Question: Does the Obama administration claim the right to force Americans to cooperate in killing their own grandchildren? Answer: Yes. On the face of it, this seems like an outrageous claim. But it is true. The outrage is what the government is demanding Americans do. The Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — includes a […]
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner will not be attending aweekend retreat hosted byThe Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC— whose goal is to elect moderate GOP candidates and protect Republican incumbents from Tea Party challengers — because of a scheduling conflict, a GOP aide told CNSNews.com. But Boehner’s top two lieutenants, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) […]
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4302, a bill preventing a 24 percent cut in what physicians are paid under Medicare for 12 months. It’s the annual “doc fix” dance. On the bill’s merits, Heritage health scholar Robert Moffit gave careful review of the legislation yesterday. Essentially, The Heritage Foundation would give the legislation […]
House Speaker John Boehner (R–OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) have just reached an agreement on a temporary, 12-month Medicare “doc fix” that would block a 24 percent cut in Medicare physician payment, which was scheduled to go into effect on April 1. It would also keep Medicare physician rates flat until March […]
The U.S. Justice Department is telling the Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing the embryo from implanting in his or her mother’s uterus is not an “abortion” and, thus, drugs that kill embryos this way are not “abortion-inducing” drugs. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of […]
(CNSNews.com) – Four years after the House passed Obamacare, former Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) told Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto Wednesday that he does not regret voting for it. “No, I don’t regret the vote. I’m proud of the vote. I always felt that health care should be a right, not a privilege in this […]
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane. Photo: Newscom/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/ZUMAPRESS.com Over the weekend, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams criticized Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s decision to shut down a three-year investigation that caught at least five Pennsylvania Democrats taking bribes in exchange for votes and contracts—including voting against the state’s voter ID law. Williams’s criticism came in […]
Photo: Getty Images In a speech challenging the abortion industry and its portrayals in today’s mainstream culture, pro-life activist Lila Rose, president of Live Action, criticized the “system” that has been “set up against women, not to empower us but to hurt us.” “Abortion has been sold to us as empowerment,” Rose said, speaking Friday […]
Photo: Sean Gardner/Getty Images As the date for the oral arguments in the Supreme Court case over the Health and Human Services mandate nears, Newt Gingrich is concerned that Americans could be on the cusp of a significant loss of religious liberty. “I think we’re in grave danger of losing our liberty and losing our […]
During the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney called Russia the United States’ “number one geopolitical foe”—and was widely derided by those supposedly in the know. In a debate last fall, President Obama mocked Romney, saying, “Governor Romney, I’m glad that you recognize that al-Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked […]
