Now that Roseanne Barr, doyenne of her own blue-collar 1980s sitcom, has announced her bid for the Green Party presidential nomination, she may have given the 2012 race just the lighter touch it could use. On the other hand, if her paperwork is any indication, she is quite serious about the bid. “I will barnstorm [...]
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A second teacher pulled from a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School was arrested for investigation of lewd acts on two girls on Friday, just days after a third-grade teacher from the same campus was charged with lewd acts involving photographing nearly two dozen children for sexual thrills, authorities said. Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Parker said 49-year-old [...]
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Nevada will be an easy win for Mitt Romney on Saturday, based on his performance in the 2008 Republican presidential race. Even with Romney coming off second best to John McCain in many states elsewhere, Romney easily won the Nevada caucuses, with 51.1% to Ron Paul’s 13.7% and John McCain’s 12.75%. The reason: Mormons. Although [...]
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In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of depression. He is surrounded by all 44 presidents. In the forefront, purposefully ignoring the depressed man is President Obama, whose right foot is stepping on the Constitution. James Madison is next to Obama, pleading with him to [...]
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc., riding a powerful wave of Internet indignation, raised $3 million in reaction to Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision, reversed today, to end grants to Planned Parenthood. The dispute between Planned Parenthood and the breast- cancer group Komen, two of the largest health advocacy groups for U.S. women, [...]
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” February 2, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: A fiery showdown over Operation Fast and Furious. And today on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Eric Holder vigorously denying a Justice Department cover-up, and Republican [...]
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The founder and chief executive for Susan G. Komen for the Cure on Thursday flatly rejected accusations that the organization caved to political pressure in cutting ties to Planned Parenthood, a move that has ignited a firestorm of controversy. In one of her first live comments since the Tuesday announcement, Ambassador Nancy G. Brinker told [...]
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Well, this is pretty embarrassing for the Occupy movement. In Providence Rhode Island last week, about two dozen members of the Occupy Movement shouted down a Catholic priest at a pro-life rally, and threw condoms on Catholic school girls for good measure. The Occupiers did this the day after the local Catholic Bishop, Thomas Tobin, [...]
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Drug maker Pfizer Inc. recalled about a million packs of birth-control pills that weren’t packaged correctly, which raised the risk of unplanned pregnancies among women who relied on the pills. Pulled from shelves were Lo/Ovral-28 pills and their Norgestrel generic versions, which doctors have been prescribing for years to tens of thousands of women. The [...]
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A Transportation Security Administration agent stole $5,000 in cash from a passenger’s jacket as he was going through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a string of thefts that has embarrassed the agency. Alexandra Schmid took the cash from a Bangladeshi passenger’s jacket as it went along an [...]
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What Would Jesus … Deduct? President Obama offered a new line of reasoning for hiking taxes on the rich on Thursday, saying at the National Prayer Breakfast that his policy proposals are shaped by his religious beliefs. Obama said that as a person who has been “extraordinarily blessed,” he is willing to give up some [...]
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Donald Trump said Thursday he’s endorsing Mitt Romney because of his position on catching up to China’s economic growth and because he believes Romney can out-debate President Obama. “You look at what’s going on with China, you look at what’s going on with the other OPEC nations and how they are absolutely destroying this country, [...]
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The Washington state Senate approved 28-21 Wednesday a same-sex marriage bill, handing advocates their biggest victory of the 2012 legislative session and all but ensure legalized gay marriage in the Evergreen State. “A lot of people are just stunned, particularly people in my age group and older,” said state Sen. Ed Murray, who spoke before the vote at [...]
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Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and other Democrats in the minority of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have made an attempt to whitewash apparent felonies committed by the Department of Justice during Operation Fast and Furious: Democrats looking into Operation Fast and Furious say a yearlong investigation has turned up no evidence that the [...]
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) threatened Tuesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department did not provide certain documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. In a letter to Holder, Issa wrote that “this committee will have no alternative but to move forward with proceedings to [...]
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