Scott Kaufman

A group of Texans attempting to build a memorial to the Confederate war dead in Orange claim that the controversy around their plan to fly 32 Confederate battle flags -- eight prominent ones, and another 24 to represent the Texas regiments that fought in the war -- is "overblown," The Washington Post's Peter Holley reports.

A Tennessee pastor valiantly attempted to convince the state House and Senate not to declare the Bible to be the state's official book -- but to no avail, The Tennessean's David Boucher reports.

The Texas Association of Business and state Democrats stood side-by-side yesterday to declare that proposed amendments to the state's constitution that resemble Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act would "devastate economic development" in the state, The Texas Tribune's Edgar Walters reported.

On last night's episode of The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore went after states that are attempting to limit what items people can spend their welfare and food stamps on.

A former Department of Justice official went on Fox & Friends over the weekend to discuss the passage of a Madison, Wisconsin city ordinance that prohibits businesses from discriminating against atheists.