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Soon, the Federal Reserve could be forced for the first time to open its books and expose its machinations to Congress. Senator Rand Paul (shown, R-Ky.) reports that he is “about seven votes short” of the 60 votes he believes would be procedurally sufficient to get a vote in the Senate. In an interview with Kitco News just moments after he left the stage at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas, Paul explained that while the House of Representatives has passed numerous measures aimed at auditing the Federal Reserve, it is “taking forever in the Senate.” He promises that he will...

It's a year away from the election and there is already evidence the Democrats are losing faith - and some of their faithful. A new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that, by one measure, religious conviction has fallen among Democrats but is increasing among Republicans. The partisan gap is the largest since Pew started doing the survey 16 years ago, said Andrew Kohut, executive director of the center.