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1Kansas Government

Catholic leaders speak out against new contraception regulations

Lawmakers and politicians scrambled Monday to respond to a growing furor over the Obama administration's decision to require no-cost contraceptive insurance coverage - even in policies offered by religious employers.

2US House of Representatives

Barney Frank to tie the knot in July

It's going to be a summer wedding in Massachusetts for Rep. Barney Frank and his partner, Jim Ready, who announced their engagement last month.

3Republican

Boehner to Bam on birth control mandate:A Reverse course or Congress willA

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Wednesday that Congress will act if President Obama does not reverse a controversial birth control The Ohio Republican gave a rare, heated floor speech on Wednesday and demanded the White House reverse its new rule mandating faith-based employers provide contraception coverage.

4Atheism

The Audacity of Obama's Secularism

The secularists of the French Revolution regarded the Roman Catholic Church as the last obstacle to atheism's final triumph.

5South Carolina

The race card is a joker

Rachel Maddow claimed that Newt Gingrich's attack on Barack Obama as "entertainer-in-chief" was "caricaturing him in a way that calls out to minstrelsy." It's racial code, we're told, when Newt Gingrich accuses Barack Obama of being America's "food stamp President." It's an assault on low-income Americans, some pundits insist, when Mitt Romney says ... (more)

6US Politics

Rubio pushes back at contraception rules under health care law

Sitting in his pew at St. Louis Catholic Church in Miami one recent Sunday, Sen.

7Malaysia

KFC Malaysia's (I-City) Kitchen Staff attacks Customer

KFC Malaysia' s kitchen staff has gone violent in which the customer was attacked due to miscommunication and strangest thing possible when the customer was in displeasure of waiting for almost an hour for the fried chicken.

8Tax

Should the Richest 10% Pay Two-Thirds of the Taxes?

Topix Staff Story Obama mentions "fairness" so often in his speeches that the word is featured in State of the Union drinking games. But looking past the rhetoric, how fair is tax policy under Obama? asks the Wall Street Journal 's Stephen Moore: Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes, and the richest 10% pay two-thirds of the tax? Moore's questions all point to the idea that wealthy Americans suffer under an unfairly huge tax burden. And some of his questions skate lightly over inconvenient facts that undermine this narrative of overtaxed rich folk. For instance, he asks emotively, Is it fair that Americans who build a family business, hire workers, reinvest and save their money...must then pay an additional estate tax of 35%...when they die, rather than passing that money onto their loved ones? The question implies that the estate tax affects everyone, but actually, it only affects estates of over $5,000,000 dollars. Do you agree - Are taxes on the wealthy unfair? And is Obama to blame, like Moore suggests?

9Utica, NY

Mt Markham Elementary Principal charged, accused of using excessive force with student

The principal of an elementary school in Herkimer County has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after authorities say he used excessive force to restrain a child at the school.

10Columbus, OH

Ohio Senate Considers Limiting Smoking In Cars

The measure's sponsor says the idea is to safeguard youngsters from secondhand smoke.