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President Obama’s approval ratings continue to plummet. Americans’ approval of the president sunk to a new low at 40 percent according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday. Nearly half view the president negatively. NBC cites a drop among the support of Democrats and blacks as a key reason for the decline. Obama’s weakest rating…
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino is hoping to use Common Core frustration to his advantage. In a push to unseat Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Astorino is petitioning to create a “Stop Common Core” party to appear on New York’s upcoming election ballot. He anticipates the measure will garner support by uniting voters “across party lines,”…
Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., offered support for the Export-Import Bank in a recent interview even as he criticized the government for providing taxpayer-backed subsidies to U.S. companies — the crux of the federal agency’s function. Schock, sitting down with a Fox affiliate in his home state June 29, touted the benefits of the Export-Import Bank, which provides taxpayer-backed loans…
Jimmy Carter has a bold piece of advice for the United States and other world leaders: Ending Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza begins with recognizing the terrorist organization as a “legitimate political actor.” But a leading national security expert at The Heritage Foundation says the former president’s view couldn’t be further from reality. President Carter…
A Massachusetts liberal who helped mastermind new legal restrictions from Congress that shook up Wall Street now sees reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank as a chance for Democrats to win back business leaders most affected by the regulatory changes he pushed. In an interview with Huffington Post, former Rep. Barney Frank said extending the life…
It’s the first such proposal in almost 30 years, and incumbent members of the House of Representatives have no desire to see the complicated measure become a campaign issue this fall. And that’s a big reason why the ambitious tax reform plan introduced by House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., isn’t likely to…
Marine veteran Shawn Adkins says he’s ready to fight back against Obama’s so-called “war on coal” as it tears through West Virginia. Federal regulations are forcing a coal company to lay off an expected 1,100 workers in the coal-heavy state, stripping away what Adkins calls the “blood and oxygen” of families in the region.
Parents are increasingly voicing concern that public schools are collecting massive amounts of personal data on students, storing it and distributing it to third parties without their consent. Dawn Sweeney, a Pennsylvania mother, has two children in public schools and home-schools her younger three. She had planned to enroll them in public schools when they reached seventh…
Oakland City Council members who favor a minimum-wage increase have received campaign donations and research from wage-hike activists and labor unions. Last week, the council voted, 5-3, against a moderate proposal to raise the minimum wage over time and to exempt small businesses in the early stages so they could adjust. The council did so to…
If Charles Krauthammer had his way, he would legalize the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States—but only after the border was secured. Voicing his concern about President Obama’s use of executive power on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Krauthammer said Obama’s embrace of amnesty sends the wrong message to people from Central America.
Forty years after the Watergate scandal brought down President Richard Nixon, longtime TV anchor Dan Rather warned that it could happen again—and “it might be more possible to do it today.” Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley if another conspiracy could reach Watergate’s magnitude, the veteran newsman answered “an unequivocal yes.”
Economist Matthew Mitchell says ridesharing companies make a lot of sense in places such as Albuquerque, N.M., where he grew up. “There’s limited public transportation there, and there are a bunch of drunk 20-year-olds on a typical Friday and Saturday night,” he says with a laugh. But opponents, including regulators in various locales across the…
The home state of Boeing’s airplane division benefits the most from financing by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and by a huge margin, a state-by-state analysis shows. Using public data from the Export-Import Bank, a researcher at George Mason University analyzed the proportion of the federal agency’s disbursements each state received over the past seven years….
Want a look inside the secret tunnels that terrorist group Hamas has used to infiltrate Israel? Take a tour with Sean Hannity. The Fox News host traveled 40 feet underground with an Israel Defense Forces guide to explore one of the sophisticated passages. Among facts viewers learn: At a cost likely exceeding $2 million apiece, the…
As fewer unaccompanied children cross the southern border to enter the United States, officials say they no longer need to house them at military facilities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that it will suspend operations at three temporary shelters for young illegal immigrants on military bases, beginning with Fort Sill…
A discussion on “Fox News Sunday” about why congressional Republicans want to sue President Obama for abuse of executive power turned heated when commentator Juan Williams told Heritage Action CEO Michael Needham that conservatives across the country have “demonized” President Obama. Needham defended conservatives as “good people” worried about a “lawless president.” Needham, head of…
Jon Voight, the Oscar-winning actor and father of actress Angelina Jolie, says he is “heartsick” about two fellow Academy Award winners who denounce Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide.” “I am more than angry,” Voight writes in a guest column published in The Hollywood Reporter. “I am heartsick that people like Penelope Cruz and Javiar Bardem…
It’s one thing for President Obama to win an award for “Lie of the Year” for promising Americans “if you like your [health insurance] plan, you can keep it.” It must sting a bit more when a political ally like Barney Frank, the former congressman, flat out says the president “just lied to people.” In…
Civil rights activist Cornel West condemned President Obama over the weekend at a pro-Palestinian rally that brought thousands to the White House. “Barack Obama is a war criminal … because his drones have killed 233 innocent children and because he facilitates the killing of innocent Palestinians in Gaza,” West said. Protesters called for an end…
When CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell asked Michael Bloomberg if Israel had gone too far in its fight against Hamas, the former New York City mayor turned the tables, asking O’Donnell to consider what the American response would be in the same situation. If rockets rained down on the United States, Bloomberg said, “the same…