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 [...]
Full Story »
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, [...]
Full Story »
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 [...]
Full Story »
Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham and a prominent evangelical leader in his own right, waded into contentious waters Tuesday when asked for his views on the religious beliefs of President Obama and the GOP hopefuls. Graham, the CEO and president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, told a Morning Joe panel [...]
Full Story »
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 [...]
Full Story »
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 [...]
Full Story »
On Jan. 4, 2007, Democrat Deval Patrick was sworn in as the 71st governor of Massachusetts, and Willard Mitt Romney — the 70th governor– began running for the Republican nomination for president. The next two weeks may decide if he gets it. Tomorrow night in Arizona, Romney and his three remaining challengers for the GOP [...]
Full Story »
Rick Santorum’s victories on Feb. 7 kicked off a month-long trial period, which will be capped by Super Tuesday on March 6, to convince Republican voters that he is not only the best conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, but also a viable general-election candidate. Midway through Santorum’s moment, it’s tough to tell if he’s thriving [...]
Full Story »
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped broker a “special arrangement” between Congress and Freddie Mac in which the semi-private mortgage giant continued to enjoy subsidies as long as it made housing more “affordable” for low-income and minority borrowers, according to Freddie Mac insiders who spoke to WND on condition of anonymity. In fact, Gingrich championed [...]
Full Story »
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 [...]
Full Story »
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, [...]
Full Story »
The Republican candidate says the president has ‘a worldview that elevates the Earth above man,’ mentioning the global warming debate. All the GOP contenders will meet Wednesday in a debate. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum denied Sunday that he had questioned President Obama’s Christian faith, but said the president held an environmental belief “that elevates [...]
Full Story »
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, [...]
Full Story »
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 [...]
Full Story »
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 [...]
Full Story »