(CNSNews.com) – The federal government is spending $146,944 in taxpayer funds to research sending automated text messages to people with depression to remind them to take their medication and monitor their mood and thoughts. The text messages will “prompt patients to monitor mood, thoughts and behaviors.” It will also “provide medication and appointment reminders,” and [...]

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(Reuters) – More than 8,000 French households’ tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data. The newspaper said that the exceptionally high level of taxation was due to a one-off levy last year on 2011 incomes for households with assets of [...]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their exemption [...]

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Time flies, doesn’t it? It was three years ago that President Barack Obama, after a brutal political battle, signed The Affordable Care Act it into law on March 23, 2010. Here’s a quick and dirty rundown of what Americas have gotten from Obamacare so far: Fewer jobs: If you’re a business with 50 or full-time employees you’re [...]

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Looking ahead to November 2014. The weasels who wrote the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 presidential election. Popular provisions were put into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26, offering “free” colonoscopies and mammograms (in truth, forcing you to pay for them [...]

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Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Europe last month led to a hefty tab with over $1 million for hotels for himself, staff and security for two nights in London and Paris, government documents show. As first reported by The Weekly Standard, documents show that the U.S. State Department obtained contracts with two five-star hotels [...]

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Throughout this week we have done a lot of analysis of budget resolutions as they have been released, breaking down many aspects of their policies and estimates. Now it’s time to take a step back and see how the House Republican (Ryan), Senate Democratic (Murray), Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) budgets [...]

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This woman is an absolute idiot. (CNSNews.com) – Del. Eleanor Norton (D-District of Columbia) says private sector jobs are not showing much growth because the federal government is shrinking. “What is shrinking is not the private sector – it’s hard for them to grow because the public sector, both the state sector and the federal [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – After weeks of warning from President Barack Obama and administration officials that the sequester means criminal would go free, first responders and school teachers would lose their jobs, the border would be less secure, and there would be longer waits for air travelers without an agreement by March 1, Obama said Friday it [...]

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Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from a program designed to help them because funding is running low. Obama administration officials said Friday that the state-based “high-risk pools” set up under the 2010 health-care law will be closed to new applicants as soon [...]

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