Posts Tagged ‘news’
Ed Meese: GOP Candidates Should Embrace Reagan’s 4-Part ‘Magic Formula’
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Edwin Meese, a longtime adviser to Ronald Reagan who served as attorney general in Reagan’s administration, told CNSNews.com on Thursday that the Republican presidential candidates should adopt Reagan’s 4-part “magic formula” for economic growth—which includes across-the-board tax cuts, regulatory [...]
DOJ Memo Changes Nothing, Obama Appointments Still Unconstitutional
IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY, ACLJ The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel has just released a memo backing President Obama’s “recess” appointments. The memo, authored by an Obama political appointee who herself was confirmed by the U.S. Senate, claims that “the President has the authority under the Recess Appointments [...]
Fraud, Waste In DHS Program To Protect High-Risk Urban Areas
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES A scandalous Homeland Security program that allocates well over half a billion dollars annually to help high-risk urban areas protect against terrorism is plagued with rampant fraud, waste and abuse that’s laid out in a scathing federal audit this week. Known as the Urban Areas Security Initiative [...]
40% of Pregnancies in New York City Still Aborted
New York City has the highest abortion rate in the nation — nearly double the national average of 23 %. LIFENEWS.COM The foundation that released shocking abortion numbers from New York City last year — turning it into what observers called the abortion capital of the Untied States — has new figures from the Big Apple. They haven’t [...]
Christmas Behind Bars for Pakistani Death Row Christians
PATRICK GOODENOUGH, CNSNEWS.COM As Christians celebrate their savior’s birth on Sunday, they are being urged to remember persecuted fellow believers unable to enjoy the day with their families, including death row prisoners Asia Bibi of Pakistan and Youcef Nadarkhani of Iran, both of whom will be spending their third Christmas behind [...]
86 House Republicans Vote Against $1 Trillion-Plus Bill
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Eighty-six conservative House Republicans broke ranks and opposed the $1.041 trillion 2012 megabus appropriations bill on Friday, forcing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to rely on Democratic support to pass the measure. The bill passed 296-121 with 147 Republicans and 149 Democrats supporting the [...]
McConnell Urges President to Join Republicans in Support of Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs
LIBERTY ALERTS, MCCONNELL.SENATE.GOV ‘And since I still haven’t heard a good reason from the White House as to why they would block it, I’m hopeful the President will do the right thing—and get this crucial project underway. The only thing standing between thousands of American workers, and the good jobs this project will provide, is [...]
Obama Religious Freedom Initiative Called Unfeasible & Naive
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The State Department on Monday launched three days of closed-door talks with representatives of international organizations and several dozen countries with the stated aim of promoting religious freedom and tolerance while ensuring that freedom of expression is not harmed in the process. U.S. [...]
Obama Invokes Teddy Roosevelt
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Invoking former President Teddy Roosevelt, President Barack Obama quoted the Republican president who said in 1910, “‘The fundamental rule in our national life – the rule which underlies all others – is that, on the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together.” “Fewer and [...]
Senate Bill Legalizes Sodomy and Bestiality in Military
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals--or bestiality. On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved S. 1867, the [...]
Balanced Budget Amendment Rejected by House
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com The House of Representatives rejected a proposed balanced budget amendment (BBA) on Friday in a 261-165 vote, falling 29 votes shy of the 290 votes needed to pass the measure. Most Republicans voted for the measure while a majority of Democrats opposed it. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said [...]
Emory Students Speak out Against Free Expression Zone
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org On Wednesday I gave Emory University a shellacking over a proposed "free expression zone" policy, which was hailed in The Emory Wheel as a step forward by Emory's student government president and a number of Emory administrators. As I wrote, the fact that such initiatives on supposedly free liberal arts campuses [...]
Senate May Force Shutdown of Religious Freedom Watchdog
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com For more than a decade, an independent, statutory monitor has been advising the U.S. executive and legislative branches on international religious freedom, drawing attention to the persecution of people of faith under Muslim, communist and autocratic regimes from Riyadh to Rangoon. But by this [...]
GOP Must Be the ‘Pro-Legal Immigration Party’
Liberty Alerts, Christopher Goins, CNSNews.com The Republican Party must be seen favoring legal immigration, rather than being known for its stance against illegal immigration, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Thursday. Calling for a modernization of federal immigration laws, the freshman Republican added that the GOP should be known for what [...]
Liberals Suddenly Care About Sexual Harassment…Again
By Christopher G. Adamo It is hard to know where to begin listing the reasons why “liberalism” and “hypocrisy” have become synonymous. But the latest flap over some warmed over charges of “sexual harassment” against Herman Cain is a sterling example. Outrageous though this synthetic controversy may be, it hardly comes as a surprise. [...]
Officials From Terror-Sponsoring State ‘Exempted From Enhanced Screening’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com While six-year-old girls and retired school teachers with bladder cancer were subjected to intrusive pat-downs by Transportation Security Administration officials at U.S. airports after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate his underwear on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas 2009, officials [...]
Herman Cain: ‘I Have Never Sexually Harassed Anyone’
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com "I have never sexually harassed anyone -- anyone. And absolutely, these are false accusations," GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain told Fox News on Monday. He was responding to a Politico report that he sexually harassed two female employees of the National Restaurant Association, which Cain headed in [...]
Father Frank Pavone Mourns Passing of Pro-life Hero
Liberty Alerts, Priests for Life Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, issued the following statement today upon learning of the death of pro-life hero “Prolife Anderson.” “Over the years I have been inspired by many pro-life activists and have tried to pattern my own life on them, but among [...]
Cain: ‘I Do Not Agree With Abortion Under Any Circumstances’
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Appearing on NBC’S “Meet the Press” today, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he believes that life begins at conception and that he does not agree with abortion “under any circumstances.” Cain then elaborated that he did not support exceptions that would allow abortion in cases of rape [...]
U.S. Lobbying Yielded Only 3 Votes to Block ‘Palestine’ Bid
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com A Palestinian bid for United Nations recognition achieved its first victory Wednesday when only four countries out of 58 voted against a recommendation to admit “Palestine” to the U.N.’s cultural agency. Despite U.S. lobbying and last-minute appeals, the U.S. was joined only by Germany, [...]
Obama: Banks Don’t Have ‘Inherent Right’ to ‘Certain Amount of Profit’
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com President Obama suggested on Monday that the nation's banks should "take a little bit less of a profit" rather than raise fees on customers. In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Obama was asked if the government can stop banks from imposing a new debit card fee on their customers. "Well, [...]
Wall Street Protesters Say This Is Their ‘Arab Spring’
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com The "leaderless resistance movement" that began with a handful of college students in a lower Manhattan park two weeks ago spread to other cities over the weekend, and it is expected to grow even larger in the days ahead. Occupy Wall Street protesters say they are "using the revolutionary Arab Spring [...]
Stimulus Needed ‘Even if We’re Growing at 8%’ and Have ‘3% Unemployment’
Liberty Alerts, Penny Starr, CNSNews.com Vice President Joe Biden said Congress should pass the $450-billion American Jobs Act even if the economy were growing at 8 percent and unemployment were as low as 3 percent. “Look, we should be doing all of this stuff even if we were growing by 8 percent, even if there was a 3 percent unemployment [...]
Steve King on Planned Parenthood, Obamacare Funding: GOP House Will ‘Allow It to Happen’
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Rep. Steve King (R.-Iowa) is predicting that--despite his own and other conservatives' efforts to the contrary--this Republican-controlled House of Representatives will continue throughout its two-year tenure to allow funding for Planned Parenthood and the implementation of Obamacare. “They [...]
DNC Chair: U.S. Economy ‘No Longer Dropping Like A Rock’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chair of the Democratic National Committee, says the economy “has turned the corner,” but her counterpart at the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, says Americans are still hurting. Priebus said the bumper sticker for Democrats in 2012 should be, [...]
Obama Calls Himself ‘Warrior for the Middle Class’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama told Democratic donors that he doesn’t mind being accused of class warfare, even saying that he wears it as a “badge of honor.” He also said Republicans want to return to prosperity through “cheap labor and dirty air.” “Now, you’re already hearing the Republicans in [...]
Israel Once Again Accused of ‘Apartheid’ at U.N. Racism Meeting
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The U.N. on Thursday commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Durban anti-racism process, an enterprise that has been marked by years of acrimony over efforts to single out Israel as racist. More than a dozen Western democracies boycotted the event. Meeting on the sidelines of the General [...]
Okay to Be Openly Gay in U.S. Military
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Nine months after President Barack Obama signed a bill repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that said homosexuals could not openly serve in the U.S. military, the “gay ban” ended Tuesday at one minute after midnight. The first celebration took place in Vermont, where Navy Lt. Gary Ross [...]
Administration’s List of Religious Freedom Violators Excludes Pakistan, 5 Others
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Almost 32 months after taking office, the Obama administration has for the first time designated “countries of particular concern” (CPCs) for religious persecution. But despite urging from religious freedom advocates, it did not add several countries accused of egregious violations. [...]
Islamic Bloc Declines to Condemn All Terrorism
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com In a statement marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the bloc of Islamic states on Sunday reiterated a stance that has stymied efforts at the United Nations for well over a decade to develop a global convention against terrorism – the insistence that any definition of terrorism should make an [...]
Engagement Advocates Alarmed by GOP Bid to Slash UN Funding
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Advocates of deeper U.S. engagement with the United Nations reacted with dismay to a House Republican initiative Tuesday aimed at ending what its author called “the era of no-strings-attached contributions” to the world body. One critic likened the legislation to Friday’s suicide bombing of a U.N. building in [...]
Delegates Vote to Double Political Dues
School Days, Education Reporter The NEA lost more than 39,000 active members during the 2009-2010 school year and projects they will lose another 21,000 in the coming year, but they are determined to maintain maximum political capital. In his keynote address, President Dennis Van Roekel tried to rally his troops with assurances that the NEA is [...]
Economic Storm Continues: Bernanke Says ‘Recovery Even Weaker Than We Had Thought’
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyo., yesterday at an economic symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the economic recovery in the United States had proved to be “even weaker” than the Federal Open Market Committee had [...]
Taliban Leader Targeted in Operation Still at Large
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com The Taliban leader who was the target of the operation in Eastern Afghanistan that left 30 U.S. military personnel, seven Afghan commandos, and a civilian interpreter dead in a helicopter crash is still at large, Army Maj. Gen. Daniel Allyn told reporters today. When pressed on the subject by Courtney [...]
The U.S. Constitution and Common Sense Prevail in Lake County, Florida
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Mount Dora, FL – Jerry Buell has been reinstated as a teacher, allowing him to return back to the classroom tomorrow. The Lake County School Board made its decision today after a week-long “investigation” into a comment Buell made on his personal Facebook page expressing his disapproval of legalized [...]
Obama’s Policy of ‘Engaging’ Rogue Regimes Looking Shaky
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The unfolding climax of the Libyan revolution and the ongoing crisis in Syria again raise questions about the value of seeking to engage leaders long hostile to the United States and the West. From Damascus to Pyongyang, from Tehran to Yangon, regimes have spurned overtures by the Obama [...]
EPA Answers 390 ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ About Its New Pollution Regulation
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Sept. 30 is the deadline for thousands of American businesses -- including power plants, petroleum refineries, landfills and large engine manufacturers -- to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. government for the first time. The EPA on Monday announced a new tool that will allow 7,000 [...]
Obama’s Approval Rating Drops to All-Time Low of 38%
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Only 38 percent of Americans say they approve of the way Barack Obama is handing his job as president, according to Gallup's daily tracking poll released today (which averages the president's approval over Gallup's previous three days of polling). That is the lowest that Obama's approval has been in the [...]
Education Secretary Wishes U.S. Parents Were More Like South Koreans
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan indicated yesterday that he wished American parents were more like South Korean parents in the attitude they take toward the education of their children. “As I look across the globe and look at the competition we’re facing--places like South Korea where the [...]
Sen.Mike Lee: Budget Control Act ‘A Disappointing Failure’
Liberty Alerts, Utah Congressional Delegation, Senator Mike Lee The Budget Control Act represents a disappointing failure on the part of this Congress. We have squandered the best opportunity we had to fundamentally reform the way Washington spends money and put the nation on a sustainable path toward a balanced budget. Instead, this bill [...]
Pelosi: Raising Taxes Should Be Considered In ‘A Very Strong Way’
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that raising taxes must be considered by Congress in a “very strong way” going forward, adding that her caucus did not “like the deal” signed by President Barack Obama to cut federal spending and raise the nation’s debt limit. “For [...]
Speaker Boehner Will Not Comment on Weiner Scandal
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Ryan, CNSNews.com House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday refused to answer questions on whether the House Ethics Committee should investigate the alleged hacking of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D-N.Y.) Twitter account. At a Capitol Hill news conferemce on Wednesday, Boehner said only, “You’ll have to talk to [...]
You Got Bin Laden, Now Get Out of the Region, Islamists Tell U.S.
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Now that it has achieved its goal of killing Osama bin Laden, the United States should withdraw its armed forces from Afghanistan and the broader region. That’s the message being sent by Islamists from Pakistan, Egypt, and the Iranian government. “If according to U.S. President Obama, [...]
Boehner’s Favorable Rating Down Among Republicans
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com A newly released USA Today/Gallup poll conducted the week after President Barack Obama signed a fiscal 2011 spending bill he had negotiated with House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) reveals that Boehner’s favorable rating has dropped among Democrats, Independents--and Republicans. The poll [...]
Cantor in 2010: ‘Beyond Comprehension’ To Lift Debt Limit to $14.294 Trillion
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com On Feb. 4, 2010, when the House of Representatives voted to increase the legal limit on the national debt by another $1.9 trillion (lifting the limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion), not one Republican voted for the increase. Then-Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R.-Va.) rose on the House [...]
‘Medicaid Is Not Too Expensive; People Are Too Poor’
Liberty Alerts, Dan Joseph, CNSNews.com Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) said that Medicaid is not expensive but that the high cost of the program is due to the fact that too many Americans are “poor.” In a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday – where Democrats criticized the budget proposal introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that they [...]
Inhofe: ‘I’ve Got 20 Kids and Grandkids I’ve Got to Save’
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Wednesday he hopes Republicans will regain control of the Senate in 2012 because he needs to “save” his children and grandchildren from the Obama administration’s environmental policies. During a conference call with reporters and bloggers, Inhofe ticked off [...]
Breakdown of Black Families Linked to Planned Parenthood Birth Control Campaign
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com Planned Parenthood’s birth-control campaign in low-income, black neighborhoods is partly to blame for the breakdown of the black family as well as today’s epidemic of out-of-wedlock births, single parent households, sexually transmitted diseases, absent fathers, and high abortion rates, according to [...]
Obama’s Libyan War Most Unpopular in 40 Years
Liberty Alerts, Terrence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama’s intervention in Libya’s civil war has not only failed to win the approval of a majority of the American people, according to a Gallup poll conducted Monday, it also earned the lowest public approval rating of any U.S. military operation polled by Gallup over the [...]
Florida Judge Using Islamic Law to Decide Case
Liberty Alerts, Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily.com A Florida state judge has determined that Shariah law will be used to determine the validity of an arbitration in a dispute between factions in a mosque. The decision comes from Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen, and while it does involve only an internal dispute at the Islamic Education [...]
