(AP) Islam won’t be basis of new Tunisian constitutionBy BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZAAssociated PressTUNIS, TunisiaIslamic law will not be enshrined in Tunisia’s new constitution, preserving the secular basis of the North African nation, Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda Party said Monday. The
(AP) Tibetan lights self on fire at anti-China protestBy TIM SULLIVANAssociated PressNEW DELHIA Tibetan exile lit himself on fire and ran shouting through a demonstration in the Indian capital Monday, just before a visit by China’s president and following dozens
This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case likely to shape our destiny as a nation when it considers whether parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–called the ACA in legal circles and Obamacare to the rest
The unregistered group “Women of the 99 Percent” has continued to place anti-Rush Limbaugh robocalls in battleground districts. Yesterday, the district in question was in Ohio, and it targeted Wadsworth Republican congressman Jim Renacci, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reports. According to
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores is hosting its annual RX Impact Day in Washington, DC this week. Its official, plain vanilla agenda lays out two days full of member events, Capitol Hill briefings and appointments with key Members
(AP) GOP targets new cost-cut board in Obama health lawBy RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama’s health care law: If they can’t repeal the whole thing, they’ll try to pick off pieces. Starting with a
In a soon to be released book, Professor Rick Hasen of Election Law Blog continues the left’s war against voter ID. What makes his effort different is that Professor Hasen claims to be taking on both the right and the left. While
(AP) Gas prices still climbing, top $4 in 6 statesBy The Associated PressGasoline prices rose again Friday and are now averaging more than $4 in six states and Washington, D.C. Oil had its biggest gain in three weeks and natural
The Obama administration announced on Friday a new proposal that will extend a mandate, already in place in ObamaCare, to require universities, including religious universities, to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs to their students, as well as their employees, free of charge. The
Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich appeared at Otto Engineering in Carpentersville, Illinois this afternoon and had a few choice words for Barack Obama. Newt told the president that he can be the fantasy algae guy and he, Newt, will be
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The Congressional Budget Office has extended its cost estimates for President Obama’s health care law out to 2022, taking in more years of full implementation, and showing that the bill is substantially more expensive
Remember when the Obama Administration, via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, vowed to hit the reset button with Russia? That hasn’t worked out too well. Yesterday, Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister, Anatoly Antonov, said that Russia would continue to abide by
In disturbing, yet not unexpected news, the police chief of Berkeley CA sent a uniformed police officer to a reporter’s home at 12:45 a.m. in order to have the reporter change the content of an online story he had written hours earlier.
Hollywood heart throb and activist George Clooney on Tuesday said Sudanese government forces are committing war crimes with attacks on civilians — including a rocket strike that he narrowly escaped. Clooney has long called attention to the war between Sudan
Reuters) – Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon plays a widow disappointed in her sons and unhappy with her life in new film comedy, “Jeff Who Lives at Home,” in U.S. theaters on Friday. The film stars Jason Segel as Jeff,
(AP) Romney increasingly hits Obama, ignores GOP rivalsBy CHARLES BABINGTONAssociated PressLIBERTY, Mo.Mitt Romney isn’t waiting to lock down the GOP presidential nomination to begin focusing his campaign chiefly on President Barack Obama. The trend is born of strategy and necessity.
(AP) CBO: Deficit estimate for 2012 hiked to $1.2TBy ANDREW TAYLORAssociated PressWASHINGTONA new estimate from congressional economists says the government will run a $1.2 trillion deficit for the budget year ending just a few weeks before Election Day. It would
(AP) Suit challenges federal licensing of tax preparersBy MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated PressMcLEAN, Va.After three decades as a part-time tax preparer, 80-year-old Elmer Kilian of Eagle, Wis., is concerned that new IRS regulations may prevent him from hanging out his shingle. Kilian
State Controller John Chaing continues to uphold the California Great Seal Motto of “Eureka”, i.e., ‘I have found it’. But what Chaing is finding as Controller is that California’s economy as measured by tax revenues is still tanking. Compared to
The Government Accountability Board (GAB) decided last month it would not accept input from the independent group, Verify the Recall, a volunteer project to run all 900,000 recall signatures against WI Gov. Scott Walker into a searchable online database after
(AP) Gasoline price jumps a nickel over the weekendBy CHRIS KAHNAP Energy WriterNEW YORKThe price of gasoline jumped by nearly a nickel over the weekend and is now $3.80 per gallon. That’s the highest ever for this time of year.
Sites like Fark make fun of Welch and scream hypocrite, but there’s a big difference between what we see in movies today and what we saw during Welch’s time. In the late 60’s and early 70’s, Welch epitomized womanhood, eroticism,
–Edmund Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac When I first met Andrew Breitbart just a few years ago, it was in passing. We walked through the hallway of some swanky hotel where a small group of conservatives gathered. Everyone else was in
The articles of the Afghanistan constitution open as follows: Article OneCh. 1. Art. 1 Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state. Article TwoCh. 1, Art. 2 The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Many commentators have noted in recent years that Americans have been leaving the labor force. Their departure has made interpretation of unemployment statistics more difficult, and because the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes six variants of the unemployment rate,
