Supreme Court Reviews Government Role in Church Disputes
The Supreme Court is taking its first hard look at how far government may intrude on the relationship between religious organizations and their employees.The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in...
View ArticleHouse-Senate Negotiators Unveil Bundled Spending Bill; Doesn't Cut Enough,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House and Senate negotiators have agreed on a bundle of spending measures for the ongoing budget year, blending cuts to NASA and community development programs while averting cuts to...
View ArticleIxnay on Cordray: Not another Obama czar
Wrapping himself in the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt's "National Greatness" agenda, President Obama urged the nation to stand strong and unite behind ... his umpteenth regulatory czar. Nothing...
View ArticleHouse GOP tries flanking move to avoid looming shutdown
Seeking to outflank Democrats, House Republicans announced early Thursday morning they had introduced a new 1,219-page spending bill to keep the government open past Friday, when current funding is...
View ArticleGallup: Under Obama, Growing Percentage See Big Government as 'Biggest Threat'
(CNSNews.com) - While President Barack Obama has focused his rhetoric in recent weeks on depicting a reckless Wall Street and insufficiently taxed "millionaires and billionaires" as threats to the...
View ArticleMedia Abet Obama's Aloofness on Tough Issues
Over the past five months, the Republican presidential candidates participated in 13 debates where they fielded dozens of penetrating questions on every major issue facing the nation, and some not so...
View ArticlePoll: Gov't favorability at 15-year low
A decade ago, Americans felt similarly about their local, state and federal governments. No longer.Today, just one in three has a favorable view of the federal government — the lowest level in 15...
View ArticleTop EPA official resigns after 'crucify' comment
A top EPA official has resigned after coming under scrutiny for 2010 remarks in which he compared the agency's enforcement strategy to Roman crucifixion. Al Armendariz, the top environmental official...
View ArticleCBO: Federal spending dropping but trillion-dollar deficit still likely
The federal government ran a $60 billion deficit in June and is already more than $900 billion in the red this fiscal year, but there is some bright news: basic government spending appears to be...
View ArticleFederal Government's Debt Jumps More Than $1T for 5th Straight Fiscal Year
By the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2012, the new debt accumulated in this fiscal year by the federal government had already exceeded $1 trillion, making this fiscal year the fifth straight in...
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