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Watch out! Your child’s toy gun may be outlawed. State lawmakers in Michigan are “reviewing legislation that targets the use of certain toy guns. A planned proposal before the Senate would make it a crime to possess a toy gun that has its required markings removed or by having a real gun that is made [...]
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Comments unearthed from a 2008 speech about Satan’s influence on America made Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum the target of derision and mockery today, but talk-radio host Michael Savage contends the former Pennsylvania senator is right, and his beliefs should only help his chances for the White House this fall. “I think Santorum is right, [...]
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During a recent Fox News Channel debate about the Obama administration’s tax policies, Democrat Bob Beckel raised the issue of “fairness.” He pointed out that a child born to a poor woman in the Bronx enters the world with far worse prospects than a child born to an affluent couple in Connecticut. No one can [...]
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White House press secretary Jay Carney first says Republicans “forced” President Obama to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Later in his press briefing, Carney says Obama didn’t turn down the pipeline. “In terms of Keystone, as you all know, the history here is pretty clear. And the fact is because Republicans decided [...]
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Unemployment in the U.S. rose to nine percent in mid-February, up from 8.3 percent a month earlier, according to a new Gallup survey. The polling company said this suggests that it is “premature” to assume the economy will not feature prominently in the 2012 election season. Gallup figures typically provide an indication of what the [...]
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The geographic concentration of much of President Obama’s political support in a few large Blue States and urban areas means that he could be defeated for re-election this November even while winning the popular vote. What few seem to have seriously considered so far is how daunting the present shape of the political battlefield actually [...]
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Evangelical minister Franklin Graham — son of famed evangelist Billy Graham — said he “can not answer” whether President Obama is a Christian and that most Christians would “not recognize Mormonism” during an appearance Tuesday morning on MSNBC. But Graham said he was confident that Rick Santorum was a Christian because of his stance on [...]
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Thousands of pastors and evangelical leaders are joining Roman Catholics who oppose President Barack Obama’s contraceptive coverage mandate. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says more than 2,500 evangelicals have signed a letter urging President Obama to reverse the requirement that church-affiliated groups carry insurance providing free birth control, including “morning-after” pills and sterilization. The [...]
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Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), less than two years in office, quickly made a national mark by shining a bright light on the deeply troubling case of Operation Fast and Furious, the gun-running scandal that led to the murder of Border Agent Brian Terry in Arizona in December 2009. The lawyer from Eagle, Idaho, who has [...]
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Today it is contraception and the morning-after pill. Tomorrow it will be kosher slaughter, or matrilineal descent, or circumcision, or other matters of existential importance to Jewish observance. If the Obama administration gets away with forcing Catholic institutions to step across lines of life and death in the name of “health,” the federal government will [...]
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Or maybe Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels and Paul Ryan. In the Republican presidential primary race, enthusiasm frequently turns toward the candidates not in the race. And as the August Republican national convention hastily sneaks up on the field, the fact that one candidate hasn’t yet run away with momentum has the media, pundits, [...]
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A few days ago, MSNBC made it official: The cable station fired Pat Buchanan from his regular gig as a commentator on various programs, including, most usually, Morning Joe. Buchanan made his dismissal public with the following widely reprinted editorial, which he wrote for the website of The American Conservative, the paleo-con magazine where he [...]
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels attacked President Obama on Sunday, characterizing his first term as a “failed presidency” and saying the president was “AWOL” on debt reduction. The election will be “a choice between [Obama] and a future of certain decline and indebtedness, and the Republican Party,” Daniels said on CNN’s State of the Union. Daniels, [...]
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The American Life League, or ALL, has seen enough of Planned Parenthood’s materials for children to conclude the nation’s leading abortion provider is deliberately pushing kids toward sexual activity in order to drive up its business. ALL, which calls itself the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life education organization in the United States, has produced a video [...]
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My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous. The calls for my firing began almost immediately with [...]
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