Was football announcer fired for religious views on traditional marriage?

Craig James, former FOX sports football announcer was fired shortly after publicly stating his support for traditional marriage.  Was it a case of religious discrimination?  The state of Texas announced it was launching an investigation of James' claim it was religious discrimination.

The Texas Workforce Commission is launching an investigation into whether James suffered from religious discrimination when he was fired shortly after he said in a televised debate he supports traditional marriage.

The state agency, which which has authority over such employment matters in the Lone Star State, issued a “charge” document announcing its inquiry Thursday.

...As explained in detail in that report, when James was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2012, he had been asked during a televised debate about his views on marriage, to which he responded that he believes marriage exclusively to be one man with one woman. That view is dictated by his Christian faith, and is a provision in the Texas Constitution.

Fox Sports fired James from his job as an on-air sports analyst days after this was brought to the network’s attention in 2013.

More evidence that Obamacare isn't working.

Here's more evidence that Obamacare isn't working out as planned, e.g. attracting uninsured to the health care exchanges.

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

War on poverty: winning, losing, making things worse?

Here's an interesting article by John Goodman on the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's announced war on poverty.    Goodman says poverty rates haven't dropped much from when the war started.  Going from 18% of population to 15% despite spending $15 trillion since its inception and now $1 trillion annually.  He argues we're in fact made things worse because the programs have undermined the factors which make it unlikely someone will remain poverty.

California Governor isn't too excited about legalizing marijuana.

It was interesting seeing California Governor Jerry Brown hesitating on legalizing marijuana in California. California legalized medical marijuana which has created headaches for the state.

Brown is for all things liberal so when he hesitates reality maybe hitting home.  As he says, "how many people can get stoned and still have a great state or a great nation?”

What the media isn't reporting on Arizona religious liberty bill and Brewer's veto.

Here are couple of great pieces on the Arizona religious liberty bill.  Information one of course didn't hear in the general media treatment of the controversy.

One by Rich Lowry of National Review printed by Politico Magazine.

The other in the Federalist.

It's a shame when the media no longer seeks to give both sides of an issue.