‘CNSNews’ Archives
Republican Leader Says Obama Must Explain U.S. Mission in Libya
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) issued a statement Sunday, telling President Obama he must clarify the U.S. military mission in Libya. The statement reads as follows: The United States has a moral obligation to stand with those who seek freedom from oppression and self-government for their [...]
Military Operation in Libya Sees Little Sign of ‘Crucial’ Arab Participation
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Two consistent themes running through the Obama administration’s public statements on Libya last week were that the Arab League endorsement of international action was pivotal, and that Arab “participation” – not just support – was vital. But in the first 24 hours of Operation Odyssey [...]
Joe Biden: ‘Framers Intended to Grant Congress Power to Initiate All Hostilities, Even Limited Wars’
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com After studying the constitutional language governing the use of military force and the debates that the Framers had on the issue, Joe Biden determined that the Founding Fathers had vested the power to authorize even the limited use of military force in the Congress not the president---unless it was [...]
Obama Energy Administrator Says Gas Prices Will Remain High For Rest of Year
Liberty Alerts, Dan Joseph, CNSNews.com In testimony Thursday before the House Natural Resources Committee, Richard Newell, the administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, told congressmen that gas prices will likely stay well above average for the remainder of the year. “EIA expects continued tightening of world oil [...]
Unemployment Actually 10.2 Percent, 1 in 5 Workers Can’t Find Full-Time Job
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com One out of five American workers who wants a full-time job cannot find one, according to a Gallup survey released today. This news comes 25 months after President Barack Obama signed a stimulus law designed to keep the U.S. unemployment rate under 8 percent. Gallup derives what it calls the [...]
Despite Crises in Japan and Libya, Obama Heads to Latin America to ‘Grow’ the U.S. Economy
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Neither the ongoing nuclear emergency in Japan nor the conflict in Libya and looming outside military intervention there will prevent President Obama from embarking on a five-day trip to Latin America on Friday. The three-country visit includes meetings with the leaders of Brazil, Chile and El [...]
663 Illegal Aliens With Ties to Terrorism Arrested Along Border
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), speaking at a conference on border issues Thursday, said 663 individuals arrested along the southwest border in 2010 were from countries designated as “special interest” or from countries known to have ties with terrorism. “It’s not just that we’re seeing immigration [...]
U.S. Debt Jumped $72 Billion Same Day U.S. House Voted to Cut Spending $6 Billion
Liberty Alerts, Terrence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com The national debt jumped by $72 billion on Tuesday even as the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the government for just three weeks that will cut $6 billion from government spending. If Congress were to cut $6 billion every three weeks for the [...]
84 Percent of Illegals Apprehended in 2010 Weren’t Prosecuted
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com Washington – An illegal alien apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency during the last fiscal year had an estimated 84 percent chance of never being prosecuted, according to figures compiled by the office of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas). Culberson submitted the figures for the [...]
Bullied Teachers
145,100 Public-School Teachers Physically Attacked by Students; 276,700 Threatened With Injury School Days, Penny Star, CNSNews.com Noting that more than a third of American middle school and high school students have “reported being bullied during the school year,” President Barack Obama joined First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House [...]
We’ve Surrendered the Constitution to the Jihadists, Muslim Witness Say
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com The radicalization of American Muslims is driven not by the religion of Islam but by a political Islam that promotes theocracy and rallies against the United States and its secular democracy, a self-described “devout” Muslim, said at a congressional hearing on Thursday. M. Zudhi Jasser, president of [...]
DeMint, Coburn Introduce Bill to Defund National Public Radio, PBS
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Two Republican senators on Friday introduced a bill to stop taxpayer subsidies to public radio and television. Since 2001, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has received nearly $4 billion in taxpayer money for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Sens. Jim DeMint [...]
Judge Orders ‘Expedited Appeal’ of Obamacare for the Good of the Nation
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com A federal judge in Florida, clearly annoyed by the Justice Department's request for "clarification" of his ruling that the new health care law is unconstitutional, on Thursday granted a stay of his February ruling -- but only if the government files an appeal seeking an expedited review of that ruling, [...]
Obama: ‘I Believe in the Second Amendment’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com At a joint presss conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thusday, President Barack Obama responded to a Mexican reporter who asked him if he had the power to veto the right of Americans to keep and bear arms by saying he believed in the Second Amendment. "The Second Amendment of the United [...]
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., on Chevy Volt: ‘The Technology Isn’t There Yet’
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. said that Chevrolet’s “Volt,” a hybrid electric car, is a “good product” but the “technology isn’t there yet really to provide the consumer with something that can go a little further than that and do a little bit better job with that.” At the National [...]
Democrats Invoke ‘Women’s Rights’ In Opposing Ban on Federal Funding of Abortions
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com The debate at the mark-up session for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act ended in a 23-14 vote on Thursday, sending the bill from committee to House leadership and its eventual debate on the floor of the House of Representatives. But the four-hour session leading up to the vote was a contentious [...]
Obama Tells Gaddafi to Leave: ‘It’s the Right Thing to Do’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama made another call for the ouster Moammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, as the embattled dictator – clearly not listening -- escalates attacks on those Libyans who oppose him. “Col. Gaddafi needs to step down from power and leave. That is good for his country. That is good for his [...]
Islamist Rally at White House ‘Postponed’
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com An Islamic radical called off a pro-shari’a (Islamic law) demonstration at the White House on Thursday, saying he did not want it to divert attention from the “urgent” situation in Libya and elsewhere in the Middle East. Talking to CNSNews.com, the activist, Anjem Choudary, charged that [...]
‘Shari’a for America’ Rally Anticipate Fatwa on ‘U.S. Interference’ in Islamic Lands
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com A Lebanese-based radical cleric notorious for his fiery sermons and support for jihad soon will deliver a fatwa regarding “U.S. intervention in Muslim lands,” according to a controversial Islamist group that says it plans to hold a pro-shari’a demonstration at the White House on Thursday. A [...]
ICE Director: U.S.-Mexico Border is Secure As It Has Been in 20 Years
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com When asked if it was necessary to seal the southwest border to combat transnational drug gangs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton did not directly answer but said the border is more secure now than in the last 20 years and that crime is part of life in the United States. Morton [...]
China, Russia Insist Libya’s Suspension From U.N. ‘Not a Precedent’
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com Tuesday’s decision to suspend Libya from the United Nations Human Rights Council was widely praised, but the move does nothing to ensure that membership criteria for the top human rights body will be tightened in the future. Meeting in New York, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution [...]
Harry Reid: We Will Pass House GOP Two-Week Spending Bill
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate will pass the two-week continuing resolution sent to it by the House of Representatives “in the next 48 hours,” citing the lack of controversial amendments that Reid said had doomed the long-term plan passed by the House on Feb. 19. Reid, [...]
Al Sharpton, Not Glenn Beck, ‘Hijacked’ MLK’s Legacy
Liberty Alerts, Christopher Goins, CNSNews.com Even though his opponents did not show up, Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie “debated” the Rev. Al Sharpton, National Urban League CEO Mark Morial, and former D.C. congressional delegate Rev. Walter Fauntroy at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Massie had challenged the [...]
Lowering U.S. Corporate Tax Rate to 10 Percent Will Create Jobs
Liberty Alerts, Christopher Goins, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama discussed cutting the corporate tax rate in his State of the Union address, and a new Cato Institute study suggests that implementing such a cut, specifically down to a 10 percent rate, would spur economic growth and create real jobs. In his Jan. 25 speech before Congress, [...]
Latino Tea Party Leader Rips Conyers for Racial Politics
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com At a House hearing on immigration on Tuesday, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the debate about the estimated 14 million illegal aliens in the United States is dividing the black and Latino communities. But one witness at the hearing said Mexican-Americans have nothing in common with people who have broken [...]
Conservative Group: Did Obama Collaborate to Overturn Same-Sex Ban?
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com A conservative advocacy group wants to know if the U.S. Justice Department had any behind-the-scenes correspondence or communication with various law firms and/or groups that are suing California over its voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. The Family Research Council has filed a freedom of [...]
Why Should A Dried Up Little Country Like Libya’ ‘Play Havoc’ With U.S. Economic Security?
Liberty Alerts, Nicholas Ballasy, CNSNews.com While making a case for the United States developing alternative forms of energy, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, asked why “a dried up little country like Libya with a crazy dictator” is able to "play havoc with America's economic security?" “People may [...]
Obama’s Failure to Enforce Immigration Law Is ‘Dereliction of Duties’
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com A Vanderbilt University law professor told a House committee on Tuesday that President Barack Obama's failure to enforce federal immigration law is a "dereliction of duties" that puts Americans at risk. “President Obama’s failure to enforce federal immigration laws raises the question of whether we are [...]
U.N. Narcotics Board Drops World’s No. 1 Cocaine Producer From Watch List
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com The United Nations-led International Narcotics Control Board has dropped Colombia from its watch list of countries with illicit drug problems despite acknowledging that the country is the world’s main cocaine producer. Camilo Uribe, a Colombian national and a member of the International Narcotics [...]
Michelle Obama to Hold Another ‘Listen Only’ Press Briefing
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com First Lady Michelle Obama will hold another “listen-only” conference call with reporters this afternoon, continuing a pattern of holding events for the media where access is sharply limited. When public figures in Washington, D.C., hold telephone briefings for the press—which are designed [...]
