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President Barack Obama feels he has struck just the right budget balance between providing more short-term support for the economy while putting forth a long-term plan to get control of the government’s soaring budget deficits. Republicans vehemently disagree, attacking his 2013 budget as a replay of the failed economic policies they say have resulted in […]

Despite renewed statements of concern by Catholic leaders and lawmakers, the Obama administration is done negotiating and will finalize its plan requiring insurance companies to provide free contraception to women working and studying at religious institutions, President Obama’s chief of staff said Sunday. Jacob Lew told “Fox News Sunday” that the compromise offered last week […]

Richard A. Viguerie, the Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, issued the following statement regarding Mitt Romney’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in which he described himself as “severely conservative”: “In my 50 years in conservative politics at the national level, I have never heard anyone other than Governor Romney describe himself as ‘severely’ conservative. […]

As readers may know by now, 49 of 50 states have agreed to join the so-called mortgage settlement, with Oklahoma the lone refusenik. Although the fine points are still being hammered out, various news outlets (New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal) have details, with Dave Dayen’s overview at Firedoglake the best thus far. […]

A privacy advocacy group has swayed Congress to hold a hearing next week into the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of monitoring social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as media reports and organizations, including The Drudge Report. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) recently obtained close to 300 pages of documents, as […]

The Romney campaign is better at dismantling than mantling. They’re better at taking opponents apart than building a compelling candidate of their own. They do not seem capable of deepening his meaning, making his stands and statements more textured and interesting. He comes across like a businessman who studied the data and came up with […]

Right-leaning radio host Mark Levin launched a scathing attack on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney today, labeling the former Massachusetts governor “sleazy” and “poisonous.” On his Facebook page today, Levin tells Romney, “Conservatives have had enough of your sleazy campaign tactics.” Levin pointed to a CNN report, which noted that in the wake of Rick […]

(CNSNews.com) – Following his clean sweep in Tuesday’s nominating contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum sent his supporters a letter, making the case that he is the true conservative in the race. “Before I try and get some sleep, I had to sit down and write you this […]

Obama and his team are hypocrites. They claim to want clean elections and that Super PAC’s are the spawn of the rich evil elites that want to rule America. That must be why they are starting one. Obama has only one goal, the accumulation of power. He truly practices the ends justify the means.

(CNSNews.com) – House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Tuesday that the health-care reform plan that Gov. Mitt Romney signed in Massachusetts carried “seeds” of the national heatlh-care reform plan later signed by President Barack Obama. “Were there seeds for these policy ideas in Massachusetts? Sure I think there were,” Ryan told CNSNews.com Tuesday, […]

Mitt Romney’s statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP’s nominee for president — with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen — have been trying […]

I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops […]