(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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Dan Calabrese’s new column on Hillary Clinton’s past may bring the curtain down on her political future. Calabrese interviewed Jerry Zeifman, the man who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings, has tried to tell the story of his former staffer’s behavior during those proceedings for years. Zeifman claims [...]

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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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White House spokesman Jay Carney had a “What difference does it make?” moment earlier when asked about whistleblowers on Benghazi being threatened to keep them quiet. “Let’s be clear,” said Carney. “Benghazi happened a long time ago. We are unaware of any agency blocking an employee who would like to appear before Congress to provide [...]

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President Barack Obama got ahead of himself and his advisers when he said that Syria using chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” the New York Times reports. “How can we attack another country unless it’s in self-defense and with no Security Council resolution?” an unnamed Obama administration official tells the paper. “If he drops sarin on [...]

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When President Obama unveiled his 2014 budget on Wednesday, he called it “responsible” and a “compromise.” Color Republicans skeptical. “The president’s budget isn’t a compromise,” said Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., in the weekly GOP address on Saturday. “It’s a blank check for more spending and more debt.” Walorski scalded the president’s budget for proposing new [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – A disclosure on Capitol Hill that the Defense Intelligence Agency believes North Korea has developed the know-how to mount nuclear warheads on ballistic missiles made international headlines Thursday, before Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called it into question. Clapper said in a statement that a passage read out during a House Armed [...]

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, said on Tuesday that the healthcare law, set to go into full effect in less than eight months, is “probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress” and “is just beyond comprehension.” Rockefeller said he is [...]

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(CNSNews.com) – As tributes pour in and Britons wrestle over her legacy at home, few around the world would dispute that Margaret Thatcher’s foreign policy left Britain more respected, and the West stronger, during a pivotal decade of the 20th century. Britain’s first woman prime minister, who died Monday at 87, will be remembered for [...]

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