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The President told his supporters earlier this week at a fundraiser that Planned Parenthood should keep getting funding so that his daughters could “control their own health care choices.” Obama enthusiastically promoting Planned Parenthood is nothing new. But the radically pro-abortion President shamelessly including his 11 and 14 year old daughters in his Planned Parenthood pitch is a new low.   “Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood. I think that is a bad idea,” Obama said. “I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices. We’re not going backwards, we’re...

The Hunger Games" is a rarity -- a Hollywood blockbuster that inspires political discourse. Is it a liberal movie? Is it a conservative flick? Is it both? It all depends on who you ask. An article from the Hollywood Reporter explains how folks can see their own beliefs reflected in the story. For example, people who back the Occupy movement note that the movie and the book it is based upon feature a world divided into rich and poor. The rich are viewed as layabouts and the poor are hard-working and put upon. Actor Penn Badgley, best known for his...

A Canadian teen accused of murdering her family told a hushed courtroom she stabbed her eight-year-old brother, but her much older boyfriend slit the child's throat, said reports Wednesday. The girl, who cannot be identified under Canadian law, told a jury in little more than a whisper that her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, had killed her parents and then ordered her to stab the little boy, said the daily Globe and Mail. "He yells at me, 'Stab him, just stab him! Slit his throat!"' she testified. "I said, 'I can't, I can't,' and he said, 'You have to. I did...

Cops: Boy, 7, Beat Baby Sister to Death Thursday, June 02, 2005 TAMPA, Fla. — A 7-year-old boy beat his baby half-sister to death with his fists, feet and a two-by-four because he was jealous of the attention the girl was receiving and because she would not stop crying, police said Wednesday.

10-year-old boy was charged yesterday with enticing a 3-year-old boy to leave a library in Woodbridge, N.J., and then beating and sexually assaulting him before leaving him to die in a storm drain. It was a crime without obvious motive, it involved two young boys who were strangers and it all unspooled in the space of not more than about half an hour, the authorities said.

A 13-year-old North Fairmount boy was being questioned by Cincinnati police in connection with the Thursday night shooting death of one teen and the wounding of two others, one of whom was in critical condition. The boy being questioned was a victim of bullying, two of his relatives claimed. The shooting occurred about 6:35 p.m. on the sidewalk in front of MJ's Variety store at Beekman and Dempsey streets in North Fairmount, said Cincinnati Police Capt. Kathleen Howard. A 14-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene, and two other male juveniles were transported to separate hospitals for treatment of...