The administration is encouraging faith-based organizations to engaged in a type of "social entrepreneurship". Bush, who says both faith-based and secular groups play a vital role in the difficult task of bringing relief to the distressed and impoverished. But the president's budget proposals say something else when it comes to the nation's fight against poverty.

On May 10 Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) told a summit meeting of nonprofit groups that tax cuts and the proposed repeal of the estate tax threaten federally funded programs for housing, health care, arts, the environment and more. For details see href="http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050510/NEWS 10/505100308/1017">THE DAILY JOURNAL.

For years, church-state separation advocates seethed each time Washington sent money to repair a historic structure that also held religious services, such as Boston's Old North Church or Rhode Island's Touro Synagogue. But not until now - with Congress' decision to spend $10 million to restore California missions that also hold Masses - have these advocates found what they consider the perfect "test case" to challenge the practice. Their recent legal effort to block the $10 million expenditure has a purpose that goes beyond the borders of the Golden State. For the whole scoop...

The Government Accountability Office will investigate whether the Bush administration broke the law when it paid a syndicated columnist to help its pro-marriage efforts. Click here for the full story. Also, check out a Watcher article on the Maggie Gallagher case.