Kansas gov. signs measure blocking Islamic law

(FOXNEWS)   Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state’s courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group’s spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely. The new law, taking effect July 1, doesn’t specifically mention Shariah law, which [...]

Senate rejects GOP measure to build oil pipeline

ShareThis Senate rejects GOP measure to build oil pipeline 08 Mar 2012 The Senate narrowly rejected a Republican-sponsored measure Thursday that would have bypassed the Obama administration’s current objections to the Keystone XL pipeline and allowed construction on the controversial project to move forward immediately. Fifty-six senators voted in favor of the amendment — four [...]

Is Diet Soda Harmful? Addictive?

Heart Attack and Stroke: Drinking diet sodas daily may increase the risks for heart attack and stroke and other vascular events by 43 percent, but no such threat exists with regular soft drinks or with less frequent consumption of diet soda. These results come from a study including more than 2,500 adults published online in [...]

Utah Bill aims to ban DUI checkpoints

Supporters of the bill, sponsored by David Butterfield, R-Logan, say that DUI checkpoints aren’t as productive as other methods of DUI enforcement and violate civil rights. “We say that citizens have a right against unreasonable searches,” said Butterfield. “The Utah Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court have both held that they are constitutional [...]

Obama signs two-month extension of payroll tax cut

ShareThis Obama signs two-month extension of payroll tax cut 23 Dev 2011 President Barack Obama signed a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut Friday, ending what had been a heated political stalemate and sealing a hard-fought win for Democrats on an issue — taxes — that has historically favored the GOP. Earlier in the [...]

Senate in party-line vote rejects measure to overturn FCC net-neutrality rules

By Gautham Nagesh, Josiah Ryan and Brendan Sasso | The Hill The Senate rejected a bid to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s controversial net neutrality rules on Thursday in a party-line vote. The measure passed the House in April, but failed in the Senate on a vote of 52 to 46. It needed 51 votes [...]

Colorado voters reject raising taxes to support education

From: TheLATimes.com In what could be a harbinger of the 2012 election, Colorado voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have raised nearly $ 3 billion for education by temporarily increasing state income, sales and use taxes. With 59% of the projected vote counted, Proposition 103 was trailing 65% to 35%, the Associated Press [...]

Social Security to Hand Out First Raises Since ’09

From: FOXNews.com WASHINGTON – Social Security recipients will get a raise in January — their first increase in benefits since 2009. It’s expected to be about 3.5 percent. Some 55 million beneficiaries will find out for sure Wednesday when a government inflation measure that determines the annual cost-of-living adjustment is released. Congress adopted the measure [...]

Senate Republican jobs bill urges tax reform and cuts

By Thomas Ferraro | Reuters Senate Republicans, having rejected President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, offered a sweeping and largely repackaged plan of their own on Thursday. Their “Jobs Through Growth Act” features a fresh call for tax reform and cuts as well as a number of components previously proposed, but stalled in the Democratic-led Senate. [...]

Senate Democrats Propose 5% Surtax on Millionaires

By COREY BOLES, The Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats proposed a 5% surtax on people earning more than $ 1 million a year to pay for the $ 447 billion cost of President Barack Obama’s job-creation bill, in a move designed to shore up their party’s support for the measure. The proposal would replace the [...]