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Rush Limbaugh says Pres. Obama is turning into "the male Kim Kardashian." On his show today, Rush Limbaugh discussed two sweepstakes ads that the Obama campaign is running. One starring Anna Wintour, Editor of Vogue magazine; and the other with actress Sarah Jessica Parker. Each promotes a chance for two lucky winners to have dinner at Sarah Jessica Parker’s home in New York for an Obama fundraiser. “This is such a divorce from reality. So they’re having this big dinner party, for YOU. Two people…you could get chosen to have dinner so that Obama and Michelle and Anna Wintour and...

(CNSNews.com) – Nearly one-quarter of Americans believe that states have the right to secede, according to a recent poll from Rasmussen Reports -- up 10 percentage points in two years. The latest poll is just one of many that shows that Americans have “serious and growing concern about the federal government,” according to Scott Rasmussen, founder and president of Rasmussen Reports. According to the phone survey released Sunday, 24 percent of Americans believe that states should be able to withdraw from the United States to form their own country, if they want. Nearly 60 percent (59) of Americans say they...

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama is holding six separate fundraisers in the Midwest on Friday, June 1 -- the same day the Labor Department reported the May unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent. On this day in 1984 -- when President Ronald Reagan also was running for re-election -- Reagan announced that the May unemployment rate had dropped to 7.4 percent. When President Reagan announced the lower May unemployment rate on June 1, 1984, he was on his way, not to a fundraiser, but to Western Europe, to promote peace and democracy in the Cold War...

(CNSNews.com) - The number of American women who are unemployed was 766,000 individuals greater in May 2012 than in January 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January 2009, there were approximately 5,005,000 unemployed women in the United States, according to BLS. In May 2012, there were 5,771,000. The BLS derives its employment statistics from an overall number it calls the civilian non-institutional population. This includes all Americans 16 or over who are not on active duty in the military and who are not in an institution such...

The April jobs report showed employers added fewer workers than expected with nonfarm payrolls rising by only 115,000. Economists had expected 168,000 jobs and the tepid April increase falls far short of the 250,000 jobs needed each month to maintain population increases. Yes, the unemployment rate ticked down by 0.1% to 8.1%, - but, that number may be a little misleading. The participation rate, defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as the labor force as a percent of population, declined in April by 0.2 to 63.6% to the lowest level since 1981 - in other words, there were...

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee says President's surprise trip to Afghanistan on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden must campaign related, since Obama's spent the last three years gutting the military: “Our troops on the front lines always appreciate a visit from the Commander-in-Chief. Obama’s last visit was in December 2010, and the last time he addressed the nation about Afghanistan was June 2011. "Clearly this trip is campaign related. We’ve seen recently that President Obama has visited college campuses in an attempt to win back the support...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick up children for their routes. “As part of a settlement for alleged excessive diesel idling in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Durham School Services will commit to reduce idling from its school bus fleet of 13,900 buses operating in 30 states,” read an EPA press release on Tuesday. The EPA says an agency inspector two years ago spotted buses of...

On his show last night, Mark Levin called President Obama a liar and said that he sounds like Karl Marx when he speaks about the economy. After playing a clip of Obama touting his newest tax, the “Buffett Rule,” Levin said, “Stop. Stop. He’s such a liar, that I really have to constrain myself…despite what the government is doing, we’re the most successful people on the face of the earth.” Levin was criticizing Obama’s comments made yesterday in Florida when the president said, “What drags our entire economy down is when the benefits of economic growth and productivity go only...

The Media Research Center is calling upon Congress to investigate Comcast/NBC News for the intentional editing of the George Zimmerman audio that was broadcast multiple times and subsequently flamed the fires of racial hatred and animosity: NBC is laughing at the public. Last week we said we would have more to say if their behavior in this matter didn’t change. Given their continued irresponsibility, today we open up a new front. To review: From March 19th to March 27th, NBC used their doctored versions of the Trayvon Martin audio clip to give the impression that Zimmerman was a racist. The...

The Washington Post has reported that NBC will be investigating who at NBC was responsible for dishonestly airing a doctored 9-1-1 conversation between George Zimmerman to make it look like Zimmerman's intent was racially motivated. But, Media Research Center (MRC) Pres. Brent Bozell says this is not enough, so he’s calling on NBC’s parent, Comcast, to conduct its own investigation. In a statement released today, Bozell stresses the seriousness of airing an edited tape that might inflame racial tensions – and likens NBC investigating itself to “Nixon investigating the Watergate tapes.” "This is a massive breach of the public trust....

“Just because one wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum,” Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) declared as he donned a hoodie and sunglasses on the House floor – at which point the session’s chair called the sergeant-at-arms to enforce the House rule on decorum. In a theatrical stunt to comment on the controversy surrounding the shooting of hooded Trayvon Martin, Rep. Rush pulled a hoodie over his head and went on a rant. Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the session’s chair, repeatedly banged his gavel and called for Rush to desist. “The gentleman will suspend,” Harper said. “The member is...

Video in Story... Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan defended the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare today by arguing that "It's just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend" and concluding "It doesn't sound coercive to me." Kagan made her comments at today's Supreme Court hearing while questioning attorney Paul D. Clement who was presenting an oral argument on behalf of 26 states seeking to have the federal health care law declared unconstitutional: Mr. Clement: "Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court. The constitutionality of the act’s massive expansion of Medicaid depends on the answer...

“Just because one wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum,” Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) declared as he donned a hoodie and sunglasses on the House floor – at which point the session’s chair called the sergeant-at-arms to enforce the House rule on decorum. In a theatrical stunt to comment on the controversy surrounding the shooting of hooded Trayvon Martin, Rep. Rush pulled a hoodie over his head and went on a rant. Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the session’s chair, repeatedly banged his gavel and called for Rush to desist. “The gentleman will suspend,” Harper said. “The member is...

Democrats are trying to justify government health care mandates by making the case that, if some people can’t afford something, everyone else should be forced to buy it for them so that it’ll be “free” for everyone. Claim: Birth control’s too expensive for some women, so health insurers should have to cover the full cost for all women At a hearing held by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke made headlines by claiming that birth control is too expensive for students, so health insurers have to cover the full cost for everyone. "Forty percent of the female...

(CNSNews.com) – At a Wednesday hearing, House Homeland Security Chairman Pete King (R.-N.Y.) said that "at a minimum" there are hundreds of "soldiers of Hezbollah" inside the United States. "Now, how many Iranian and Hezbollah terrorists are here already?" said King. "The highly-disciplined soldiers of Hezbollah are trained to lie low for years, or for decades. Those who have gone up against this enemy for our government estimate the number to be at a minimum--at a minimum--in the hundreds." At the same hearing, the former chief of operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration testified that Mexican drug cartels are in...

Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R- Calif.) took a swipe at the Obama administration’s claim of an “all of the above” approach when it comes to it’s energy policy, claiming the administration is avoiding efforts for more drilling. “I know the president believes all of the above, but really he thinks, but nothing from below. That’s wrong”, McCarthy said at the Capitol Tuesday morning. “We have a number of bills sitting in the Senate. We asked Senator Schumer to not sit there and ask Saudi Arabia to produce more but allow America to produce more." McCarthy continued, “America deserves something...

“If the government can just order you to buy something, and fine you if you don’t” – the way the individual mandate of Obamacare requires every American to buy government-approved health insurance and fines them if they don’t comply – “they can order you to do anything,” Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said during an appearance on C-SPAN’s “Newsmaker” on Sunday. Cuccinelli, the first attorney general to file a lawsuit challenging Obamacare, said out of 16 judges that have heard the lawsuit so far, only one has ruled that the fine amounts to a tax. “Of 16 judges, one found...

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama has tried to portray himself as a champion of the average American against a wealthy elite. However, a new Rasmussen poll found that 65 percent of union members say they believe Obama is more liberal than they are. The poll also found that 59 percent of likely voters think Obama is more liberal than they are, an increase of 7 points from last month. When asked if in political terms President Obama is “more conservative”, “more liberal”, or “about the same,” 59 percent of respondents answered Obama is more liberal than they are, while 11...

(CNSNews.com) - A new survey shows that rising gasoline prices will force changes in the driving habits of American adults, but only six percent of them said they plan to buy a hybrid/energy-efficient vehicle to alleviate pain at the pump. The online survey, conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of CouponCabin from March 6-8, found that 3 in 4 adults in this country said they are changing their driving habits: -- 61 percent plan to drive less overall to save money -- 9 percent plan to carpool -- 8 percent plan to use public transportation -- 6 percent plan to...

Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that the size of the U.S. national debt and the rate at which the debt is accumulating will lead the United States to “ruin” -- and no other outcome is mathematically possible. “Whether one believes in a large, very active government or something more limited, mathematically, the amount of debt we already have and the terrifying rate at which it is accumulating will lead to national ruin,” Daniels said. “There’s no other outcome arithmetically possible,” he added. As of February 2012, according to monthly U.S. Treasury statements, our national debt is $15.48 trillion,...