21221223435 by YardieGoals Detroit Free Press: Nicki Minaj didn’t win any awards at Sunday’s Grammy awards, but her odd performance is sure to garner some second-day analysis today, especially among Catholics. Minaj, who was nominated for Best New Artist, came to the red carpet with a man dressed as a pope. She later performed her [...]
(Fox News) — Despite renewed statements of concern by Catholic leaders and lawmakers, the Obama administration is done negotiating and will finalize its plan requiring insurance companies to provide free contraception to women working and studying at religious institutions, President Obama’s chief of staff said Sunday. Jacob Lew told “Fox News Sunday” that the compromise [...]
(CNSNews.com) — Twenty-five Notre Dame faculty members–led by the university’s top ethics expert, and including some of the school’s most eminent scholars — have signed a statement declaring that President Barack Obama’s latest version of his administration’s mandate that all health insurance plans in the United States must cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including [...]
Def-Con Hill: A ticker-tape parade for the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants on Tuesday has helped spark a growing national debate over how veterans coming back from the Iraq War should be honored. “Getting Super Bowl-champ football players a parade in their hometowns is never an issue. But Iraq War veterans?” Paul Rieckhoff, founder [...]
The Hill: Rick Santorum suggested on Sunday that Mitt Romney’s campaign may have rigged a straw poll of conservative activists by paying the entrance fee for supporters. Romney beat Santorum by 7 points Saturday in a straw poll of almost 3,500 attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Santorum pointed out that Ron Paul [...]
(Reuters) – The Greek parliament approved a deeply unpopular austerity bill to secure a second EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, as buildings burned across central Athens and violence spread around the country. Cinemas, cafes, shops and banks were set ablaze in central Athens as black-masked protesters fought riot police outside parliament. State television reported [...]
FireAndreaMitchell.com: The violent left wing loons are at it again, and are now targeting state senators and their families. Mark Grisanti Republican New York state Senator from the Buffalo area.Grisanti and his wife were viciously attacked after Mr. and Mrs. Grisanti were at the Indian Casino to listen to their daughter sing for the Seneca [...]
On the third day of her tour to promote the second anniversary of her Lets Move! initiative, Michelle Obama performs the Platypus Walk with children and Disney stars at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.
Washington (AP) – The White House has announced this morning that President Barack Obama will sing the opening and closing songs at Whitney Houston’s yet-to-be-scheduled memorial service. In a statement released exclusively to the Associated Press, the White House revealed that President Obama personally called Bobby Brown to first offer his condolences, and then offered [...]
Mediaite: Andrew Breitbart took the podium at CPAC Friday afternoon, introduced to the stage with Rage Against The Machine’s Guerilla Radio, and revealed to the audience he had “videos” of Barack Obama from his college days. “I have videos, this election we’re going to vet him,” Breitbart disclosed to raucous applause. “We are going to [...]
Fox News: Mitt Romney edged out Ron Paul to win the Maine Republican presidential caucuses Saturday, capping a strong day for the campaign following a string of setbacks earlier in the week. The Maine GOP announced Saturday evening that Romney received 39 percent of the vote in the state’s nonbinding contest. Paul came in second, [...]
CPAC 2012: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin unloaded on President Barack Obama and the Washington D.C. establishment during an address that closed out the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Before a jam-packed crowd, with hundreds more watching on monitors in the convention center hallways and overflow rooms, Palin attacked the Obama economic agenda from [...]
Fox News: Mitt Romney has won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an unofficial endorsement from party activists that nevertheless helps the former Massachusetts governor burnish his conservative image. The Republican presidential candidate won with 38 percent of the vote at the Washington conference, the leading annual meet-up of American conservatives. [...]
