(CNSNews.com) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.) defended his decision to block fellow Republican Ted Cruz’ (R-Tex.) threatened filibuster of a bill to raise the nation’s debt ceiling that contained no spending reduction concessions from the White House. “My job is to protect the country when I can and to step up and lead […]
(Update: The Ukraine Health Ministry reports 25 killed, 241 hospitalized after night of clashes in Kiev.) KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of police armed with stun grenades and water cannons attacked a large opposition camp in Ukraine’s capital on Tuesday that has been the center of nearly three months of anti-government protests after at least […]
(CNSNews.com) – Having failed in an earlier attempt to scupper the appointment of a prominent anti-Islamist Muslim to a statutory international religious freedom watchdog, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is actively trying to have him removed from the post. CAIR, a controversial lobby group that describes itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties and […]
In an age of self-aggrandizing athletes who obsess over their own greatness, it’s worth celebrating a player who points out who the real heroes are. On Saturday, the United States Olympic hockey team scored a dramatic 3-2 victory over Russia in a sudden death shootout. St. Louis Blues forward T.J. Oshie scored four times in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Financial markets were watching, the retirement accounts of millions of Americans on the line. Nervous senators were watching too, well aware that political fortunes could be on the line. So on perhaps the most important vote of the year, the Senate did something extraordinary this week: It tried to keep the vote […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Girl Scouts’ National Leadership Journeys program requires girls to embrace environmental justice, climate change and green energy in order to earn awards. The Journey Awards–“aimed at giving them the benefits of the Girl Scout “Keys to Leadership”: Discover, Connect, Take Action”–are described on the Girls Scouts website as being designed for girls […]
In Vancouver, Canada, cigarette machines are banned, but crack pipe vending machines are okay. Portland Hotel Society’s Drug Users Resource Centre (DURC) is the nonprofit group backing these vending machines in Vancouver and its director Kailin See said, “For us, this was about increasing access to safer inhalation supplies in the Downtown Eastside.” The Downtown Eastside […]
(CNSNews.com) – King Street Patriots founder Catherine Engelbrecht, one of many conservatives who claim they were unfairly targeted by the IRS when applying for tax-exempt status, told Congress Thursday that she is “more determined ever than before to stand before you and to all of America and say that I will not retreat.” “Know this,” she […]
We’ve got some creepy news from Hillary Clinton’s old stomping ground of Wellesley College. As reported by the Boston Globe, a realistic looking statue of a man in his tighty whities is freaking some women out at the college in Massachusetts. According to the college, the statue has been installed on the grounds of the […]
Following news that at least 1,800 personnel records for veterans were destroyed or purposely misplaced at the Nation Personnel Records Center (NPRC), U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) sent a letter today to NPRC Director Scott Levins seeking an explanation on how this could have occurred and what steps are being taken to prevent another incident. The NPRC […]
