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Christian entrepreneurs Joe and Ann Baker are influencing the pro-life movement without ever exiting their vehicles. Save the Storks has quite literally mobilized the pro-life movement by parking buses outside abortion clinics. Shortly after their engagement in 2011, the Bakers founded Save the Storks, a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging abortion-minded women to choose life….

A group representing businesses that speed monetary transactions between consumers has taken a legal stand against Operation Choke Point, the secretive Obama administration effort to financially starve industries that are politically out of favor. The Third Party Payment Processors Association filed a legal brief Friday in support of a lawsuit that challenges the Justice Department…

California is the first state in the nation to enact a statewide ban on plastic shopping bags, taking a concept that had been limited to cities and broadening it in new ways. “This bill is a step in the right direction—it reduces the torrent of plastic polluting our beaches, parks and even the vast ocean itself,”…

Nabiha Islam may be a doctor now, but it was only a few short years ago that she was a college student working at Dairy Queen. Islam, a recent medical school graduate, decided to send a thank-you note to her former boss, Yvonne Lavasidis, for her support during her education: Dear Yvonne, Well, I’m a…

The system that governs Hong Kong–an autonomous city that belongs to China–is called “one country, two systems.” But before China had a chance to fail to deliver the “two systems” part of that slogan, some Hong Kong residents left for brighter places, fearful of being overshadowed by Beijing’s cloud. A week after Hong Kong erupted…

Public-sector unions took forced dues from more than 250,000 public employees in 2013, siphoning away taxpayer money to support the unions’ shared goal of bigger government. Some, but not all, of the labor unions that take mandatory “agency fees” from public employees must report the number of agency fee payers to the U.S. Department of…

For cab companies and limo services, ridesharing startups such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar are about as welcome as a blown tire on a crowded freeway. This chart focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area may go a long way toward explaining why. Dubbed the "Uber Effect,” the chart, presented recently at a municipal transportation agency…