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More than 2,500 evangelical and ministry leaders from a range of denominations have signed a letter to President Obama voicing their opposition to the administration’s new mandate requiring that all health insurance plans contain contraceptive coverage. (more)

Democratic-leaning blocs of minority, youth and unmarried voters could provide a majority of votes for the first time in the 2012 election, but their historically low turnout will likely reduce their percentage of the vote, says a new survey by a Democratic-affiliated advocacy group. (more)

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann spoke to a crowd of conservative advocates at at the Family Research Council on Monday, focusing on her commitment to the Constitution and social issues. (more)

GOP presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul took first in a presidential straw poll Saturday at the 2011 Values Voter Summit, an annual conference of social conservatives by the Family Research Council. (more)

GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor voiced concern Friday about the “growing mobs” of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters that have sprung up in major cities across America. (more)

Though it remains unclear whether Chris Christie will seek presidency in 2012, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says the New Jersey governor’s support for an anti-bullying initiative could discourage social conservatives from voting for him if he does run. (more)

Freshman Sen. Marco Rubio’s statements against short-term spending measures are part of a small, but burgeoning, conservative rebellion against the three-week spending bill introduced Friday by GOP House leaders. (more)

A column written by Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project, has found its way into an unlikely place — “People’s World,” the official online newspaper of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). (more)

A conservative group launched Monday with one goal in mind: drafting Republican Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana to run for president in 2012. (more)

Right on Crime responds to Mr. Weeks’s article here. (more)

The conservative coalition has always been unstable. And homosexuality may be the issue on which it shatters. (more)

One: Breastfeeding improves boys’ literacy  (more)

Abortion may soon be more readily available than ever before, thanks to a new requirement from Planned Parenthood that more of its centers nationwide offer the service. At least one local chapter so far has decided to withdraw from the network rather than comply. (more)

The Family Research Council (FRC) ran a full-page open letter advertisement in print editions of Politico and of the Washington Examiner on Wednesday calling for a “civil debate” with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the liberal group that labeled the FRC and other social conservative organizations as “hate groups” in early December. (more)

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says it will not back down from its decision to label the Family Research Council and other socially conservative groups as hate groups, on par with the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations, for their views about homosexuality. (more)

The day Ohio lawmakers were set to vote, two dozen shapely young women sporting tight pink t-shirts filed into the House chamber. The battle was already lost – they didn’t need a whip count to tell them that – but they weren’t about to go down without a fight. Or at least a well-executed publicity stunt. (more)

Pro-life groups are voicing opposition to the Women Veterans Bill of Rights, which they say could result in the federal funding of abortions in military hospitals. (more)

The Southern Poverty Law Center this week labeled as “hate groups” several political and religious organizations that campaign against same-sex marriage and, the center says, engage in “repeated, groundless name-calling” against gays and lesbians. (more)

One headache President Obama has not had to deal with is anti-draft demonstrations. (more)

Republicans, who were expected to be overwhelmed by internal divisions and Tea Party discord, have navigated the first set of rapids with surprising ease following the midterm elections, while Democrats have suffered a level of chaos that most did not foresee. (more)