal issues regarding homeschooling.

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have set a May 22 deadline in which they expect public health officials from all 50 states and Washington, D.C. to provide them with "details on state licensing of abortion clinics and providers, information on revoked licenses, state inspections of clinics and disciplinary actions," so they can "examine how each state regulates and monitors abortion clinics and protects the health and safety of women."

Left-leaning evangelical leader and same-sex marriage supporter Jim Wallace warned on Wednesday that tangling gay rights with immigration reform legislation currently being debated in the Senate would be the wrong thing to do at this time, and gay rights advocates are not happy with his comments.

The Louisiana Supreme Court struck down on Tuesday the state's new school choice law championed by Gov. Bobby Jindal. The state constitution forbids the use of public money for private schools, the court ruled.

With Delaware legalizing gay marriage yesterday, the total number of states to now legally recognize such unions is eleven, nearly doubling the number of states in which same-sex marriage was legal last year.

Reject the voices that warn against government tyranny, President Barack Obama told Ohio State University graduates Monday. The commencement speech has helped bring into stark relief one of the main differences between conservatives and liberals over the proper role of government.