‘CNSNews’ Archives
Bernanke: ‘A Long Way to Go’ Before Full Jobs Recovery
MATT COVER, CNSNEWS.COM Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Senate Budget Committee that the country still had “a long way to go” before the jobs market fully recovers. Bernanke, in prepared remarks delivered at a Senate Budget Committee hearing Tuesday, said that the results of massive long-term unemployment and a sluggish [...]
Romney Says the Campaign in Florida ‘Has Been About Leadership’
CAMPAIGN TRAIL, SUSAN JONES (CNS.News.com) -- Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney on Monday called it "very sad and painfully revealing" to see "Newt Gingrich railing on" about Romney's supposedly liberal positions. Gingrich on Sunday called Romney a "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax-increase liberal" who could not be trusted to bring [...]
Bishop: Obama Administration Is Telling Catholics ‘To Hell With You’
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Roman Catholic Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh says the Obama administration is telling American Catholics: “To Hell with you.” “The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!’” the bishop said in a column posted on his diocesan website. “There [...]
Pastors Protest Bloomberg Booting 60 Churches Out of Schools
PETE WINN, CNSNEWS.COM New York City Councilman Fernando Cabrera and NYC religious leaders organized a rally at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s State of the City speech on Thursday to protest the city’s decision to stop 60 churches--but not other groups--from meeting in public schools. New York City protest “Treating houses of worship [...]
Business, Manufacturing Groups Send Letter to Obama
MATT COVER, CNSNEWS.COM A group of 100 business and manufacturing groups has sent a letter to President Obama urging him to quickly approve the Keystone XL pipeline, saying it would be “irresponsible” for the president to halt the job-creating project. “With your approval, this shovel-ready project will provide 20,000 jobs in [...]
Female Heads of State Discuss How ‘Climate Change’ Hurts Women
But 'mum's the word' regarding gendercide (via sex-selective abortions) in China and India. PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM At a gathering of female heads of states, including the president of Finland and the former president of Ireland, the discussion focused on women’s rights, the importance of supporting “emerging” women leaders and how [...]
Obama on Pace to Borrow $6.2 Trillion in One Term
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM President Barack Obama has been increasing the national debt during his presidency by an average of $4.24 billion per day ($4,240,506,004.34) putting him on a pace to increase the national debt by $6.2 trillion ($6,195,379,272,340.74) by the end of his term on Jan. 20, 2013, according to the debt figures [...]
Chamber of Commerce to Obama: In-Sourcing? What About Keystone?
PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM While President Barack Obama has been touting the importance of “insourcing” jobs into the United States (as opposed to outsourcing jobs overseas), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reminded America on Thursday that Obama recently rejected one of the most prominent and beneficial insourced opportunities: the Keystone XL [...]
Obama Asks Congress to Lift Debt Ceiling by Another $1.2 Trillion
MATT COVER, CNSNEWS.COM President Obama has sent a letter to Congress saying that the government is within $100 billion of the $15.2 trillion debt ceiling, saying that it must be raised immediately. “I hereby certify that the debt subject to limit is within $100,000,000,000 of the limit in 31 U.S.C. 3101(b) and that further borrowing is [...]
Hillary Offers ‘World Class’ Education to Muslim Women
SUSAN JONES, CNSNEWS.COM The federal government is partnering with dozens of U.S. colleges to provide women from Muslim counties with a "world-class" education in science, technology, engineering and math. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the NeXXt Scholars partnership last month, and her remarks were posted on the State [...]
Obama Gives Pep Talk at EPA After Daley Departure
MATT COVER, CNSNEWS.COM President Barack Obama gave a pep talk to employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the day after his chief of staff, William Daley, resigned. Daley’s departure was hailed by environmental groups angry with the Chicagoan’s approach to environmental issues. Daley had been reported as bringing [...]
Romney: Compare $5 Million We Put in Staples to $530 Million Obama Put in Solyndra
MELANIE HUNTER, CNSNEWS.COM Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, invited voters on Sunday to compare the $5 million his venture capitalist firm invested in Staples to $530 million in tax dollars President Barack Obama invested in Solyndra, which went bankrupt. Speaking at a rally in Rochester, [...]
Gingrich Defends Marriage As ‘Core’ of Civilization
SUSAN JONES, CNSNEWS.COM What about homosexuals who want to form "loving, committed, long-term relationships," the Republican candidates were asked at Saturday's ABC News/Yahoo debate in New Hampshire: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich staunchly defended traditional marriage, describing the union of one man and one woman as the "core of our [...]
Idaho Couple Challenges Power of EPA
Philip Shepherd, CNSNEWS.COM In 2005, Michael and Chantell Sackett were working toward what many American families work toward, their own home on their own land, until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) halted their plans by declaring it a “wetland.” On Monday, Jan. 9, the Sacketts and their attorneys will ask the justices of [...]
‘Fast and Furious’ Linked to Deal With Sinaloa Cartel
EDWIN MORA, CNSNEWS.COM A Mexican drug trafficker awaiting trial in a Chicago federal court claims that the notorious Sinaloa cartel received weapons from “Operation Fast and Furious” under an alleged immunity agreement that the U.S. government made with cartel leaders, in exchange for information on rival gangs. The defendant in a [...]
Gingrich Sponsor of Global Warming And Population Growth Bill
Elizabeth Harrington, CNSNEWS.COM Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich, as a U.S. House representative from Georgia in 1989, was among the co-sponsors of a sweeping global warming bill that, among other things, called for an international agreement on population growth. Gingrich today, however, says he opposes such a policy and that [...]
Tournament of Roses to Occupiers: You Can’t March in Our Parade
PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM Although an Occupy Wall Street protest group in Pasadena, Calif., tried to get a slot to march in the Rose Parade on Jan. 2, officials with the parade said no. The group now plans to march down the street behind a group of police cars that mark the end of the parade. In November, the Occupy group announced its plans [...]
Pro-Life Group Sues HHS to Force Release of Document
Philip Shepherd, CNSNEWS.COM New Hampshire Right to Life is suing the Obama administration in an attempt to force the release of information regarding $1-million in taxpayer money awarded to Planned Parenthood’s six New Hampshire clinics. The grant – awarded by the Health and Human Service Department (HHS) in September -- came three [...]
U.S. Prods Karzai to Accept Taliban Office in Gulf State
PATRICK GOODENOUGH, CNSNEWS.COM The Afghan Taliban edged a little closer to international respectability this week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s announcement that his government would accept a Taliban liaison office in Qatar to facilitate peace talks with the fundamentalist militia. Karzai’s agreement, which is contingent on [...]
Obama Spending Millions to ‘Better Connect’ People
SUSAN JONES, CNSNEWS.COM The Obama administration is giving $20 million in taxpayer money to the State of Missouri for improvements to I-70 that will "better connect" people in St. Louis with the parkland around the base of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Sen. Claire [...]
Millions of Muslims Do Not Reject Suicide Bombings
PATRICK GOODENOUGH, CNSNEWS.COM Condemning the deadly attacks on Nigerian Christians on Christmas Day, Islamic organizations around the world called the atrocities un-Islamic, yet opinion polls tracking views on terrorism suggest that significant numbers of Muslims disagree. While scientific polling has found a decline in support for suicide [...]
Nigerian Christmas Day Attacks Deplored as UnIslamic
PATRICK, GOODENOUGH. CNSNEWS.COM Condemning the deadly attacks on Nigerian Christians on Christmas Day, Islamic organizations around the world called the atrocities un-Islamic, yet opinion polls tracking views on terrorism suggest that significant numbers of Muslims disagree. While scientific polling has found a decline in support for [...]
Walter Reed Banned Family Members From Bringing Bibles
PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM In a Sept. 14 policy memorandum, Col. Chuck Callahan, chief of staff of Walter Reed National Medical Center, banned family members from bringing Bibles and other "religious items" when visiting wounded military personnel at the facility. In a section entitled “Partners in Care Guidelines," describing what family [...]
Christianity May Be Eradicated In Iraq and Afghanistan
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM Despite long-term U.S. military occupations aimed at establishing representative governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Christianity now faces the real threat of eradication in those countries because of severe and persistent persecution of Christians there, according to the chairman of the U.S. Commission on [...]
White House: ‘What Does $40 Mean to You?’
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Trying to stoke outrage against Republicans who voted against a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, the Obama White House is urging "working" people to "tell us what your family will give up if your taxes increase." "Too many just don't understand the perspective of a working family," David [...]
North Korea Sealed Its Border With China
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com During the two days that passed between Kim Jong-il’s death and the official announcement, the North Korean regime reportedly took steps to prevent a chaotic response to the news, apparently fearing a mass exodus across the border with China. Announcement of the death came on Monday, at noon [...]
US Capitol Christmas Tree Pays Homage to Obama—But Not Jesus
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com The 63-foot Sierra White Fir lighted at the U.S. Capitol Grounds on Dec. 6 as the official 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree includes a prominently displayed ornament paying homage to President Barack Obama, but includes no ornament readily visible to a person standing near the tree's base that uses [...]
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 [...]
Republicans Propose Bill to Treat Drug Cartels as Terrorists
Liberty Alerts, Elizabeth Harrington, CNSNews.com Calling the situation along the U.S. border a “threat to national security,” a House committee Thursday took up a bill sponsored by Republican congressmen that would treat Mexican drug cartels like terrorists and apply a counterinsurgency strategy to the growing violence along the Southern [...]
Hoyer: Keystone Pipeline a ‘Stick in the Eye’ for Democrats
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the Keystone XL oil pipeline project would only create five to six thousand jobs and that Republican efforts to force a vote on the project were a “stick in the eye” of Democrats who oppose it. “This is five thousand to six thousand jobs,” [...]
Hatch: Payroll Tax Extension Dangerous to Social Security
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), top Republican on the Finance Committee, has concerns about the impact that extending the payroll tax holiday will have on Social Security, but he said the House Republican package debated Tuesday offers avenues to trim spending and spur job growth. “Let’s face it. [...]
Senate GOP Unites Behind Strong Balanced Budget Amendment
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Senate Republicans are united behind a constitutional amendment that would require Congress to pass a balanced budget, cap spending at 18 percent of GDP, and require a two-thirds vote in both houses to raise taxes. “This week the Senate will consider a balanced budget amendment that will finally put [...]
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 Refused to Make Decision on Pipeline
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama, who punted a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline until after the presidential election, nevertheless insists that his administration has gone "all in" when it comes to domestic energy production. He also flatly refused any give-and-take with Republicans to speed up the [...]
Obamacare Showers Millions on School Health Clinics
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Under Obamacare, more than $14 million in taxpayer money is going to health clinics at 45 schools, many of them in poor parts of the country. "Today's infusion of new money will enable them to expand their capacity and modernize their facilities," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [...]
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 [...]
Herman Cain: ‘I Am Suspending My Presidential Campaign”
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Speaking outside his new campaign headquarters in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon, as his wife stood behind him, former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain announced that he is "suspending" his presidential campaign. Cain also said he will endorse a presidential candidate and that it will not be President Barack [...]
Critics See ‘Blame Israel’ Mindset in U.S. Envoy’s Remark
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com The White House is distancing itself from remarks by an American ambassador and 2008 Obama campaign fundraiser suggesting that hatred of Jews was linked to Israeli actions, but some critics said the comments align with a “blame Israel” mentality in the administration. Republican [...]
Debt for First 11 Months of ‘11: $1.1 Trillion
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com The federal government accumulated approximately $1.1 trillion in new debt in the first 11 months of calendar year 2011, according to data releasedby the U.S. Treasury on Thursday. At the close of business on Dec. 31, 2010, the federal government’s debt equaled $14,025,215,218,708.52. At the [...]
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 [...]
Palestinians Try to Resurrect a U.N. Resolution They Rejected
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com As the U.N. Tuesday marked its annual day of “solidarity” with the Palestinian cause, the Palestine Liberation Organization took the opportunity once again to promote a 1947 U.N. resolution that divided the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River into a Jewish state and an [...]
Gingrich Blasts Obama Administration Over Immigration Litigation
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich, campaigning in the early primary state of South Carolina, criticized the Obama administration for challenging state laws that combat illegal immigration. “After years of failure on the part of the federal government to achieve border security, it is an [...]
Muslim Brotherhood Expected to Do Well in Egypt’s Elections
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Egyptians were going to the polls Monday -- the beginning of a three-phase, six-week-long parliamentary election process that is getting under way amid deadly violence. At least 40 people were killed in the past week as protestors in Cairo’s Tahrir Square called for an end to military [...]
Obama Leaves Mexico Border Unfenced
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com The Obama administration has slashed spending on border fencing, infrastructure and technology, cutting it by more than half since it peaked under President George W. Bush in fiscal 2008, according to a Government Accountability Office report. In 2008, according to GAO, the federal govenrment spent more [...]
Illegals Suspected of Igniting at Least 30 Wildfires
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com People crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are suspected to have been responsible for at least 30 wildfires in Arizona between 2006 and 2010, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). “Based on our review of agency investigation reports, illegal border crossers were a suspected [...]
State Department Uses Facebook to Fight ‘Against Hate’
Liberty Alerts, Penny Starr, CNSNews.com Two State Department officials are promoting a Facebook page, “2011 Hours Against Hate,” as a tool to help young people around the world “push back against hatred.” Speaking at an event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Farah Pardith, a special representative to Muslim communities, said getting [...]
No Answers on Number of Foreign Companies Drilling in U.S.
Liberty Alerts, Penny Starr, CNSNews.com A Florida lawmaker wanting to find out how many foreign-owned companies have leases to drill for oil and natural gas in the U.S. was surprised to learn that the federal department issuing leases does not differentiate in its records between companies owned by foreign governments and others. Republican [...]
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 [...]
Obama Hails ‘Job-Creating’ Deals in Asia, As China Complains
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com President Obama headed home from a nine-day Asia-Pacific trip highlighting deals that he said would support nearly 130,000 American jobs, while Chinese state media complained about an ambitious trade agreement widely seen as designed to isolate China. In his weekly address, recorded in Indonesia [...]
Sessions Demands Written Testimony from Holder on Kagan and Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is demanding that Attorney General Eric Holder provide the committee with written testimony related to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s possible involvement in President Barack Obama’s health-care [...]
