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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday contradicted President Barack Obama on whether the health care reform bill will lead to a decrease in health care premiums. Read More

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R.-Okla.) said there was no evidence that the Drudge Report had been responsible for viruses appearing on Senate computers and said he was encouraging people to read the Drudge Report. Read More

Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat from Michigan, "remains optimistic" that he can work out language with House Democratic leaders on federal funding of abortion, the main sticking point in getting a health care bill to President Obama's desk. Read More

In a speech to commemorate the 1965 'Bloody Sunday' civil rights protest in Selma, Ala., Education Secretary Arne Duncan referred to certain failing public schools in America as 'dropout factories' and places that 'seem to suspend and discipline only young African-American boys.' Read More

Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas is holding a gala next month to raise money for its new abortion clinic, which will be specially equipped for performing late-term abortions. Read More

Kevin Jennings, the Obama administration's safe-schools czar declined Monday to directly say whether the Department of Education should promote teaching school children that homosexual behavior is morally good. Read More

Two weeks after promising to check on the matter, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs still did not have an answer to the charge by Pennsylvania Senate candidate Rep. Joe Sestak that the Obama administration offered him a job in exchange for abandoning his primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). Read More

A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 55 percent of Americans think that Congress should throw the current health care plan out and start fresh, suggesting that President Obama's demand that Congress pass his reform proposal has failed to sway the public. Read More

President Barack Obama has chosen a suburban St. Louis high school to make his closing argument for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast. Read More

An Iranian whose fiancée was killed during post-election protests last year made an impassioned appeal Tuesday for Iran to be denied a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council in elections this spring. Read More

Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform -- and more rigorous -- standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were released. Read More

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told CNSNews.com that he does not support closing Guantanamo Bay at this time after visiting the prison and looking at the issue. Read More

Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the current and former House Republican whips, told Defense Secretary Gates they are "concerned" that a "new litmus test" was being applied when the Air Force dis-invited the conservative Tony Perkins from a Feb. 25 prayer event at Andrews AFB.  Read More

Republicans appear to be winning the battle of ideas, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey of American voters that found the GOP is trusted more than Democrats on eight out of 10 policy issues. Read More

Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Palestinians deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory, seeking to reassure them of U.S. support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem. Read More

Preparing for Burma's first election in two decades, the military junta has begun to unveil polling laws that indicate it intends to retain control beneath a veneer of democracy. Read More

China told the United States on Wednesday to make stronger commitments on climate change and provide environmental expertise and financing to developing nations. Read More

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday it's the United States that is playing a 'double game' in Afghanistan, fighting terrorists it once supported. Read More

At least three Swedish newspapers on Wednesday published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog after an alleged plot to murder the artist who created it was uncovered in Ireland. Read More

Readers suggested the photo should have been placed in the paper's Metro section or not run at all.  Read More

The Times stands up for Obama administration lawyers who had previously defended Al Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo, fiercely attacking a conservative group for making their service an issue. Yet the Times did not hesitate to attack Bush administration... Read More

On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC News Live, host David Shuster tossed softballs to an 11-year-old supporter of Obamacare. However, back in 2009, reporter Norah O'Donnell grilled a conservative teen and fan of Sarah Palin. Read More

HDNet's Dan Rather, in a piece for the Huffington Post, apologized for his use of the word "watermelons" during a segment about Barack Obama's ability to pass health care, that was aired on the March 8 Chris Matthews Show. In his explanation Rather o... Read More

ABC and CBS on Tuesday night picked up on the cause of a small anti-health insurance industry protest in DC organized by left-wing labor groups, but instead of denigrating them as the networks did with much larger Tea Party and anti-ObamaCare rallies... Read More

Concluding a report on proposed soda taxes across the country on Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Michelle Miller gleefully proclaimed how such a tax would help fight obesity and fill local government coffers: "New York's mayor estimates a ta... Read More

MSNBC Host David Shuster on Tuesday continued to attack the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) for the organization's reference to Charlie Rangel as a "Harlem Democrat." He reiterated, "I pointed out the NRCC did not call him a corrup... Read More

Late night talk show host and author Chelsea Handler was invited on Tuesday's Today show to plug her new book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang and couldn't leave the show without taking a dig at earlier guest Karl Rove, as well as Sarah Palin who she called... Read More

NBC's Ann Curry invited former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to promote his new book of conspiracy theories, on Tuesday's Today show, and pressed the former professional wrestler to throw out the loony charge that the Bush administration had forek... Read More

At the top of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "President Obama makes a tough final push, going on the offensive against health insurance companies. Will it work?" Later, co-host Maggie Rodriguez gushed: "It looked like a cam... Read More

ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday showed little interest in grilling Robert Gibbs over serious allegations made by a Democratic Congressman. Talking to the White House press secretary, he could only manage a single question: "[Representative Mas... 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

The media quickly adopted the conventional Democrat wisdom that government was "broken" because liberals couldn't pass ultraliberal bills. That wasn't their line during the last presidency. Read More