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Legislation coming up for a House vote would make it a federal crime to carry out an abortion based on the gender of the fetus. The measure takes aim at the aborting of female fetuses, a practice more common to countries such India and China, where there is a strong preference for sons, but which […]

MADISON, Wis., May 31 (UPI) — A win for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in next week’s recall election would mean “lights out” for President Obama, the National Republican Committee head said. “Certainly [if] Wisconsin goes red, I think it’s lights out for Barack Obama,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said Wednesday, speaking about the recall effort […]

Israel/Netanyahu has reluctantly, and even hesitantly, agreed to step back from the military brink with Iran to allow Obama a six-month window within which to win an agreement with Iran in which the latter would abandon it’s endeavor to create a nuclear bomb. Here’s what DEBKAfile reported on May 19th: “Netanyahu and Ehud Barak have […]

More than two dozen gay and lesbian couples in Illinois plan to file lawsuits Wednesday arguing that it’s unconstitutional for the state to deny them the right to marry, a move advocates hope will lead to legalized same-sex marriage in Illinois. The two lawsuits — backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois and […]

The House will vote this summer on continuing wide-ranging tax cuts first enacted under President George W. Bush, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Friday as the GOP sharpened its plans for confronting Democrats on one of the election’s top issues. In a memo to fellow Republican lawmakers, Cantor said the House would vote on […]

JERUSALEM — Members of the Syrian opposition are pressing to openly announce an affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood at a meeting scheduled to take place in Turkey later this week, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials. The opposition has been plagued by infighting, with competing divisions sparing with each other even since the movement […]

Senator Marco Rubio criticized the Obama administration for cooperating with a Hollywood moviemaker on a film about the top-secret Navy unit that killed Osama bin Laden, warning such actions could “impact the ability to carry out similar operations in the future.” It was “wrong” and “part of a troubling trend of chest- thumping” on the […]

The daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro has told an audience in San Francisco that she would vote for Barack Obama if she lived in this country. The Obama administration granted Mariela Castro a special visa to attend a San Francisco meeting where she promoted homosexual rights. “If we don’t change our patriarchal and homophobic […]

In 2009, President Barack Obama reportedly called members of the Tea Party “teabaggers.” It turns out that our fourth greatest president, first in so many things, may have been the first “teabagger” himself, as seen in the 1997 photograph above. Yes, that really is Barack Obama wearing a regimental coat and carrying a tricorn hat […]

(CNSNews.com) – Ahead of a mammoth United Nations sustainability conference in Rio de Janeiro next month, the Brazilian government has signaled a new push to get the U.N.’s top environmental body upgraded – a push long opposed by the United States. Brazil wants to breathe new life into an initiative — vigorously promoted since the […]

The White House has apparently undermined the secrecy that protects U.S. anti-jihadi operations because it wants to aid Hollywood’s quick production of a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to a statement from Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. E-mails released May 22 show “a damning story of […]

It could be said that a narcissist’s best friend is the reflection he sees of himself in the mirror. No other relationship comes close — unless the narcissist has the unique opportunity to meet another version of himself, which happened last week during the recent Group of Eight (G-8) summit at Camp David. “President Obama, […]