MILWAUKEE (AP) — A leading voice in conservative radio who helped promote the Republican political agenda in Wisconsin but was outspoken in opposing Donald Trump, retired from his popular radio show Monday. Milwaukee talk radio host Charlie Sykes said his decision to end a 23-year run at WTMJ-AM was made before his opposition to Trump […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump donated $10,000 for a Jewish settlement in the West Bank in 2003. According to a tax filing, the Donald J. Trump Foundation made the donation to a U.S. nonprofit group that raises funds for the Beit El settlement’s seminary, a news organization affiliated with the settler movement and […]
With outstanding student loan debt now exceeding $1.3 trillion, it is no wonder that the sticker price of college tuition has gotten a lot of attention in 2016. Yet few proposals have gotten to the root of the college cost problem. Despite overwhelming evidence that more federal subsidies for higher education increase tuition prices, policies […]
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Women’s health advocates have delivered hundreds of condoms to Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s (AY’-ahtz) office in New Hampshire bearing the message “Protect Yourself from Trump.” The delivery from Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund ties together two issues that have landed Ayotte in the news. Last week, her campaign handed […]
White House Spokesman Josh Earnest says the Obama Administration “has prided itself and made transparency in government a genuine priority,” as the Associated Press reports 77% of Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests are censored or completely denied. “This administration has prided itself and made transparency in government a genuine priority and he (President Obama) believes the […]
The Obama administration’s Department of Energy has churned through a list of energy efficiency regulations before the next administration. Just since June, the DOE has set or initiated standards for dehumidifiers, ceiling fans, battery chargers, and wine coolers. At issue isn’t health or safety, or even unfair business practices. Through the DOE, the federal government […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Obama Administration will be publishing a new regulation in the Federal Register on Thursday that “makes it clear that an individual can use whichever restroom matches their gender identity,” Ashley Nash-Hahn, a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration (GSA), told CNSNews.com. The Federal Management Regulation bulletin “clarifies that existing civil rights law and regulation explicitly applies to all federal locations […]
Well-meaning laws designed to nab high-level criminals have been twisted to siphon off money from law-abiding American citizens. The latest abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws involves air and rail travelers being targeted and fleeced by a federal agency. The Drug Enforcement Administration is pulling Americans’ travel data en masse from airline and Amtrak records, […]
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) (AP) (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) unveiled what he called the Republicans’ “policy agenda” for 2017 on Wednesday, including a plan to regain the legislative power granted to Congress in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. “Article One,” Ryan said at a pen and pad briefing with reporters at […]
(CNSNews.com) – Isolationism “will lead to another 9/11,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. He said the problem with the Obama-Clinton regime was a failure to intervene when they should have: “Obama did not intervene in Iraq. We had Iraq in a good place. He withdrew all of our forces, […]
