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Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, named the most conservative senator of 2009 by the National Journal, told CNSNews.com he intends to lead a new effort to defend earmarking. Read More

No Congress in which the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate has balanced the federal budget since fiscal 1969--more than 40 years ago. Read More

The State Department's latest report on human rights practices details human rights concerns in Mexico, including the 8,000 people who died in that country from drug-related violence. But none of the 30 U.S. citizens who were killed in Mexico between Jan. 1, 2009 and June 27, 2009 are included in the report. Read More

The slayings came amid a surge in bloodshed along Mexico's border with Texas and drew condemnation from the White House. Read More

A conservative pro-military group is defending a statement it issued,  and which was signed by more than 1,000 retired generals and admirals, in support of a 1993 federal law that says it is illegal for homosexuals or bisexuals to serve in the U.S. military. The signed statement is being criticized by a homosexual activist group that is relying on a PBS news report about the issue. Read More

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told NBC and CNN in separate interviews that the Israeli decision was 'insulting,' and on Sunday, President Obama's advisor David Axelrod, on ABC's This Week, called it an 'affront' and 'destructive.' Read More

President Obama on Monday planned to visit Strongsville, Ohio, the home of a cancer patient who wrote to the president, telling him she gave up her health insurance after it rose to $8,500 a year. Read More

Academy-Award winning actor Tom Hanks told CNSNews.com on Thursday that ignorance and racism are going away in America, but 'it's just taking an awfully long time' for racism to be replaced by acceptance Read More

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that the Department of State is soliciting comments from citizens, advocacy groups and other non-governmental organizations on the human rights record of the United States. Read More

The U.S. Census Bureau has changed its interpretation of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to allow it to tabulate same-sex couples who self-identify their union as a marriage, even though DOMA prohibits legal recognition of same-sex unions as marriages. Read More

The government must do something beyond the pending health care bill to reduce the 'appalling' U.S. death rate for women having babies, Amnesty International says. Read More

Leading the vote count in seven of Iraq's 18 provinces, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki looks well-placed to head negotiations to form a governing coalition, although final results are not expected before the end of the month. Read More

For more than two decades, Social Security collected more money in payroll taxes than it paid out in benefits. Not anymore. Read More

Fast-growing states in the South and the West could stand to lose the most because of lower-than-average mail participation rates in 2000 and higher shares of Hispanics and young adults, who are among the least likely to mail in their forms. Read More

The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego freeway last week. Read More

A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a U.S. official said Monday. Read More

The U.S. military handed over control of a prison holding some 2,900 detainees to Iraqi authorities on Monday as the Americans move ahead with preparations for a full withdrawal by the end of 2011. Read More

Medical marijuana advocates are gathering signatures for a voter referendum to block a recently passed Los Angeles law that will shutter hundreds of pot shops. Read More

Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, decried the GOP for obstructing Obamacare as he scolded the Republican Party as "nasty" and "narrow in it's appeal" and strangely accused it of no longer being "a party of grand conservatism," as if opposing the ... Read More

Good Morning America's Jake Tapper on Monday interviewed a woman selected by the White House to represent victims of the health care industry. Tapper emphasized the sad case of Natoma Canfield, a cancer victim who "had to drop her Anthem Blue Cross/B... Read More

The White House may have to waterboard its congressional allies to compel enough Democrats to support the health care bill and Congress will definitely have to raise taxes if the bill passes, insisted Bob Schieffer, host of Face the Nation on CBS, th... Read More

NBC's Savannah Guthrie gave little time to the GOP view on health care, on Monday's Today, as the reporter offered only one soundbite to a Republican compared to four Democrats in favor of the health care bill. Read More

Three weeks after the mom on ABC’s Brothers & Sisters fretted over GOP “denying global warming,” the ABC drama was centered around her daughter, a GOP Senate candidate, coming under attack from conservative rubes who think she used her influence to g... Read More

In 2008, just four years after leaving NBC News, Jane Pauley gave the maximum allowed donation to Barack Obama and campaigned for him, proclaiming “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that Bible on Inauguration Day” and predicted O... Read More

ABC’s Cokie Roberts, who last December asserted that a "lot of people are going to like a whole lot once they see what's in" ObamaCare, during the Sunday, March 14, This Week on ABC defended the "substance" of the health care bill Democrats in the Ho... Read More

On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, during a discussion of Mitt Romney's recent altercation with rapper Sky Blu on an airplane, host Maher suggested that Romney might have been motivated by racism in confronting the rapper as the he brought... Read More

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday moderated a group of mostly liberal voices to sympathize with Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy and, at times, former Representative Eric Massa. Speaking of the politician who spent the week... Read More

Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accuses Fox News of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and accuses the network of having "overturned standards of fa... Read More

The media were fascinated by a woman discussing her chemical abortion -- as it happened -- on Twitter and YouTube. But it wasn't worthy of debate, just praise. Read More

It's quite shocking to see a high-profile American faith take so much abuse from Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers of America. Read More

Network anchors reporters cried foul when Sen. Jim Bunning temporarily held up a spending bill extending unemployment benefits. Bunning should have told the reporters to go bother their own network bosses if they wanted to badger a layoff villain. Read More

Once Simon Cowell leaves the Fox hit, who can replace him? Rumors have Fox scraping the bottom of the barrel for aging shock jock Howard Stern and vile online gossip Perez Hilton. Read More