Archive for 'Politics'
Obama, Who Ended D.C.’s Voucher Program, Talks About Improving Education for Children ‘Born in the Wrong Neighborhood’
Friday, July 30, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration is phasing out a program that allows underprivileged children to get scholarships to expensive private schools in Washington, D.C., such as Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama girls attend, where tuition runs about $31,000 a year.
Nevertheless, Obama on Thursday spoke about his “obligation to lift [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2010 under Culture, Education, National News, Politics.
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Obama Creating Back-Door for Amnesty of Illegals?
The Washington Times
by Stephen Dinan
With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants – what a draft government memo said could be “a non-legislative version of amnesty.”
The memo, addressed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and written by four [...]
Posted: July 30th, 2010 under Liberty, National News, Politics.
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Ethics chairwoman disputes reports that she met privately with Rangel
By Susan Crabtree and Molly K. Hooper | The Hill
House ethics committee chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Tuesday disputed media reports stating she met privately with Rep. Charles Rangel to negotiate a deal with the embattled New York Democrat.
Republicans are privately threatening to derail any deal after several media accounts reported that Lofgren met with [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under Politics.
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Only in Washington Is This Transparency
Debra J. Saunders
The Senate Democrats’ “DISCLOSE” Act — “DISCLOSE” stands for “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections” — represents perhaps the baldest, if failed, power grab attempted this year. But you wouldn’t guess it reading news stories on the bill.
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under Commentaries, Culture, Liberty, Politics.
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Pro-Life Groups Seek Probe Into Kagan’s Clinton-Era Role in Partial Birth Abortion Debate
Thursday, July 29, 2010
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
Washington (CNSNews.com) – More than 30 pro-life organizations are calling on senators to investigate Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s record with regards to partial-birth abortion while serving as a Clinton administration attorney.
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under Culture, Health & Life, Liberty, National News, Politics, Religion.
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Michelle Obama’s Request for Birthday Wishes for Her Husband Links to Donation Page
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Pete Winn, Senior Writer/Editor
(CNSNews.com) – It seems like a nice gesture – an e-mail message from a loving wife, urging thousands of people to join her in wishing her husband a happy 49th birthday by signing an electronic birthday card.
But in Washington, D.C., nothing is that simple.
The wife, in this case, is First lLdy Michelle [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2010 under Culture, National News, Politics.
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INTERPOL Now Has Police Power over YOU
By Marilyn M. Brannan, Assoc. Editor
IRN/USA News
July 23, 2010
Last December, when a majority of Americans were caught up in holiday preparations (and probably paying less attention than usual to the political machinations in Washington), President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), operating on our soil, immune from [...]
Posted: July 26th, 2010 under Commentaries, International News, Liberty, National News, Politics.
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