Poll: 69 percent oppose shutdown over Planned Parenthood  —  <p>Nearly seven in 10 Americans — 69 percent — oppose shutting down the government over funding for Planned Parenthood, according to the results of a new national <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/ images/polling/us/us09282015_um96cvr.pd f" …

Why The Most Urgent Civil Rights Cause Of Our Time Is The Supreme Court Itself  —  The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time.  It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change.

Govt. workers have right to refuse gay marriage licenses: pope  —  Pope Francis said on Monday government officials have a “human right” to refuse to discharge a duty, such as issuing marriage licenses to homosexuals, if they feel it violates their conscience.

Trump to Release Plan Calling for Higher Taxes on the Wealthy  —  The candidate would also rein in companies that pay less tax by moving headquarters overseas  —  Donald Trump is set to release a tax plan Monday that calls for major reductions in levies on middle-income and poor payers …

Trump gets down to business on 60 Minutes  —  Scott Pelley interviews Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who lays out key policy details and reveals a major part of his tax proposal  —  The following script is from “Trump” which aired on September 27, 2015.  Scott Pelley is the correspondent.

CNN debate criteria would allow Joe Biden to participate  —  (CNN)Vice President Joe Biden will be invited to participate in the first Democratic presidential primary debate if he declares his intention to seek his party's nomination as late as the day of the debate, eligibility criteria released Monday by CNN shows.

Yes, Hillary Clinton broke the law  —  Since there has been much evasion and obfuscation about Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mail use, it seems appropriate to step back and simply review what we know in light of the law.  It's also instructive to compare Clinton's situation to arguably …

Russia Surprises U.S. With Accord on Battling ISIS  —  UNITED NATIONS — For the second time this month, Russia moved to expand its political and military influence in the Syria conflict and left the United States scrambling, this time by reaching an understanding, announced on Sunday …

Senator Warren's Remarks at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate  —  BOSTON, MA - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered remarks today at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, as part of the Institute's “Getting to the Point” speaker series.

‘Murdered’ German woman Petra Pazsitka reappears after vanishing 31 years ago  —  A German woman who vanished 31 years ago and had been registered as dead after a man confessed to her murder, has been found alive and well and living in Düsseldorf.  In 1984, Petra Pazsitka, then 24 …

Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065  —  Views of Immigration's Impact on U.S. Society Mixed  —  Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States …

Almost All US Temperature Data Used In Global Warming Models Is Estimated or Altered  —  We have written many times about the fact that the temperature data used in the alarmists' global warming models are not original data as measured by thermometers.  Rather, they are “adjusted” numbers …

Obama swipes at Putin, Cheney and Trump in U.N. address  —  <p>UNITED NATIONS - President Barack Obama took repeated swipes at Vladimir Putin, Dick Cheney and even Donald Trump, without mentioning them by name, in an address to the United Nations on Monday, holding them up as examples …

The Blackmail Caucus, a.k.a. the Republican Party  —  John Boehner was a terrible, very bad, no good speaker of the House.  Under his leadership, Republicans pursued an unprecedented strategy of scorched-earth obstructionism, which did immense damage to the economy and undermined America's credibility around the world.