Douglas Kmiec announced Sunday he will resign from his post as the U.S. ambassador to Malta following the release of a State Department report (PDF) criticizing Kmiec for dedicating too much of his working time to writing and speaking about his religious views, according to the Associated Press.
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Shortly before his appearance alongside Rep. Allen West, potential U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hasner and others at a “South Florida Tea Party Tax Rally” on Saturday, Donald Trump spoke with The Shark Tank, a conservative Florida blog, about his belief in a conspiracy to cover up the More…
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards briefly joined a debate on WAMU’s Diane Rehm Show Wednesday, where she refuted the notion that the federal money Planned Parenthood currently receives funds abortions indirectly.
“We have very, very strict federal auditing rules,” Richards said. “Federal funds are reimbursed for specific More…
During an Apr. 11 press conference and in public remarks in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann discusses what needs to be done about the federal budget, the future of higher education, repeal of health care reform and abortion.
Though last Friday’s near-government shutdown did not lead to a major defunding of Title X family planning programs, at least one anti-abortion group, Students for Life of America, still sees it as a “partial victory for the pro-life movement,” and is unlikely to give up the fight to defund Planned More…
Though congressional lawmakers avoided a federal government shutdown by agreeing to a short-term funding extension late Friday and early Saturday, there’s still concern that the deal negotiated between President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut $38.5 billion of government More…
Updated April 10, 12:11 p.m. EST with two excerpts of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s video address at Friday’s Awakening conference in Lynchburg, Va.
Stuck in Washington, D.C., on Friday night as lawmakers pounded out a tentative budget deal and averted a federal government shutdown, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) had to More…
A potential GOP candidate getting flak from Fox News’ conservative anchors for criticizing President Obama? That was the case for Tim Pawlenty on Wednesday when the Fox and Friends new macho image isn’t sitting well with some of Fox News’ conservative anchors who called Pawlenty’s recent comments about President Obama, More…
Tim Pawlenty’s courting of young voters with pop-culture references didn’t go unnoticed by one media icon: Stephen Colbert. At a gathering of Iowa college Republicans Saturday, Pawlenty said Barack Obama won’t keep the youth vote because “he duped the young people in this country.” Dropping references to Charlie More…
Senator Mark Udall today sent House Speaker John Boehner a letter urging him to allow the government to be shut down.
In addition to Udall, 15 other senators–including Michael Bennet–signed the letter.
In addition to Udall and Bennet, the letter was signed by senators Tom Carper (DE), Kay Hagan More…
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