Romney reveals limit on tax deductions
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney floated a $17,000 cap on tax deductions, a proposal that could reconcile his pledge to lower tax rates with his promise to make the plan deficit-neutral.
View ArticleOld pals
In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama adopted a phony accent and praised Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who was sitting in the audience, for his service...
View ArticleFREMONT: Things Obama won't say
Barack Obama doesn’t like the word “terror” and its derivatives. Most observers attribute the Obama administration’s post-Benghazi reticence to cynical political calculation. This is too simple. Mr....
View ArticlePULLMANN: Kids stage brown-bag revival over lunch laws
Students nationwide are boycotting new federal school lunch rules, reverting to brown-bagging it in a mini-revival of individual freedom among the milk-drinking crowd.
View ArticleMILLER: Media’s love affair with Obama
It’s hard to compete with someone who gets Nobel Prizes and Grammy Awards just for showing up at the office. In running against someone as highly praised as Barack Obama, Mitt Romney has his work cut...
View ArticleAhmadinejad: Nuclear program will go on
Iran will not back down on its nuclear program despite economic problems caused by Western sanctions, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
View ArticlePro-Assad Hezbollah fighters slain in Syria
A Hezbollah commander and several other fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant group have been killed in Syria, a senior Lebanese security official and Syrian activists said Tuesday.
View ArticleMurphy goes after West's war service
Democrat Patrick Murphy returned Rep. Allen West’s fire with a new ad Tuesday highlighting the Florida Republican’s military record.
View ArticleRushdie: Freedom of expression is core value
Freedom of expression is a fundamental value, and in no way comparable to physical violence against others, British-Indian author Salman Rushdie said at his latest book launch on Tuesday.
View ArticleFeds failing to screen immigrants for neediness
Department of State data analyzed by the staff of Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, reveals a shockingly low percentage of applications denied visas...
View ArticleRomney jumps on Biden 'middle-class' gaffe
Mitt Romney's campaign seized on what Republicans called a "stunning admission" made Tuesday by Vice President Joe Biden when he said the middle class "has been buried" the last four years, putting...
View ArticleAffleck has 'complicated feelings' about Obama
Ben Affleck says he had high hopes for then-candidate Barack Obama in 2008 but his record in the Oval Office hasn't been all the Hollywood star had hoped.
View ArticleMichelle says watching debates makes her nervous
Watching her husband during a presidential debate makes Michelle Obama feels like an anxious mom, the first lady confided in an exclusive interview with CNN.
View ArticlePoll: Doctors favor Romney by wide margin
A press release from the 60 Plus Association highlights the results of a poll showing doctors favor Mitt Romney for president by a 19-point margin: "A new survey sponsored by Jackson Healthcare shows...
View ArticleU.S. foreign aid increases 80% under Obama
From fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2011, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal government increased spending on foreign aid by 80 percent and, in fiscal 2011, spent 76 percent more on foreign aid than...
View Article'Gang of 8' senators to meet about fiscal cliff
The senators in the Gang of Six — plus two newbies — will have a secret retreat next week hosted by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) to start cobbling together a plan to avoid the looming fiscal cliff.
View ArticleSpain's tax revenue falls as businesses flee
Spain's corporate tax take has tumbled by almost two thirds from pre-crisis levels as small businesses fail and a growing number of big corporations seek profits abroad to compensate for the prolonged...
View ArticleFrance drops Strauss-Kahn gang-rape charge
French prosecutors say they are dropping an investigation into former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn over a "gang rape" alleged to have taken place in Washington.
View ArticleMideast mess: Obama making matters worse
As riots throughout the Middle East call into question both the utility of President Obama’s attempts to reach out to the Arab world and his administration’s claims to have vanquished Al Qaeda, the...
View ArticleSenate panel: Homeland program threatens liberty
A federal domestic security effort to help state and local law enforcement catch terrorists by setting up more than 70 information-sharing centers around the country has threatened civil liberties...
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