WASHINGTON (AP) — With flight delays mounting, the Senate approved hurry-up legislation Thursday night to end air traffic controller furloughs blamed for inconveniencing large numbers of travelers. A House vote on the measure was expected as early as Friday, with lawmakers eager to embark on a weeklong vacation. Under the legislation, which the Senate passed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — You don’t see this very often: a majority of Senate Republicans voting to make people who buy stuff on the Internet pay state and local sales taxes. Anti-tax guru Grover Norquist isn’t happy about it and the conservative Heritage Foundation is questioning the senators’ conservative credentials. But the issue of taxing Internet […]
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — In a move that would capitalize on provisions under President Barack Obama’s health care law but could cost the federal government millions of dollars, Washington state lawmakers have found a creative way to pass a large chunk of their health care expenses along to Washington, D.C. — and analysts say others […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union With Candy Crowley,” said the FBI dropped the ball on Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects. In 2011, responding to concerns raised by the Russian government, the FBI looked into Tamerlan’s activities, but the FBI said […]
(CNSNews.com) – Actress Susan Sarandon on Wednesday advocated for the legalization of marijuana, saying she would “like to see everybody be able to smoke pot,” and “it would completely save our ass if we legalize just marijuana.” “I believe in individual rights. I mean I would like to see everybody be able to smoke pot. […]
(CNSNews.com) – A new Gallup poll finds almost 6 in ten Americans believe that money and wealth should be more evenly distributed among a larger percentage of Americans, while one third think the current distribution is “fair.” Slightly more than half of Americans (52 percent) want government to do the redistribution by taxing the wealthy. […]
(CNSNews.com) – As threats from North Korea makes headlines in northeast Asia and around the world, Secretary of State John Kerry, in his weekend visit to the region, gave high priority to a different subject – one that he is passionate about – “anthropogenic” global warming and his contention that the science is settled. At […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama’s proposed budget would simultaneously compel Americans to enroll in a tax-deferred retirement account and “prohibit” them from saving more than $3 million in such accounts. That sum, Obama’s budget argues, is all that is “needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving.” Under current law, American who save money in […]
(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is launching an advertising campaign to “educate the public” about housing discrimination, saying there is a “persistence of discrimination based on religion.” The public service announcement campaign will feature television, radio and print ads in English, Spanish, and Chinese around the theme “Fair Housing […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Rand Paul (R- Ky.) said keeping the same-sex marriage debate at the state level will allow supporters of traditional marriage to turn public opinion that he said is shifting to the other side. “If we say we believe in a federally mandated one man, one woman marriage, we’re going to lose that […]
