Lawmakers Lob Pressing But Cordial Obamacare Questions at New Pick to Lead HHS

  Photo: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM/Getty Images While some predicted a harsh referendum on the President’s health care law, Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s first confirmation hearing to lead the Health and Human Services Department was free of congressional fireworks. Burwell, currently the director for the Office of Management and Budget, testified today before the Senate Health, Education, […]

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Moviegoers Focus on Pro-Family Film

Audience for ‘Irreplaceable’ gathers in Louisville, Ky. (Photo: Steve Watters via Twitter) Crowds packed out 723 theaters coast to coast as the movie “Irreplaceable” premiered last night to a total audience topping 97,000, Focus on the Family said. Many showings in the “one night only” event sold out – in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Seattle, St. […]

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The Assault on Free Speech

We have been witnessing a growing assault on free speech in America by the Left and too often it is succeeding. The demand by members of the Rutgers University faculty that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice be disinvited to be the commencement speaker is the latest example and her decision to withdraw, while graceful, […]

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Nigerian Islamic Group Boko Haram Threatens to Sell Almost 300 Kidnapped Girls

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s Islamic extremist leader is threatening to sell the nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls abducted from a school in the remote northeast three weeks ago, in a new videotape received Monday. Abubakar Shekau for the first time also claimed responsibility for the April 15 mass abduction, warning that his group plans to […]

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Only One Vote Away from Banning Prayer

On Monday, religious and traditionally-minded Americans celebrated as the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that public town halls could open their meetings with prayers. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the Court, found: The town of Greece does not violate the First Amend­ment by opening its meetings with prayer that comports with our tradition […]

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Kerry Snubs Benghazi Subpoena

Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry today refused to comply with a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 21. Kerry’s refusal is a far cry from his fulsome promises to cooperate with Congress made as he was taking over from Hillary Clinton. Again, the […]

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State Department Big Lies

John Kerry repeats them ad nauseam. They come in country reports. They’re in press releases. They’re in daily briefings. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It reminds governments of their obligation to support it. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; […]

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State ‘Model’ for Obamacare Says $180M Website Too Broken to Fix

Photo: Arco Images G/Newscom Massachusetts is the latest state to walk away from its online health insurance exchange. Officials announced today that Massachusetts Health Connector — the agency in charge of the state’s health exchange under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act — plans to abandon its website, the Boston Globe reported. The agency will buy […]

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