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Options for Republicans Becoming Limited
Three more Republicans, who are high profile, announced on Monday that they were note willing to be candidates for the special election for the U.S. Senate. The decisions by the three leave the GOP with the possibility of having a relative unknown candidate in the battle for the former seat of John Kerry, the newly [...]
NRA Attacks Veiled Comment by Obama
Wayne LaPierre the Executive Vice President of the NRA has not been in the public eye since his appearance on the Meet the Press show last month was poorly received. However, on Tuesday night he appeared with the NRA’s response to a comment made during the inaugural speech of President Obama on Monday. In his [...]
Majority Support Obama’s Agenda Entering Second Term
As President Obama is set to start his second and final term in office, Americans broadly support both the way he has handed his presidency to date and the agenda he has for the second term, according to a recent poll released on Thursday. The recent poll shows that 52% of American adults approved of [...]
New York to Pass Gun Law Prompted by Massacre in Newtown
Lawmakers in New York have agreed to pass the nation’s toughest gun control law and the country’s first since the school shooting in Newtown. Connecticut. The law calls for a very tough ban on assault weapons and provisions to make sure guns are kept out of the possession of mentally ill people if they have [...]
Supreme Court Will Hear Anti-Prostitution Free Speech Rule
The U.S. Congress requires that groups that receive funds for fighting HIV and AIDS worldwide have a standard of opposing prostitution. On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear if the 1st Amendment prohibits the U.S. Congress from making it a requirement for groups receiving those funds to have a company policy that opposes prostitution. [...]
Panetta Puts Hiring Freeze in Place
Leon Panetta, the U.S. Defense Secretary ordered the different military services to get prepared for Defense Department cuts that will force the military to eliminate $52 billion of its fiscal budget for 2013 in six months. Leaders of the Defense Department authorized the measures as freezes in civilian hiring, delays in awarding contracts as well [...]
Biden Pushing Forward Will Meet NRA
Joe Biden, the U.S. Vice President will meet this week with representatives from the National Rifle Association along with experts in the mental health field as part of his effort to push forward actions of the task force established by the White Hours on gun control. The importance of looking in the areas of mental [...]
Clinton Admitted to Hospital Due to Blood Clot
Current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to be admitted to the hospital Sunday when her doctors discovered she had a blood clot while performing an exam to follow up on her condition in relation to the concussion Clinton suffered earlier in December, said her spokesperson. No timetable was released regarding Clinton’s release from the [...]
Firing Attractive Employee Not Harassment
On Friday, justices at the Iowa Supreme Court would not reinstate the sexual harassment suit from Webster County of a dental assistant who had been fired because the wife of her boss was opposed to, amongst other things, the two of them texting one another when not at work. Court documents said that Melissa Nelson [...]
Booker Not Running for Governor of New Jersey
Cory Booker the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey and perhaps the highest profile Democrat in the state, ruled out running for governor in next year’s election and said he was eyeing a possible run in 2014 for the U.S. Senate. Booker announced his decision on Thursday via Twitter. It means the Newark Mayor decided against [...]
