Jul 24, 2012 – WASHINGTON (BP) -- There's good news and bad news for Planned Parenthood. … The good news is the Obama administration continues to go out of its way to funnel money to the country's No. 1 abortion provider. … The bad news is Planned Parenthood can't stop scandals and negative reports from reaching at least some of the American public.…

Jul 24, 2012 – Seven days ago, the Democratic National Committee released a web video that needled Mitt Romney over his alleged "secrecy."  … In light of this unseemly dig -- not to mention Barack Obama's assertions during the 2008 campaign that attacks on political spouses … Is the Democratic National Committee demonstrating its ineptitude or its cynicism here? …

Jul 24, 2012 – Presidential nominee Mitt Romney would name former Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as his Vice-Presidential running mate, quiet news … The historic nature of an African-American candidate heading one national ticket, and a woman holding the Vice-Presidential slot on … From 2008 forward, a national ticket would be deemed illegitimate if a woman or a minority did not occupy one of the two slots, as…

Jul 24, 2012 – What he was really asking me was to address it in a political context. … The problem is that I don't believe there was any political context to the shooting; not everything is political.         … While there is a pattern in the left's repeated imputation of political motives to and shameless political exploitation of many large-scale…

Jul 23, 2012 – As the International AIDS conference meets in Washington, D.C., the news on HIV/AIDS is not all encouraging. … Heads of state who pulled together national plans. Families who routinely took in the children of the dead. … Bending the curve of new infections downward will require sustained political will and serious resources.…

Jul 23, 2012 – EDITOR'S NOTE: BP Ledger carries items for reader information each week from various Southern Baptist-related entities, and news releases … According to a national survey, more than one-third of Americans have considered adoption, but less than 2 percent have actually adopted … (Source: Harris Interactive and Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, National Foster Care Adoption Attitudes Survey).…

Jul 23, 2012 – Some still think that they have the luxury of sitting out the national debate over homosexuality. … Churches are not to be political bodies or political action committees. … Contribute to organizations that are contending in the political realm for biblical marriage.…

Jul 23, 2012 – Schlichter frequently discusses legal, military and political issues on Fox News, NRAnews,com’s Cam and Company, Dennis Miller Show … Tell me about the moment you decided to enter the political arena. … I did freelance writing in the 90’s, and then some stand-up, but nothing really political.…

Jul 23, 2012 – John Lott wrote for Fox News that we know a lot about the Treaty just by virtue of the nations negotiating its details. … Given their political failures, the best way for anti-gun activists to implement these sneaky schemes is through an ATT that contains … “The U.N.’s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and…

Jul 23, 2012 – (Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, "Tickets Available Wednesday For Obama Visit To Fort Myers On Friday," Naples Daily News, 7/17/12) Obama … as it showered billions in taxpayer-backed stimulus money on alternative energy firms, iWatch News and ABC News have learned." … That's the good news. But the company's SEC filing in April for a $250 million IPO tells a more, er, interesting story.…

Jul 22, 2012 – Meanwhile, the National Organization for Marriage is promoting "Eat at Chick-Fil-A Day" for Wednesday of this week. … Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena. … Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston What's more, these types of boycotts are incredibly silly.…

Jul 22, 2012 – These shootings are not distant news items for me. … But I love taking frequent hikes into Pike National Forest, which borders the west side of my home.  … The right / left political scale positioning for this issue is not easily recognizable. …

Jul 20, 2012 – Regular readers may recall my tangle on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" back in June, which featured a spirited 3-on-1 political throwdown … Round two came last night, as I joined guest host Michael Eric Dyson, "political comedian" John Fugelsang, and in-house political analyst … Barack Obama's description of President Bush as "unpatriotic" in 2008 (discussing Bush's comparatively modest accumulation of national…

Jul 20, 2012 – Johnson's last-minute ploy to help his vice president's political fortunes had little effect on the election; Nixon won in a landslide … On Oct. 26, 1972, 12 days before the Nixon-McGovern presidential election, national security adviser Henry Kissinger, Nixon's chief … negotiator with the North Vietnamese, announced that peace was "at hand" during a White House news conference.…

Jul 20, 2012 – that has the constitutional authority to reform fiscal policy to get the economy moving is irretrievably locked into a state of political … If that's not bad enough, Obama has thrown up further political obstacles to stronger growth -- namely, his threat to veto any tax-cut … While the national news media are focused on Romney's tax returns and his record at the Bain Capital investment firm he founded, the…

Jul 19, 2012 – That charge mainly exposed Dan Rather as the fake, and would soon enough lead to his becoming an ex-anchorman of a national news show … To quote that great political commentator Gertrude Stein, there's no there there. Nor is FactCheck alone. … Devin Dwyer of ABC News looked at this now rapidly aging smear and summed it up this way: "Team Obama does not provide any specific…

Jul 19, 2012 – Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, I expected there would soon be consensus across ideological, national, and other lines … that terrorism is wrong — that no political goal or grievance justifies intentionally murdering innocent men, women, and children. … Recall Reuters’ global head of news, Stephen Jukes, just after 9/11, saying that in the view of his news organization, “one man’s terrorist…

Aug 7, 2012 – Even some countries that are making progress on expanding political freedom are frozen in place when it comes to religious freedom. … He said in a blog post at National Review Online: -- Suzan Johnson Cook, the ambassador at large for international religious freedom … Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress ) and in your email (…

Aug 7, 2012 – The Congress is gone - which is good news for the Republic. … He headed for Crawford, Texas which meant the national press corps got to hang out in Waco for weeks at a time. … For the third straight month the national Republican fund raising operation - the Republican National Committee the Romney campaign…

Aug 7, 2012 – None of that is good news for Barack Obama. … Millions of ordinary folk were outraged by political correctness run amok. … It was now about denial of a business license based on the political views of the business owners.…

Aug 6, 2012 – Two examples figured prominently -- or should have -- in last week's news. … Cruz, who is the odds-on favorite in November, has the credentials and policy positions to be a figure of national importance for many … But many news outlets ignored Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day Wednesday.…

Aug 6, 2012 – She also stunned the political world with her meteoric rise to success. … What would you like tomorrow's news headline to say? “U.S. … Tell me about the moment you decided to enter the political arena.…

Aug 3, 2012 – part of a series of first-persons Baptist Press will publish in anticipation of the 40/40 Prayer Vigil for Spiritual Revival and National … But then I realize that all the shortcomings of our leaders and our political process are exactly why Christians need to be engaged … Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress ) and in your email (…

Aug 3, 2012 – Romney in any way, and we regret it if it did,” DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse told ABC News. … It’s one thing to question a political family’s use and abuse of taxpayer dollars. … Or to scrutinize a political family member’s own public record and rhetoric on the campaign trail.…

Aug 3, 2012 – run-on sentence of blaming his predecessor, only occasionally punctuated with complaints about Europe, ATMs, the GOP Congress, Fox News … The political reality is that many people believe it. … I've made this argument in front of numerous conservative audiences (and recently in the pages of National Review) with little to no…