By Katie Yoder | July 14, 2015 | 3:01 PM EDT Planned Parenthood thinks it can put a price on a baby: $30 to $100 per part. An undercover investigative video released July 14 appeared to show a Planned Parenthood executive confess that her taxpayer-funded organization sells the body parts of aborted babies by using the partial-birth […]
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) denounced President Barack Obama’s decision to open an embassy in Cuba before Washington has an embassy in Jerusalem. “How sad is it that under the Obama administration the United States is going to have an embassy in Havana before we have an embassy in Jerusalem?” Cruz said Wednesday’s on […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online July 14, 2015 Barack Obama has repeatedly signaled during the past six and a half years that that his No. 1 priority in foreign affairs is not China, not Russia, not Mexico, but Iran. He wants to bring Iran in from the cold, to transform the Islamic Republic into […]
By Chris Cillizza July 14 at 12:04 PM Jeb Bush’s fundraising totals for the first half of 2015 were eye-popping: $114 million raised ($103 million of which came through his Right to Rise super PAC) with a stunning $98 million in the bank. But, as amazing as Bush’s haul was, it’s Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s […]
By Robert Costa July 14 at 6:34 PM Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and real-estate mogul Donald Trump — each running for the Republican presidential nomination as anti-establishment outsiders — are cultivating an already chummy relationship at this early stage of the 2016 race and will huddle Wednesday in New York. The meeting was confirmed by […]
United States senators from both sides of the aisle sat together during an intimate panel Tuesday to discuss the growing bipartisan momentum to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system. On the heels of President Obama’s clemency grants to 46 nonviolent prisoners — and the White House’s revived push for reform — the senators reinforced their […]
Iranian FM calls deal ‘new chapter of hope’ in official announcement, as EU foreign chief calls it a ‘sign of hope to the world.’ By Ari Yashar An official announcement of the Iran nuclear deal was made early Tuesday afternoon in Vienna by negotiators from Iran, the EU, and the P5+1 group of world powers including […]
HAMPTON, Iowa— Campaigning here Monday afternoon, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that all federal funding must be cut off to sanctuary cities that refuse to assist in helping the federal government enforce immigration laws. Sanctuary cities have been a controversial topic in the news after San Francisco officials released from custody an illegal immigrant […]
As Senate Republicans continue to discuss using reconciliation to roll back provisions of Obamacare, House Conservatives are encouraging their colleagues to follow through on their campaign promises and move forward with repealing the health care law. Republicans passed a budget resolution in May that included broad reconciliation instructions, which many members believed would be used […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that if nuclear talks with major powers succeeded, the world would see that Tehran had solved its biggest political problem by negotiation and logical argument, Reuters reported, citing an Iranian news agency. “Even if the nuclear talks fail, our diplomacy showed the world that we are logical. We […]
