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News FeedPOLITICO.com - May 23, 2013
Lois Lerner might win the legal battle but she's prolonging the political war.
Instead of simply taking the scorn of lawmakers for a day, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination, and then moving on, she chose defiance.
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- May 23, 2013
e massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated....[view article]
Wall Street Journal - May 23, 2013
Dan Pfeiffer, senior adviser to the president for strategy and communications, appeared on five news programs Sunday to discuss the controversies buffeting the administration. The spectacle revealed the mind-set of a White House under siege....[view article]
The Washington Post - May 23, 2013
Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolphsaid: “Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case.” The issue he raised but could not resolve — that is up to the Supreme Court — illuminates the Obama administration’s George Wallace-like lawlessness....[view article]
CBSNews.com - May 23, 2013
House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review....[view article]
LA Times - May 23, 2013
Some prominent health insurers, including industry giant UnitedHealth Group Inc., are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market, possibly limiting the number of choices for millions of consumers....[view article]
Fox News - May 23, 2013
Majorities of American voters say their family will be worse off under the Affordable Care Act, and think it would be better to go back to the pre-ObamaCare health care system....[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 23, 2013
Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the members of the House and Senate Republican Conferences, the signatories on the letter urge Republicans to promptly draft legislation and hold the hearings necessary to pass a bill that will authorize the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the targets of IRS political discrimination, and that will specifically authorize those targeted organizations and individuals to seek monetary damages for injuries they suffered as a result of IRS political targeting and...[view article]
The New York Times - May 23, 2013
President Obama plans to open a new phase in the nation's long struggle with terrorism on Thursday by restricting the use of unmanned drone strikes that have been at the heart of his national security strategy and shifting control of them away from the C.I.A. to the military....[view article]
The Hill - May 23, 2013
"We knew five years ago that closing Guantanamo was a bad idea and would not work," Chambliss said. "Yet, today’s speech sends the message to Guantanamo detainees that if they harass the dedicated military personnel there enough, we will give in and send them home, even to Yemen."...[view article]
Fox News - May 22, 2013
Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups, is expected to invoke the Fifth Amendment Wednesday when she appears before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox News has learned....[view article]
The Washington Post - May 22, 2013
For the second straight day and the third time in one week, IRS officials will testify Wednesday in front of Congress about the agency's improper targeting of conservative groups....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - May 22, 2013
A far-reaching bill to remake the nation's immigration system is headed to the full Senate, where tough battles are brewing on gay marriage, border security and other contentious issues, with the outcome impossible to predict....[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - May 22, 2013
Sitting on the desk of a Boy Scouts of America official is a petition with 19,000 signatures urging the historic organization to adhere to traditional American values....[view article]
- May 22, 2013
The rule change was followed by engineers, both from FDOT and local municipalities, collaborating to shorten the length of yellow lights at key intersections, specifically those with red light cameras (RLCs)....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - May 21, 2013
The scene he saw was harrowing, but it's the sounds at Plaza Towers Elementary that Stuart Earnest Jr. says will haunt him forever.
"All you could hear were screams," Earnest said. "The people screaming for help. And the people trying to help were also screaming."
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CHRON.com - May 21, 2013
The state's regional Education Service Centers no will longer issue lesson plans - and will forbid their use after Aug. 31 - for a popular online curriculum system that became a lightning rod for conservatives who criticized it as anti-American, legislators announced Monday....[view article]
Weekly Standard - May 21, 2013
The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, "Richard Milhous Obama," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to acknowledge. The estimable Victor Davis Hansen has weighed in, defending against liberal dissents the proposition that "Nixon Is a Fair Comparison" with Obama....[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 21, 2013
There's only one [abortuary] in the state of Kansas, and Oak Park family doctor Cheryl Chastine owns it. The clinic, South Wind Women's Center, recently opened in the same office in Wichita where notorious abortionist George Tiller operated. Like the recently convicted Kermit Gosnell, Tiller performed late term abortions on babies that were unquestionably old enough to survive outside the womb....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 21, 2013
Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation....[view article]
Examiner.com - May 20, 2013
A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents....[view article]
Haaretz.com - May 20, 2013
The Syrian army is deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles aiming at Israel in the aftermath of the alleged Israeli strikes, The Sunday Times reports....[view article]
Reuters - May 20, 2013
The United Nations said on May 15 the death toll in Syria from the two-year-old civil war is at least 80,000, an increase of about 10,000 from February 2013....[view article]
Reuters - May 20, 2013
Obama said on Thursday he reserved the right to resort to both diplomatic and military options to pressure Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but insisted that U.S. action alone would not be enough to resolve the Syrian crisis....[view article]
Fox News - May 16, 2013
The sun has unleashed four potent solar flares over the past few days, according to NASA....[view article]
Real Clear Politics - May 16, 2013
The quest to determine why data caps really exist may be starting to wind down. ISPs have admitted, either explicitly or implicitly, that monthly data caps have nothing to do with network congestion....[view article]
Reuters - May 16, 2013
Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital, the World Health Organization said....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 16, 2013
A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid....[view article]
CBSNews.com - May 16, 2013
Many ladies love their handbags and will spend a lot of money for the latest and greatest, but a new study says what is inside those bags may be covered in germs worse than what you'll find in the bathroom....[view article]
Susan B Anthony List - May 16, 2013
Just days after a Philadelphia jury found abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of the murder of three newborn children and the negligent death of a patient, evidence of similar atrocities has surfaced in Houston, Texas....[view article]
Breitbart - May 16, 2013
The IRS scandal of targeting tea party or conservative organizations grew deeper Wednesday with the revelation that the agency denied tax-exempt status to a pro-life organization because of its hypothetical opposition to Planned Parenthood....[view article]
Family Security Matters - May 15, 2013
You would have thought that the Obama administration would have learned from the growing Benghazi scandal that the best way to handle such controversies is to get out in front of them, and put it all out there, rather than let it drip, drip, drip, as is now happening with the recent IRS blowup....[view article]
Washington Times - May 15, 2013
House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that it'll take more than firings to clear up the IRS scandal - it'll take someone ending up serving jail time....[view article]
CNS News - May 15, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service has given no indication to the House Ways and Means Committee about whether it will respond to the committee's demand, delivered in writing last Friday, that the agency hand over copies of all internal communications containing the words "tea party," "patriot," or "conservative" and the names and titles of all IRS officials involved in discriminating against tea party and conservative groups when they submitted applications for tax-exempt status....[view article]
Washington Times - May 15, 2013
Senators fended off changes to the immigration bill in committee on Tuesday, but the first cracks emerged in the carefully crafted compromise between business groups and labor unions, leaving even some supporters frustrated at the defensive votes they had to cast....[view article]
- May 15, 2013
Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. ...[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - May 15, 2013
In a recent column published by The American Spectator, a healthcare policy analyst addresses the continued concern over President Barack Obama's so-called "death panel." Without the Independent Payment Advisory Board in place, the analyst argues that ObamaCare "can only be classified as DOA."...[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 15, 2013
After the conviction of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell on murder charges, Operation Rescue has been repeatedly asked if there is any evidence that similar practices exist at abortion clinics elsewhere in the nation.
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- May 14, 2013
For more than three decades, Kermit Barron Gosnell made his name providing abortions in the most difficult cases - the poor, the uninsured, and women pushing the 24-week threshold when abortion becomes illegal in Pennsylvania....[view article]
WorldNetDaily - May 14, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service already has confessed to targeting and trying to injure tea party, Constitution and patriot organizations, by demanding answers to arbitrary questions and delaying their applications for a tax status so they could operate....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - May 14, 2013
The Navy is preparing to launch an unmanned aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time....[view article]
The Independant - May 14, 2013
It's one faster, isn't it? With most people still waiting to upgrade to a phone or contract package that will allow them to skim the internet using 4G, it is with a weary shrug to the inevitability of progress that we acknowledge the news from South Korea that 5G mobile internet is on its way....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 14, 2013
Scandal politics are sweeping Capitol Hill.
Just days after news broke that the IRS targeted conservative nonprofits, Speaker John Boehner’s House committees will morph into mock courtrooms where the White House will be the defendant in what amounts to a number of high-stakes political trials....[view article]
- May 14, 2013
The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel said Monday that the authors of an independent investigation into the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, should answer questions about their work at a congressional hearing, not in a private deposition that the Republicans want....[view article]
The Blaze - May 14, 2013
Truth about Benghazi coming forth....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 14, 2013
Reporters across The Associated Press are outraged over the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of staff phone records - and they say such an intrusion could chill their relationships with confidential sources....[view article]
The New Yorker - May 13, 2013
For a long time, it seemed like the idea of a coverup was just a Republican obsession. But now there is something to it! It is not going away!...[view article]
Time - May 13, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That's obvious....[view article]
The Washington Post - May 13, 2013
IRS applied a new political test to groups that applied for tax-exempt status as "social welfare" groups, the document says. On Jan. 15, 2012 the agency decided to target "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform movement.," according to the appendix in the IG report, which was requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and has yet to be released....[view article]
The Washington Post - May 13, 2013
Just two years after colonists established the first permanent English settlement in the Americas at Jamestown, disaster struck. During the winter of 1609-1610, known as the "starving time," about 80 percent of the colonists died....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 13, 2013
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the fatal attacks on American diplomats in Benghazi could lead to President Barack Obama's impeachment during a radio interview Friday....[view article]
Reuters - May 13, 2013
A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi and how President Barack Obama's administration responded to the unfolding events....[view article]
Washington Times - May 13, 2013
By their second term "inside the bubble," presidents have completely lost touch with reality: Aides and confidants conspire to keep the chief executive insulated from the real world - the bad news, the worse press coverage. They think it's their job, and lounging on the Oval Office couches, they nod along with the president's every musing....[view article]
Reuters - May 13, 2013
Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday....[view article]
Fox News - May 9, 2013
A Georgia school district will no longer allow prayers or songs with religious references at graduation ceremonies after a Wisconsin group threatened to file a lawsuit and suggested that forcing non-Christian students to listen to religious music was a form of bullying....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 9, 2013
The watchdog who tracks the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan says government officials have tried to silence him because they think he's embarrassing the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai by pointing out the waste and fraud....[view article]
PC World - May 9, 2013
The times, they are a-changin'-but a new Google timelapse project shows just how much the world's geography is a-changin' too, based on nearly 30 years of satellite imagery....[view article]
Washington Times - May 8, 2013
The Benghazi scandal could be the final "hinge point" that brings down the Obama administration, former U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton said....[view article]
The New York Times - May 8, 2013
The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations....[view article]
New Republic - May 8, 2013
Democrats are worried about the implementation of Obamacare. And their angst is making news. Today Jackie Calmes of the New York Times reports that Democrats have been peppering the White House with questions-and demanding the administration start putting out more information, so that the law's critics don't soak up all of the oxygen on the airwaves....[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 8, 2013
A world-wide call to pray and fast for the USA went out from Australia and New Zealand on 25 April 2013 from the team at Australia's National Day of Prayer and Fasting. The video Call to Prayer can be seen at www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au....[view article]
Worthy News - May 8, 2013
Christian-run children's home in India was attacked in April by a cult group of Moslems who assaulted its staff and visitors and then damaged its property, according to Barnabas Aid....[view article]
CBSNews.com - May 8, 2013
Hoping to funnel into one chronological timeline the rampantly varying accounts of how President Obama's administration responded last Sept. 11 in the wake of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday will hear from three "whistleblowers" expected to offer testimony enormously at odds with the administration's characterization of a strike that killed four Americans....[view article]
Washington Times - May 8, 2013
Libyan security personnel were also killed in the terror attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya last year, lawmakers were reminded Wednesday....[view article]
Washington Free Beacon - May 8, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) wrote Tuesday he believes major revelations about the lead up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, are imminent....[view article]
Breitbart - May 8, 2013
Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, has planned a memorial service Wednesday for the deceased infants retrieved from the clinic of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who is on trial for the murder of a patient and babies born alive during abortion procedures....[view article]
The Hill - May 8, 2013
New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are pulling Hillary Clinton back into a political firestorm that the presumptive 2016 candidate had so far managed to escape unscathed....[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - May 8, 2013
Delaware will become the 11th state to legalize "gay marriage" effective July 1....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 8, 2013
Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won’t finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”...[view article]
CNN - May 7, 2013
Internet shoppers could be one step closer to having to pay sales taxes on online purchases....[view article]
PC World - May 7, 2013
Last week my website and the No Agenda podcast listener support page were both blacklisted for malware. In some instances I am still waiting for the blacklisting to be lifted. Peachy....[view article]
- May 7, 2013
During the rebel takeover of northern Mali in April 2012, many women said they were subjected to rape or sexual assault. Since then, little or no support has come through for these women, say aid workers....[view article]
- May 7, 2013
Tens of thousands of people are vulnerable to being trafficked in Southeast Asia, with governments struggling to understand and respond collectively to the problem, say experts and government officials....[view article]
Christian Science Monitor - May 7, 2013
A day after it launched an airstrike outside of Damascus, killing scores of Syrian soldiers, Israel sought to play down the attack as a strike against regime-ally Hezbollah, not President Bashar al-Assad....[view article]
Washington Free Beacon - May 7, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) wrote Tuesday he believes major revelations about the lead up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, are imminent, in a Facebook message:...[view article]
The American Interest - May 7, 2013
So far, 2013 has been a bush league year in American politics. Gay marriage, gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants are hot button emotional issues and they have a lot of practical importance for a lot of people, but the republic will not stand or fall based on lesbian prenups, gun background checks or green cards for those immigrants formerly known as illegal....[view article]
The Week - May 7, 2013
And we should still demand answers regarding the Obama administration's disingenuous handling of the attack! Expose the lies....[view article]
LA Times - May 7, 2013
The ratio of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is flirting with 400 parts per million, a level last seen about 2.5 million to 5 million years ago, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego....[view article]
LA Times - May 7, 2013
'Wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier,' says a scientist, describing the findings of a NASA-led study on rainfall trends. Drought-prone places include the Southwestern United States....[view article]
- May 7, 2013
he [British] National Archives (BNA) is an executive agency of the government of the United Kingdom. Based in Kew in southwest London, the BNA is the UK government's official archive, containing 1,000 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records from parchment and paper scrolls to digital files and archived websites, including Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence and files. The collections held by the BNA can be searched using their online catalogue. Entrance to the Archives...[view article]
Xfinity - May 6, 2013
Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours — an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war....[view article]
The Free Beacon - May 6, 2013
Russian strategic bombers conducted flights within the U.S. defense zone close to northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands last week in Moscow's latest incident of nuclear saber rattling against the United States, according to defense and military officials....[view article]
Breitbart - May 6, 2013
In an appearance on Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Darrell Issa revealed several new pieces of information about the Obama administration's controversial description of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, casting doubt that the White House mischaracterized its cause by mere accident....[view article]
LA Times - May 2, 2013
Many part-timers are facing a double whammy from President Obama's Affordable Care Act. The law requires large employers offering health insurance to include part-time employees working 30 hours a week or more. But rather than provide healthcare to more workers, a growing number of employers are cutting back employee hours instead....[view article]
Washington Times - May 2, 2013
As the Obama administration prepares to launch a new round of strategic nuclear missile cuts, Russia’s strategic nuclear forces are undergoing a major modernization, according to U.S. officials....[view article]
Weekly Standard - May 1, 2013
President Barack Obama said today at a press conference that he's "not familiar" with reports that Benghazi whistleblowers are being threatened: BUT......[view article]
Judicial Watch - May 1, 2013
For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it....[view article]
- May 1, 2013
A prominent pastor was allegedly disinvited from speaking at Morehouse College’s baccalaureate service this week after he spoke the truth about Obama....[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 1, 2013
Rush Limbaugh said Penn State's Sandusky was gay. Bill O'Reilly retorted (1) "homosexuality has nothing to do with the crime of pedophilia." Really, O'Reilly?...[view article]
US News & World Report - April 30, 2013
The Government Accountability Office tells Whispers it is now investigating large ammunition purchases made by the Department of Homeland Security. Chuck Young, a spokesman for GAO, says the investigation of the purchases is "just getting...[view article]
Reuters - April 30, 2013
A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said....[view article]
Breitbart - April 29, 2013
According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours)....[view article]
The Washington Post - April 29, 2013
An antiabortion group that mounted a six-month undercover investigation has released videos this week that raise questions about what might happen to a baby as a result of an unsuccessful abortion....[view article]
Fox News - April 26, 2013
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their "massive" bullet buys....[view article]
