Russia has rejected U.S. demands to hand over NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who leaked secrets pertaining to the government surveillance program. Russia’s foreign minister said Tuesday that American demands for the extradition of NSA leaker Edward Snowden were “ungrounded and unacceptable.”
In light of the momentum, which has culminated with Ohio Governor Kasich enjoying an all-time high approval rating, I just may have to move Ohio to safe Republican.
The progressive left who are staunch opponents of Texas’ SB 5, which bans abortions after 20 weeks, are in an uproar that is showing their true extremism as it pertains to the issue of abortion.
The affirmative action case brought by Abigail Fisher regarding college admissions survived a Supreme Court review Monday in a consensus decision that side stepped the difficult constitutional issues surrounding a challenge to the University of Texas admission plan.
Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator and 2012 GOP presidential candidate, has a new job — one that should both inspire and excite social conservatives and Christians. Today, EchoLight Studios, a faith-based movie company, distributed a press release announcing that the former politician will serve as its new CEO, which he appeared on Huckabee over the weekend to announce as well.
Typically, we are all led to believe that the abortion issue is a loser for Republicans, thus the passage of the “District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” in the House on June 18 would normally bode badly for the GOP.
However, when we wade through the constructed reality we find that just the opposite is true. Democrats locked in “toss-up” or otherwise competitive races in conservative districts who felt compelled to fall in line with Nancy Pelosi will soon find themselves under assault from pro-life independent expenditure groups.
U.S. stock-index futures are extending a steep selloff that started in Asia on the back of worries about credit conditions in China and lingering concerns about the Fed’s plans to slow its bond buying. Dow futures are down 136 points, or 0.92%, while S&P 500 futures are off 1% in choppy trading. Treasury bonds are taking heavy losses as well, with the yield on the 10-year jumping 0.06 percentage point to 2.606%.
President Barack Obama says he’ll unveil a national plan to combat climate change in a speech Tuesday. On the online White House video, Obama said:
We’ll need all of our citizens to do our part to preserve God’s creation for future generations.
Edward Snowden, the former contractor and NSA whistleblower who exposed secrets about the federal government’s surveillance programs, left Hong Kong legally Sunday with the help of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and now his plane has landed in Russia.
From the onset of the revelations regarding
