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The House voted yesterday to indefinitely extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

Here he is, holding forth on the iniquities of the estate tax: Now, after someone dies and someone comes in and steals from them, we consider that in most society reprehensible.

Some Christian theologians and scientists are questioning the threat of global warming in advance of next week's U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen.

When Kilgore Police Sgt. Richard Stanley walked into the Kilgore High School auditorium, he was met by thunderous applause.

A philosophical question arose on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday: Should dead people have to pay taxes? Sounds funny, but the estate tax or, as Republicans call it, the "death tax," is one of the big debates between the two parties.

Rep. Barney Frank is an outspoken guy with a knack for word crafta 'in other words, a born tweeter.

Rep. Louie Gohmert , who opposes the Obama administration's decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a civilian court instead of a military tribunal, told CNSNews.com that U.S. troops do not have "forensic wagons to pull up on the battlefield when we've got people in harm's way" to collect evidence as is done for civil court cases.

In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show "America's Morning News" - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - here's what three of Monday's guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and Jed Babbin, who is filling in for John McCaslin: Sen.

GOHMERT GOES THERE.... Among members of Congress, Rep. Louie Gohmert has long stood out as a man a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

On the Anniversary of Kennedy's Death, Extremism Lives On >> Posted By Progressive 5 hours, 20 minutes ago in Political Opinion Tomorrow's 46th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination provides an occasion for Mark Warren to examine "the paranoid strain in the American polity" that has reasserted itself since the election of President Obama, and ...

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your modern Republican party. Gohmert will not be rebuked, shunned, or even chided for his disgusting comments.

By ADAM RUSSELL Staff Writer U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, introduced a bill designed to prevent Khalid Sheik Mohammed and co-conspirators in the Sept.

Rep. Louie Gohmert speaks during a news conference last year. WASHINGTON - A Texas Republican said there's one reason New York would want to host trials for 9/11 suspects: To create jobs by becoming a bigger terror target.

Getty Images A couple of years ago, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada told me something that shocked me, and that I will never forget.

On Tuesday, GOP Congressman Louis Gohmert of Texas suggested that Democrats wanted to see another terror attack on America, saying that the only reason to hold 9/11 trials in the U.S. was if "they're trying to create a new jobs bill by allowing terrorism back in New York." Yesterday, DCCC Chairman Chris Van Vollen fired back , saying that Gohmert's ...

Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other terrorism suspects will be tried in U.S. courts in New York City, which has prompted outrageous reactions from conservative politicians and pundits.

Rep. Louie Gohmert told CNSNews.com that the Obama administration's decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a civilian court instead of a military tribunal is a "bow" from President Obama "literally" and "figuratively" toward other countries for their approval.

A common right-wing objection to federal health care legislation is that it's unconstitutional.

A conservative Web site announced yesterday it has sent millions of "pink slips" to members of Congress, conveying citizens' dissatisfaction with certain legislative activity and the country's current anti-incumbent mood.

Democrats are seizing on comments by a GOP lawmaker who implied that the Obama administration's decision to prosecute the Sept.