Posts Tagged ‘news’
Researchers Create National Registry to Track Teen Weight Loss
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Researchers at Brown University have created a national weight loss registry to document and track obese adolescents who have lost weight and managed to keep it off for at least one year. The program will, among other things, track factors that may have influenced young people’s weight loss, such as [...]
‘Blue Dog’ Heath Shuler to Challenge Pelosi
Liberty Alerts, Chris Johnson, CNSNews.com If outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) remains unchallenged in her bid for the House Minority Leader position for the next Congress, Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) says he will run against her. “I've said all along I'm hoping that Nancy Pelosi will step aside and will allow the leaders that [...]
Obama Finally Names Nominee for U.N. Reform Post
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Twenty-two months into his administration and almost a year since a previous effort failed, President Obama has nominated an envoy to the United Nations with a mandate focusing on reform. The delay in putting in place a U.S. permanent representative for U.N. management and reform has drawn fire [...]
Former Israeli Airline Chief: U.S. Needs to Profile Air Passengers
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com As criticism mounts over the use of full-body scanners and physical pat-downs at U.S. airports, the former security director for Israel’s national airline told CNSNews.com that airline security in America is an “illusion,” and that the United States should adopt El Al’s passenger profiling [...]
TSA Administrator: ‘No Exceptions’ to Full Body Pat Downs
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Transportation Security Administration Chief John S. Pistole told a Senate committee yesterday that air passengers selected by the TSA for enhanced screening who decline to undergo either a full-body scan or a full body pat down will not be allowed to board planes in the United States. There will be no [...]
Conservative Rally on Capitol Hill As Lame Duck Session Begins
Liberty Alerts, Chris Johnson, CNSNews.com As Congress’ lame duck session began on Monday, activists from around the country met at the Capitol to “keep the pressure on to ensure Congress does not pass radical legislation.” On the first day of the final session of the 111th Congress, members of the organization “Americans for [...]
Courts: Expel Counseling Students Who Won’t Affirm Gay Life
School Days, Education Reporter Two recent court rulings upheld the dismissal of Christian students from counseling programs because of their moral objections to homosexuality. Students Julea Ward in Michigan and Jennifer Keeton in Georgia were both expelled from master's in counseling programs after expressing their unwillingness to affirm [...]
Liberty Counsel Overturns School’s Ban on Student’s American Flag
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel_ Denair, CA – Liberty Counsel intervened and overturned a ban on the American flag of 13-year-old student, Cody Alecia, who was told he could not have it on the back of his bicycle on Veterans’ Day. Denair school officials responsible for the original ban rescinded their decision after receiving a letter [...]
Court: State Must Keep Financing Illegal Aliens’ Education
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles States cannot be prevented from giving illegal immigrants public benefits that aren’t extended to all American citizens, according to a California Supreme Court ruling that’s likely to have nationwide impact. The case involves discounted tuition at public colleges and universities in the Golden State. [...]
Virginia: Lawsuit Against Obamacare Is Not About Health Insurance, It’s About Liberty
Liberty Alerts, Terrence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Virginia Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinelli told CNSNews.com that the lawsuit his state has filed against the health-care reform law signed by President Barack Obama in March is about preserving the liberty of individual Americans against a federal government that is over-reaching its legitimate [...]
Obama’s Claiming More Power Over Americans Than King George
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Virginia Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinelli, who has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the health-care law signed by President Barack Obama last March, says Obama and the Congress that enacted that law--which mandates that individuals must buy government-approved health insurance plans--are [...]
Regarding Rep. Boehner’s Decision to Fly Commercial
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch Washington, DC. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement today regarding Rep. John Boehner’s announcement that he plans to fly commercial to and from Ohio instead of using military aircraft if he officially becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives in January: At the heart of the [...]
Taxpayers Paying Hundreds of Millions for Planned Parenthood
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Planned Parenthood received $349.6 million in tax dollars in the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2008, and it paid its president, Cecile Richards, $385,163, plus another $11,876 in benefits and deferred compensation. According to a “fact sheet” published by the organization, Planned Parenthood Affiliate Health [...]
Nearly $1 Trillion Net Tax Hike Proposed in ‘Tax Reform’ Plan
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Over the next 10 years, Americans could see a net federal tax hike of $961 billion if the draft recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform are enacted. This proposed tax hike would include those earning below $250,000, the people that President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged [...]
Former CIA Director Defends Oklahoma Ban on Shariah Law
Liberty Alerts, Dan Joseph, CNSNews.com Former CIA director James Woolsey is defending a measure that Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly passed last week barring state judges from relying upon Islamic (Shariah) law as the basis for making court decisions. The ballot measure is being challenged in federal court by a Muslim group. Woolsey, a [...]
New York City Mayor Using Taxpayer Money for Assault on Salt
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a leading gun control advocate, is now advocating “salt control” – using taxpayer money. The New York Post reported Tuesday that Bloomberg is running ads, funded by taxpayers, that feature a half-opened can of soup with salt erupting from the top. The ads warns that [...]
Cover-up: Mid-East Terrorist Entering U.S. Through Mexico
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The U.S. government is covering up the growing threat created by Middle Eastern terrorists entering the country through the porous Mexican border, according to a veteran federal agent who assures the area has never been secure. The U.S. Border Patrol has captured thousands of people who have been [...]
Bankruptcy of U.S. Mathematical Certainty Says Allison
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com John Allison, who for two decades served as chairman and CEO of BB&T, the nation's 10th largest bank, told CNSNews.com it is a “mathematical certainty” that the United States government will go bankrupt unless it dramatically changes its fiscal direction. Allison likened what he sees as the predictable [...]
Oops! Govt. Makes $32 Billion Error
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a perfect example of the need to keep government in check, a $32.3 billion mistake that severely distorted the nation’s 2009 wage statistics was only discovered because the media questioned a federal agency’s suspect data. The massive blunder slipped by two key government agencies—Internal [...]
Democrats Already Taking Legal Action
Liberty Alerts, Foxnews.com Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, says the DSCC is already taking legal action in some areas across the country. In Bridgeport, Ct., Democrats are looking for an hour-long extension in that precinct since polling stations ran out of ballots. According to the [...]
Damages Paid, Record Cleared of Rosary Wearing Student
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's a case that you have heard us talk about for months. A middle school student from New York State punished - suspended from school - for wearing a Rosary to school. And you may recall that we filed a federal suit, succeeded in obtaining an injunction, and got the school district to [...]
Supreme Court Weighs Tax Credits for Arizona School Choice
School Days, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Kathleen M. Winn. This case involves a challenge to an Arizona school choice law that provides dollar-for-dollar tax credits to taxpayers who make contributions to independent [...]
Despite New Law, Problems Persist With Military Vote
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada and Wisconsin – some of the fiercest battlegrounds of the of the 2010 midterm election -- are among the 14 states and territories singled out by the U.S. Justice Department for not complying with the federal law that says absentee ballots must be sent in time for overseas soldiers, [...]
Pulling the Plug on Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com Today's NewsMax.com reports: "Three states have ballot measures intended to nix mandatory healthcare coverage. In Arizona, Proposition 106 would tweak a constitutional amendment that nearly passed in 2008. It amends the state constitution to expressly forbid any healthcare system that requires individuals and [...]
Bittersweet Blessing of Adoption and the Pain
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com Crystal Berger knows the challenges and joys of motherhood. She has given birth to four daughters and is stepmother to a fifth. But it is 7-year-old Emma, her second-born daughter, who revealed to Berger the true meaning of motherly love. Continue at CNSNews.com >>> Used with the permission of [...]
Spill Compensation Czar: 110,000 Claims Have No Documentation
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Nearly two-thirds of the outstanding compensation claims from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have no documentation to backup their loss, according to the administrator in charge of distributing compensation money to the victims. Meanwhile, at least 50 claims are considered "very suspicious" and [...]
Why Students Don’t Write Research Papers in High School
School Days, EducationNews.org Those of you who lament the state of high school students' research and writing skills will be interested in a discussion that's been unfolding at the National Association of Scholars. It began a couple weeks ago with the publication of a previously undisclosed report on why students are not learning—let alone [...]
Nevadans to Harry Reid: Stop Thief!
Liberty Alerts, RenewAmerica.com, Wes Vernon The "funny business" started when voters in Boulder City (near Las Vegas) showed up to cast their (early voting) ballot for Reid's Republican opponent, Sharron Angle. Within five minutes, they reported that Senator Reid's name had already been checked. Continue >>>
CBO Says ObamaCare Will Drive People From the Workforce
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said the most significant economic effect of President Barack Obama’s health care reform package will be to drive people out of the job market. “For the economy outside the health sector, the most significant impact of the legislation will be [...]
Obama Describes America: ‘Big, Messy Democracy’
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama repeatedly has called the United States a “big, messy Democracy" in his many campaign stops around the country in recent weeks. Obama apparently is using the expression to defend his administration's difficulty in making "big changes" since he took office almost two years [...]
