(CNSNews.com) – Why, five days after the terror attacks in Benghazi, did U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice insist on five Sunday talk shows that the attack sprang from a protest over an obscure anti-Muslim videotape? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton grew heated while answering that question at Wednesday’s Senate hearing on Benghazi. She said she did [...]
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WASHINGTON — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed pro-gun advocates while encouraging America’s other mayors to pressure Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s gun-control proposals, during a lunch gathering of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday. “Most people I know don’t even have a gun,” Bloomberg said, claiming America is “the only industrialized country [...]
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President Barack Obama on Friday called Sen. John Kerry “a perfect choice” to lead American diplomacy forward as he nominated the Massachusetts Democrat to be the next secretary of state. “He is not going to need a lot of on-the-job training,” Obama said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, with Kerry by his [...]
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo says the state of New York is serious about gun confiscation. The Democrat and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development told an Albany radio station he plans to propose a package of draconian legislation during his State of the State address next month. “I don’t think legitimate sportsmen are [...]
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(CNSNews.com) – Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, on Friday called on school officials to immediately come up with a plan to place armed security in every school in America. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Would [...]
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(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s job approval soared to a three-year high as of Tuesday night, according to the Gallup poll, hitting 56 percent for the first time since the fall of 2009. In the three-day tracking period that ended on Dec. 19, 2012, Obama’s approval was 56 percent. That was up 2 points from [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Had there been a vote on Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s “Plan B” to avert the so-called U.S. fiscal cliff on Thursday night, it would not have been close. He was probably 40 to 50 votes short of the number he needed to avoid a humiliating defeat at the hands of his [...]
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With President Barack Obama endorsing sweeping gun restrictions in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, prices for handgun magazines are surging on EBay (EBAY) and semi-automatic rifles are sold out at many Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) locations. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 19, [...]
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Robert Bork, the former federal judge whose Reagan-era nomination to the Supreme Court touched off one of the roughest confirmation battles in modern U.S. history, has died. Family members said Bork, 85, died early Wednesday morning. He had a history of heart problems and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung condition. His funeral is scheduled [...]
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Here’s how and why it has to be done. John Boehner is a good man in a hard place. He has served in public office as a lifelong conservative, not a RINO. His position on the Obama tax increases has been better than almost any other Republican who has been speaking out lately, given the [...]
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