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| Good morning from Washington, where the Obama administration insists Americans should be able to purchase junk food with food stamps. Maine's governor argues that's nuts. Melissa Quinn has the latest. Did you know Planned Parenthood gets millions from United Way? Leah Jessen has numbers. One state gets serious about teaching America's founding documents. Faith Vander Voort reports. Plus: Diane Katz on Boeing's big sale to Iran, Mary Eberstadt on the left's dangerous language, and Stacey Dash on being a conservative in Hollywood. Oh, and it's Sunglasses Day. |
NewsUnited Way Affiliates Give $3 Million a Year to Planned Parenthood Among 76 United Way affiliates steering donations to the nation's largest abortion provider, chapters in Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin each gave over $170,000 in 2013 and 2014. Read More |
CommentaryThe Left Endangers the Rest of Us When It Uses Terms Like 'Haters' and 'Bigots' "Social media and other denigrations of religious believers as 'haters' and 'bigots' and the rest by so-called watchdog groups roll on—exactly as if words mean nothing," Mary Eberstadt writes in an excerpt from her new book on religious freedom. Read More |
NewsGovernor to Obama in Food Stamp Fight: 'Wake Up and Smell the Energy Drinks' Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who doesn't want to allow food stamps to be used to buy junk food, tells President Obama's agriculture secretary that the administration is hypocritical about its commitment to nutrition and healthy eating. Read More |
CommentaryIran's Unfriendly Skies With the blessing of the Obama administration, Boeing Co. has negotiated the sale of a fleet of new jets to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism. Read More |
NewsThis New Law Ensures South Carolina Students Will Study the Founding Documents "I think it's time we get back to the basics," state Rep. Chip Huggins says of his bill, which Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law. Read More |
Commentary'Clueless' Star Stacey Dash Talks About Being Pro-Life and Pro-Gun in Hollywood In an on-camera interview with Genevieve Wood, the actress talks about how her conservative beliefs come from a very personal place. Watch the Video |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans