DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia put into effect a sweeping new counterterrorism law Sunday that human rights activists say allows the kingdom to prosecute as a terrorist anyone who demands reform, exposes corruption or otherwise engages in dissent. The law states that any act that “undermines” the state or society, including calls […]
(CNSNews.com) – Solar power, which President Barack Obama promoted in his State of the Union Address, accounted for 0.2 percent of the U.S. electricity supply in the first nine months of 2013, according to data published by the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration. That is up from the 0.02 percent of the total electricity supply […]
(CNSNews.com) – Abortionists terminated the lives of 83,750 babies in New York City in 2010, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest “Abortion Surveillance” report, which was published on Nov. 29, 2013. That is more than enough people to sell out MetLife Stadium, site of this year’s Super Bowl, which is located […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) says if President Obama wants to get something done, he has to work with Congress, even if it’s not easy: “That’s why you get involved and you figure out how to compromise,” Hoeven told CNN’s “Crossfire” on Monday. “But he’s got to understand that you don’t come and dictate […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Constitution says the President of the United States “shall from time to time” give Congress “information” on “the State of the Union.” But as President Barack Obama prepares to report to the American people next Tuesday, his White House is turning things around, inviting the American people to report to him. […]
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a brief self-congratulatory trip to Tripoli, Libya, in October 2011 — with U.S. military assets lurking offshore in case they needed to rescue her — she joked, in the presence of then-Ambassador Gene Cretz and Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman, that they had not-so-long-ago been worried that […]
On Wednesday, Pres. Obama declared today “Religious Freedom Day” – even as his administration continues its court fights against those seeking religious liberty. While fighting 91 different lawsuits against his HHS mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for abortifacients and contraceptives, Obama even vowed to “remain committed to promoting religious freedom” in his proclamation: “America […]
(CNSNews.com) – On August 16, 2012–a little less than a month before the terrorist attacks on the U.S. State Department and CIA facilities in Benghazi, Libya–Amb. Chris Stevens sent a cable to State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. stating that a CIA officer on the ground in Benghazi had briefed a State Department officer in […]
(CNSNews.com) – “You have given up your freedom of choice,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned Americans on Tuesday, as the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal released their latest Index of Economic Freedom. The Index shows that the United States no longer ranks among the top-ten freest economies in the world. When President Obama […]
(CNSNews.com) – Back channel, bilateral talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in 2012-13 took place despite a pledge by Vice President Joe Biden last February that the administration would not hold such talks in secret. Hours after multilateral “P5+1” talks on Iran’s nuclear program delivered an agreement in Geneva last November, the Associated Press reported […]
