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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May 1881 US explorers approached Jeannette Island and Henrietta Island and claimed them for the United States. According to some US individuals, including the group State Department Watch, eight Arctic islands currently controlled by Russia, including Wrangel Island, are claimed by the United States. However, according to the United States Department of State no such claim exists. The [...]
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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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Valentine’s Day came early last week for the American Federation of Teachers. Last Monday, President Barack Obama unveiled his budget for 2013 which contains $3.8 trillion in spending – but not a dime of support for the very successful D.C. voucher program. The AFT has long opposed the Opportunity Scholarship Program (the voucher plan’s official name) because it allows low-income students in the District [...]
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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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Rep. Ron Paul (R.-Texas.), who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told Candy Crowley on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that social conservatism is “a losing position” for the Republican Party. “Do you–are you uncomfortable–certainly Rick Santorum is the one who has been in the forefront of some of this talk on social [...]
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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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North Carolina officials have said there was a misunderstanding when a preschooler’s homemade lunch was sent home for not meeting certain nutritional requirements, but now a second mother from the same school has come forward exclusively to The Blaze to say the same thing happened to her daughter. Diane Zambrano says her 4-year-old daughter, Jazlyn, is [...]
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“Think the contraception decision was bad?” asks the Wall Street Journal. Well, just wait. It will get much worse. Offended by President Obama’s decision to force health insurers to pay for contraception and surgical sterilization? It gets worse: In the future, thanks to ObamaCare, the government will issue such health edicts on a routine basis—and largely insulated [...]
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A senior Democratic senator Thursday shot down an attempt by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to call up an amendment cutting off all U.S. aid to Egypt unless the authorities allow Americans being detained there to leave the country. Paul delivered a strong-worded, five-and-a-half minute statement on the Senate floor, condemning what he called “trumped-up political [...]
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Townhall columnist Mike Adams tells us about a former student of his who used the opportunity to ask Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor a question which all lawyers and judges should ask themselves before they even start their career: “What should American culture and society look to as the source for just laws?” Sotomayor paused for a [...]
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Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth control, tubal ligation and morning-after abortifacients — all of which violate church doctrine [...]
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President Obama rallied with union workers at a Boeing plant in Washington, but he praised the manufacturing conducted by Boeing in South Carolina, even though his National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tried to close the South Carolina plant at the behest of the Washington union workers. “So this company is a great example of what [...]
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Barbara Boxer, the leading pro-abortion member of the U.S. Senate, made some comments in a recent MSNBC interview that are sparking outrage across the Internet today. Boxer essentially says the right to insurance trumps religious rights and freedoms. The comments came during an interview concerning the controversial mandate pro-abortion President Barack Obama put in place [...]
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