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 Article posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 Daniel Higgins doesn't look like a Middle Eastern student, but officials say he routinely portrayed himself as one for almost a decade, getting paid up to $1,500 per student to attend their classes and take exams so they could keep t...
Article posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 EL CAJON, California -- A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway, the CHP said. Priu...
Article posted on Monday, March 08, 2010Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Article posted on Monday, March 08, 2010President Obama, making his final push for health care reform, pitched his proposal Monday to a crowd in Pennsylvania with a deficit-reduction figure that the White House later admitted missed the mark. "Our cost-cutting measures mirr...
Article posted on Monday, March 08, 2010 SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's army said Monday it is ready to "blow up" South Korea and the U.S., hours after the allies kicked off annual military drills that Pyongyang has slammed as a rehearsal for attack. Article posted on Monday, March 08, 2010Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election. State Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced felony charges ag...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010Two key education bills filed recently in the Florida Senate would lead to dramatic changes in teacher-pay plans and high school graduation requirements, if adopted. The first would force Florida school districts to develop merit-pay plans...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist spent his final State of the State address Tuesday in campaign mode, defending political pragmatism over ideology and presenting himself as a problem-solver in implicit contrast to his U.S. Senate primary opponent, Ma...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010After weeks of angst over lavish spending and secret deals, Florida Republicans turned to a GOP stalwart Saturday to help lift the cloud of financial scandal hanging over the party. State Sen. John Thrasher, a 66-year-old former House spea...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.), sponsor of the successful amendment to the House version of the health care bill that prohibits federal funds from going to any health care plan that covers abortions, rejected the assertion made Tuesday b...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010(CNSNews.com) – Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told physicians and others at the American Medical Association conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday that President Barack Obama will not start from scratch on health care leg...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010Washington (CNSNews.com) – Global warming has not met scientific criteria, and scientists need to find a theory that matches the facts, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. “Science is verifiable, science is somethi...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010CNSNews.com) – After a conservative group posted a video on Tuesday calling for the Department of Justice to release the names of department lawyers who previously worked in the private sector representing or advocating on behalf of terrorist detaine...
Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010CNSNews.com) – Accusations about links between the Venezuelan government and terrorists in Colombia and Spain add weight to calls to designate Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, a Latin American specialist said Tuesday. Heritage F...
 Article posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010Editor's note: A stopgap spending bill -- held up on principle by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky -- passed the Senate Tuesday night, after Bunning was allowed to offer an amendment that would pay for the bill with Democrat proposals. Bu...
 Article posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010Federal Judge Roger T. Benitez , has just sent down a ruling AGAINST the Poway Unified School District in San Diego. Judge Benitez ruled that the School District violated Math Teacher Bradley Johnson's constitutional right to free speech when i...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that she is running the most ethical and honest Congress in history. At the same time, however, she indicated she will not ask House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D.-N...
 Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that the Senate health care bill does not allow tax-funding of abortion, and added that she had spoken with “Catholic bishops” about the issue. However, the U.S. Conference of C...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday he would have to “check on it” before he could deny Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D.-Pa.) claim that the administration had offered him a high-ranking job in the administration in exchange for ...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Air Force admits that the chaplain's office at Andrews Air Force Base retracted an invitation to Family Research Council President Tony Perkins--a former Marine officer--to speak at a prayer luncheon held at the base on T...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Sunday, February 28, 2010 With less than two weeks before he must enter the race for governor, state Attorney General Jerry Brown told college-age Democrats on Saturday to stay tuned for news about his presumed bid. B...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Sunday, February 28, 2010 New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg says he will return to work in Washington this week after being hospitalized with curable lymphoma of the stomach. The 86-year-old Democrat was discharged fro...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Sunday, February 28, 2010 Uproar over the evolution curriculum. Divides over religious influences in American history. A board member who called public schools a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion." Even t...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Monday, March 01, 2010 As New York Gov. David Paterson tried to reassert his authority to govern for the remainder of his term, an investigation of his administration stormed ahead, making even the governor's long-term frien...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Monday, March 01, 2010 BARTOW, Fla. (AP) — An appeals court has upheld a decision on behalf of the family of a cancer patient who was given a wrong prescription at a Walgreens pharmacy, had a stroke and died several years later.W...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Monday, March 01, 2010 Faced with a primary challenge from Arkansas' lieutenant governor, Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln found herself in the precarious position Monday of fending off angry liberal activists on the left as ...
Article posted on Monday, March 01, 2010By AP News Monday, March 01, 2010 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden told AFL-CIO leaders that he understands the resentment of millions of unemployed Americans who begrudge the government bailouts of the banking and auto industr...
Article posted on Monday, February 22, 2010NEWS FROM CPAC Edited by David Dorr This is a summary of some of the speakers at CPAC. Rep. Pence: Stop Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Planned Parenthood (CNSNews.com) – In a speech on Friday at the Conservative Po...
Article posted on Monday, February 22, 2010Washington (AP) - Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday. The government is just starting to confront this r...
Article posted on Monday, February 22, 2010(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama unveiled his plan for health care reform on whitehouse.gov on Monday, but pro-life legislators and advocates said the “new” proposal mostly mirrors the Senate bill and, in particular, would allow for tax dollars...
Article posted on Monday, February 22, 2010Washington (AP) - Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium incr...
Article posted on Monday, February 22, 2010(CNSNews.com) - Until mid-morning on Monday, President Obama's health insurance plan -- featured prominently on the White House Web site -- included calls for both a government-run health insurance option as well as a requirement that large empl...
Article posted on Monday, February 22, 2010CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s envoy to the Islamic bloc acknowledged Friday that he was accurately quoted in 2004 as calling the treatment of activist Sami al-Arian, then facing trial for supporting a Palestinian terrorist group, an example of “po...
Article posted on Monday, February 15, 2010According to the several sources, Indiana's Senator Evan Bayh (D) has decided not to run for Re-Election. CNN's perspective is that it is the Liberal wing of the party that has caused Bayh and others to reconsider their tenure in the Sen...
Article posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010(CNSNews.com) -- A new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) says comprehensive sex education should be provided to children as young as 10 years old but abstinence-based sex education as promoted by religious groups, suc...
Article posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010Vice President Joe Biden made his latest eyebrow-furrowing prediction Wednesday night, declaring confidently that another Sept. 11-size terror attack is "unlikely" in the U.S., despite signs that Al Qaeda and and other terrorist groups are ...
Article posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010Washington (AP) – The Obama administration on Wednesday slapped new sanctions on several affiliates of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps amid stepped-up efforts to get U.N. penalties against Tehran because of its nuclear and missile programs. Article posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010CNSNews.com) – At a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign to end childhood obesity in the United States, an epidemic she said is costly and a threat to national security. Article posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010CNSNews.com) – The family of Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) had some fun at former Vice President and global warming spokesman Al Gore’s expense over the weekend after record snowfall blanketed the nation’s capital. The family spent Saturday ...
Article posted on Thursday, February 11, 2010(AP) - The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in January increased 15 percent from the same month last year, and a surge in cash-strapped homeowners who've fallen behind on mortgages could be on the way. More than 315,000 h...
Article posted on Monday, February 08, 2010NEWS HEADLINES FOR FEBRUARY 8th, 2010 David Dorr, Editor Palin Urges Obama to Take a 'Do-Over' on Emanuel, Holder By Judson Berger - FOXNews.com Sarah Palin said President Obama needs to take a "do-over...
Article posted on Monday, February 08, 2010The Department of Defense will begin making the morning-after pill Plan B available at all of its hospitals and health clinics around the world, officials announced Thursday. The decision came after a recommendation by the Pentagon's...
Article posted on Monday, February 08, 2010In a case that could resonate in Washington, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the state’s five-year-old medical malpractice law because it limited compensation to injured patients for pain, suffering and other non-economic harms. Article posted on Monday, February 08, 2010A prominent Canadian politician’s decision to undergo heart surgery in the U.S. has touched off a debate about national health care in his own country. At the center of controversy is Danny Williams, premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. W...
 Article posted on Friday, February 05, 2010(CNSNews.com) – Three House Democrats are now pushing legislation that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon emissions—a decision the agency announced in December -- without express permission from the Congress.<...
Article posted on Friday, February 05, 2010Venezuela’s socialist worker militias have grown to nearly 150,000 members since their formation in 2009. Organized by President Hugo Chavez in May 2009, the “workers’ militias” are intended to allow Chavez’s political party to assert control over ke...
Article posted on Friday, February 05, 2010(CNSNews.com) – Filmmaker Michael Moore has been approved to receive a refundable tax credit of up to $1 million from the State of Michigan Film Office for his 2009 documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” and a Republican state senator in Michigan w...
Article posted on Friday, February 05, 2010Washington (CNSNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he did not “have the timeline” and therefore did not know at Thurday's press briefing whether President Barack Obama knew in advance on Christmas Day that Miranda rights we...
Article posted on Friday, February 05, 2010(CNSNews.com) – In a 13-10 vote along party lines, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved the nomination Thursday of Craig Becker to join the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), paving the way for a full Senate vote on the co...
Article posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010The United Nations' expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain tops on a student's dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine. The revelation will cause fresh embarr...
Article posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010According to several new polls, Rubio now leads Crist in the polls for the first time. Reports are that Crist is readying some very negative attack ads against Rubio.
Article posted on Monday, December 07, 2009Harry Reid and Senate Democrats will stop at nothing to pass their government takeover of American health care. Imagine this: to pay for their ‘health care reform package,’ Senate Democrats have now voted to cut $450 billion in Medicare ...
Article posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009Progressive” is becoming more of a dirty word, but all political labels – except “being like Ronald Reagan” - are falling into disfavor with many U.S. voters, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. “Liberal” is st...
Article posted on Friday, August 07, 2009ORLANDO, Fla. -- Sources tell Local 6 that Gov. Charlie Crist will likely choose FSU Board of Trustees Chairman Jim Smith to fill the Senate seat that will be vacated by Mel Martinez, R-Fla. Smith is a former state attorney general ...
Article posted on Friday, July 31, 2009WASHINGTON - After more than two years, the Department of Justice this week dropped an ethics investigation into former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney of Oviedo, who was suspected of wrongdoing after taking a golf trip to Scotland with corrupt ex-lobbyist Jack...
Article posted on Saturday, July 25, 2009Reagan Club Headlines Week ending July 25, 2009 SPECIAL EDITION: THE PRESIDENT AND THE CRY OF RACISM, Plus Obama Care WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that police acted "stupidly" in the arrest o...
Article posted on Friday, May 09, 2008CASSELBERRY - The city's 2007 Annual Report to residents is available on its Web site. The report features photos, information and facts and figures that detail events in Casselberry. The city will also use the 2007 Annual ...
Article posted on Friday, May 09, 2008From orlandosentinel.com Lake Mary City Commission-RESULTS OF LAST WEEK'S MEETING When: May 1. The issues: *Ordinance to rezone property at Wilbur Avenue and First Street from commercial to downtown ce...
Article posted on Friday, May 09, 2008From orlandosentinel.com OVIEDO - The City Council has selected five finalists for the job of city manager. Former Casselberry city manager Frank Clifton made the cut. So did George Clements, city manager of Lebanon, ...
Article posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Rene Stutzman | Sentinel Staff Writer 5:02 PM EDT, April 30, 2008 The state agency that disciplines judges today filed more charges against Seminole County Judge Ralph Eriksson. He now faces four instead of two count...
Article posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008From orlandosentinel.com posted by Aaron Deslatte on Apr 30, 2008 6:46:16 PM Senate leaders announced late Wednesday they were stripping a transportation bill of the legal protections CSX Corp. says it needs to pave the way for Centra...
 Article posted on Saturday, April 05, 2008From orlandosentinel.com SEMINOLE COUNTY - -Time got away from congressional hopeful Faye Armitage on Monday morning as she rushed to turn in her petition in Seminole County. Armitage is running for the District 7 congressional seat held b...
Article posted on Saturday, April 05, 2008From orlandosentinel.com SEMINOLE COUNTY - The Seminole County elections office got high marks from voters during the Florida presidential preference primary. The office got more than 3,000 comment cards from voters who went to ...
Article posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, has accepted an invitation to speak at an exclusive event hosted by the Ronald Reagan Republican Assembly of Central Florida and the RRRA-Seminole County Chapter! Chris Sim...
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