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May 29, 2014
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May 29, 2014
CLIFF KINCAID — One of the major speakers at last week's "New Populism" conference was Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a labor union which represents on-line writers, reporters, editorial assistants, editorial artists, and correspondents at major news organizations.... (more)


May 29, 2014
NEWSMAX — Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham has slammed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for proclaiming himself "anti-amnesty" in the run-up to his primary in June.... (more)


May 29, 2014
THE HILL — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wasn't up for reelection this year, but his presence was felt up and down the GOP primary ballot in the Lone Star State. The only candidate Cruz endorsed won her primary fight on Tuesday, while incumbent candidates he ignored went down to defeat.... (more)


May 29, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — A 2010 Pentagon directive on military support to civilian authorities details what critics say is a troubling policy that envisions the Obama administration's potential use of military force against Americans.... (more)


May 29, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — While President Obama told West Point graduates Wednesday he "believes in American exceptionalism," his foreign-policy track record doesn't reflect it, which is weakening U.S. influence worldwide, charged a member of the House Armed Services Committee.... (more)


May 29, 2014
NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama's foreign policy speech bombed at West Point, getting a "pretty icy" reception from the graduating cadets, CNN's international correspondent Jim Clancy says.... (more)


May 29, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — It was perhaps the most dramatic moment, so far, in the deadly VA scandal. Having lost all patience with the witness, the congressman cut her off at the top of his voice. "Maam, maam, maam!" bellowed Veterans Affairs committee chairman Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., "Veterans died!"... (more)


May 29, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — Staff at the Phoenix VA hospital doctored their records, keeping hundreds of veterans off the official waiting lists and ensuring some would never get to see a doctor for treatment, according to a preliminary audit released Wednesday that confirms some of the worst accusations in the burgeoning scandal.... (more)


May 29, 2014
NEWSMAX — American Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was murdered with three other Americans in Benghazi in 2012, was involved in a secret U.S. arms deal with al-Qaida-backed Libyan rebels, retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely has claimed.... (more)


May 29, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — Joe Nacchio, the former chief of Denver-based Qwest Communications who was convicted on more than a dozen counts of insider trading and sent to prison for nearly five years, says the National Security Agency first blackballed his company, then federal authorities refused to allow him to explain his side when he was on trial.... (more)


May 29, 2014
NEWSMAX — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch conceded Wednesday it's only a matter of time before gay marriage is legal across the country, even though he doesn't think that's the right way to go.... (more)


May 29, 2014
BRYAN FISCHER — We stand as a culture at a critical point in our understanding and definition of marriage. With out-of-control tyrants wearing black robes substituting their fevered imaginations for the express will of the people in state after state, our nation is being engulfed with a tsunami of wrong-headed and societally fatal decisions regarding marriage.... (more)


May 29, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — American fertility has reached a record low, driven by falling birthrates among teens and women in their early 20s, the federal government says in a new report being released Thursday.... (more)


May 29, 2014
THE INDEPENDENT — Conspiracy theorists may chuckle when they learn a debate entitled "Does Privacy Exist?" is to feature at this year's Bilderberg conference, the notoriously secretive gathering of the world's most powerful bankers, politicians and business people.... (more)


May 29, 2014
NEWSMAX — Four girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month have escaped their captors, the education commissioner for Nigeria's Borno state said on Wednesday, leaving 219 still missing.... (more)


May 29, 2014
NEWSMAX — America's rural hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open, unable to absorb Obamacare-induced cuts in Medicare or fund costly mandatory systems upgrades, Fox News reports.... (more)


May 29, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — Billionaire Donald Trump has revealed he offered Barack Obama a $50 million donation to the president's favorite charities in exchange for releasing his personal records, but Obama never responded.... (more)


May 28, 2014
NEWSMAX — Huge victories by tea party-backed Republicans in the top two runoff contests in Texas on Tuesday proved that "the tea party ain't dead," Democratic pollster and analyst Doug Schoen told Newsmax.... (more)


May 28, 2014
NEWSMAX — Edward Snowden says he was a spy, not a mere low-level contract employee as he has been portrayed by the media, members of Congress, and even President Barack Obama, NBC News reports.... (more)


May 28, 2014
MICHAEL HAYDEN — NBC News will air Wednesday an hourlong special with anchor Brian Williams in Russia interviewing former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. I'm not exactly enthused by the prospect, but I am hoping that Mr. Williams asks some tough questions.... (more)


May 28, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — Parents of students in one Florida school were shocked to discover, after the fact, their children's irises were scanned for a new school-security system.... (more)


May 28, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — A Colorado man is $25,000 richer after the city of Thornton compensated him for his arrest by police officers for legally carrying a gun. That's right. Legally.... (more)


May 28, 2014
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — The problems with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs giving inferior and delayed care to veterans is a good window into the future of Obamacare. Both the VA and Obamacare suffer the endemic problems of a government-run single-payer system (a.k.a. socialism) -- no choice of doctors or hospitals, no insurance companies, broken promises, lengthy waits and bureaucratic cover-ups.... (more)


May 28, 2014
MICHELLE MALKIN — Behold Canada and America. One country supports the efforts of a U.S. Special Forces soldier's widow to hold accountable the jihadist who killed her husband and the father of her two young children. The other country helped free that jihadist from Guantanamo Bay in a shady deal that appeased his far-left allies.... (more)


May 26, 2014
All honor to American soldiers--our humble gratitude and heartfelt thanks
ALAN KEYES — This weekend, America unites in solemn remembrance of every member of the Armed Forces who has fought and died defending our nation, in the never-ending struggle to preserve and protect the God-given liberty enshrined in our Declaration of Independence, and codified as law in our Constitution... (more)

 
 
 
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