An estimated 7-10,000 people showed up today at the Audit The IRS Rally in Washington, D.C. It was a massive turnout.
Click for full story!!It’s a busy day for conservatives at the nation’s Capitol. Members of Congress and activists are holding two separate gatherings, one to protest the IRS’s targeting of conservatives and the other to inform the country of an immigration bill push that GOP Reps. say is dangerous for the country. The immigration rally kicked off at [...]
Click for full story!!Michael Hastings Courtesy of Blue Rider Press/Penguin Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings’ unvarnished 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling Stone, “The Runaway General,” captured the then-supreme commander of [...]
Click for full story!!Robert Mueller, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed to lawmakers that the FBI owns several unmanned aerial vehicles, but has not adopted any strict policies or guidelines yet to govern the use of the controversial aircraft.The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday.
Click for full story!!A nation continues to wait for final word on the Supreme Court’s Big Four cases this term — voting rights, affirmative action, DOMA, and Proposition 8 — but the justices’ closest decision arrived first on Monday, in a 5-4 ruling on Salinas v. Texas in which the conservative members of the Court and Anthony Kennedy determined that if you [...]
Click for full story!!An attempt to secure peace in Afghanistan after 12 years of conflict Talks will take place in new Doha offices to help secure peace From tomorrow all responsibility for security in the country to fall to Afghan soldiers It opens the door for a full withdrawal of U.S. and UK troops in 18 months
Click for full story!!WASHINGTON, June 18 (UPI) – Financial disclosure reports reveal former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Eric Cantor are the two wealthiest U.S. House leaders.Pelosi, a Democrat, is worth at least $24.4 million while Republican Cantor saw his minimum personal wealth rise slightly to nearly $4.4 million in 2012, Politico reported.
Click for full story!!A flurry of votes on amendments to the 2014 Defense Authorization Bill have showed a trend of affirming the status quo and rejecting efforts to roll back the more controversial styles of open-ended detention. The big vote surrounded trying to roll back the NDAA authorization for turning US citizens over to the military to be held without [...]
Click for full story!!This from Breitbart: On Wednesday morning at 9:28 am Capitol Hill Police Officer Sandra Brown left a voice message for Kevin Mooneyhan, Deputy Executive Director of the Tea Party Patriots, the group holding a rally at noon Wednesday on the West Lawn of the Capitol. In the message, Officer Brown told Mr. Mooneyhan that attendees of [...]
Click for full story!!MICHELLE Obama is furious with her husband, President Barack Obama! The First Lady is not happy about Barack’s continuing relationship with his former high school prom sweetheart, who sources say turned to prostitution. Recent reports claimed Michelle and Barack are sleeping in separate bedrooms.
Click for full story!!Federal authorities shut down fourteen 7-Eleven stores in New York and Virginia on Monday, charging nine owners with hiring and harboring illegal immigrants and paying them with social security numbers of other citizens. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal prosecutors say forty additional 7-Eleven’s are still under investigation. Federal authorities shut down fourteen 7-Eleven stores [...]
Click for full story!!“Behind the smiles and the mirth brought about by Hassan Rouhani’s triumph in the first round of the Iranian presidential election there lurks a personal tragedy: his elder son took his own life in 1992 in protest of his father’s close connection with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah,”reports Ynet News. “I hate your government, your lies, [...]
Click for full story!!PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled this week that authorities can seek custody of a child, even where there’s no evidence of abuse or neglect. The case involved a divorced Camden County mother of 9-year-old twin girls. In 2007, she asked New Jersey’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency for help, claiming she [...]
Click for full story!!The IRS, the Department of Defense, the Department of Health and Human Services…the list of government agencies engaging in religious hostility is growing by the day. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the most recent addition to that list, and this week, Liberty responded to the EEOC after it prematurely denied a claim [...]
Click for full story!!West told station WMAL that he could run for Senate, “If I see people that are not taking our country down the right path, if I see people that are not standing up for the right type of principles and putting their own party politics before what is best for the United States of America.”Former Rep. Allen [...]
Click for full story!!Capitol Hill police are trying to block activists attending Wednesday’s “Audit the IRS” rally from also attending a nearly day-long press conference on immigration, hosted by Reps. Steve King and Louie Gohmert. The IRS rally is on the west side of the Capitol, while the immigration event is on the east side. Organizers for the [...]
Click for full story!!It’s a tempting idea. Why not march into Washington, round up all the bad guys and make a citizen’s arrest? Take along a few friends and some handcuffs and exercise your rights as an American citizen? After all, it’s obvious Obama, Holder, Clinton, and a few dozen others have committed crimes, and they’ve jailed American [...]
Click for full story!!(CNSNews.com) – An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, [...]
Click for full story!!Five years ago, NYPD Sergeant Haytham Khalil was indicted for illegally accessing the FBI criminal records and terrorism database on behalf of a friend in a child custody dispute. He pleaded guilty in 2009. Today, Khalil not only is still with the police department, despite his conviction, but he is an integrity control officer in [...]
Click for full story!!A hole opens up in the street and a fluorescent green fluid appears inside. What is that stuff? It sounds like a scene from an episode of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a Nickelodeon slime show or a toxic waste dump.
Click for full story!!The academy, according to information on its web site, offers affordable training, which includes coverage in the “Path of Wicca,” Starlight Vision Series, Herbal Intensive Series, tarot and pendulum use and many other elements important to the practice of Wicca. The educational facility claims to be the first of its kind in New York City.Those [...]
Click for full story!!Realize, first of all, that the normal attention span of elite media is about three days. If you can jam your version of data down their throats for that length of time, you’re golden. Then you’re facing another three days. You start all over again. You being the White House PR flack machine. The overall [...]
Click for full story!!Two United States citizens can’t sue the federal government and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for being subjected to torture while detained by US force during the Iraq War, the Supreme Court decided Monday. The high court rejected an appeal early Monday filed by Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, two US citizens who say Mr. [...]
Click for full story!!… To what could end this dangerous war, and as we had previously reported on, only Russia holds the true balance as Putin has dug in and continues to confound Obama and the West’s plan to destroy Syria thus igniting World War III. As to how Obama will be allowed by the American people to violate [...]
Click for full story!!As I noted here recently, it was a bit of a shock to see Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, tell a House Appropriations subcommittee IRS employees had refused to answer his queries as to who had been responsible for the targeting of conservatives. Today, on NRO, former Americorps IG Gerald Walpin [...]
Click for full story!!US, German, and Polish authorities, after evidence uncovered by the Associated Press, are now taking a look at 94-year-old Michael Karkoc’s reputed past as a Nazi commander. ‘Nazi hunters’ have had major successes and notable failures in finding and deporting Nazis JewishWorldReview.com | (TCSM) Before he successfully immigrated to the US in 1949 to settle [...]
Click for full story!!Let’s be honest. There are certain types of people we are conditioned, by our culture, to not like. These are the people that nobody is going to give us credit for liking, the people we tend to distance ourselves from. For good reason. And yet, these are the sinners Christ most likely would have sought [...]
Click for full story!!A new 253-page Obamacare rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service. Personal health information, or PHI, is highly protected under federal law, but [...]
Click for full story!!When Edward Snowden reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and people around the world. In an act of conscience, Snowden released secret information, saying “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that [...]
Click for full story!!Whistleblower Claims Validated … and Then Some The government is attacking whistleblower Edward Snowden by claiming that he was lying about the scope of the NSA’s spying on Americans. However, CNET reports today: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls. [...]
Click for full story!!On Thursday, President Obama confirmed what reports had been speculating for a few weeks: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons, notably sarin gas, on his own people, and tripping the president’s “red line” that would rouse the United States to greater action. The response includes arming and training the rebels. It turns out that Secretary of [...]
Click for full story!!The other day, as usual, I began the day by checking for messages on the NSA notice board, aka my private e-mail account. Imagine my delight when I discovered that I had received an official invite to Netroots Nation, the annual shindig for undocumented transgender community-organizing Marxists of color. I was bummed out, however, to learn that [...]
Click for full story!!Employees of Bank of America say they were encouraged to lie to customers and were even rewarded for foreclosing on homes, staffers of the financial giant claim in new court documents. Sworn statements from several Bank of America employees contain a number of damning allegations, the latest claims entered as evidence in a multi-state class [...]
Click for full story!!Five years after speaking in front of jubilant and expectant crowds in the German capital while on the presidential campaign trail, President Barack Obama returned to Berlin again on Wednesday. The jubilation and anticipation that greeted Obama’s 2008 speech was nowhere near as evident on Wednesday, with a much smaller and much more reserved crowd watching [...]
Click for full story!!The Indiana town that may be cut in HALF to save it from destitution: Ghost town of Gary plans to demolish neighborhoods and sell decaying homes for $1 to combat crippling depression Gary was once the centre of the country’s booming steel industry Mayor is now trying to come up with a drastic solution to [...]
Click for full story!!Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., appeared on CNN last night and continued to assail the NSA’s collection of detailed information on all Americans’ telephone calls. He specifically accused Director of National Intelligence James Clapper of telling “an outright lie” to Congress, “which is against the law.”
Click for full story!!In responding to President Obama‘s comments during an inteview with PBS’s Charlie Rose on Monday, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly declared that “if evidence is produced that any U.S. intelligence agency is reading emails without a specific warrant, Mr. Obama could very well be impeached.” On Tuesday’s show, as reported by NewsBusters, O’Reilly showed a clip of the interview with Rose:
Click for full story!!DETROIT, June 19 (UPI) – A three-day search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa ended in rural Michigan Wednesday, with police saying it turned up no sign of the missing Teamsters president. Police left empty-handed even after digging was expanded to a lot where a house once stood, CNN reported. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 at age 62 and [...]
Click for full story!!When the story first broke that Democratic Congressman Joe Garcia’s main-man/Chief of Staff/campaign advisor Jeffrey Garcia, along with two others were implicated in an alleged fraudulent absentee ballot request scandal, the political community immediately turned their eyes on the possibility that this same alleged voter fraud could have been conducted in Murphy’s race against former [...]
Click for full story!!Bad news: Amanda Knox has called the reversal by the Cassation ‘painful’ but said she is confident she would be exonerated Italy’s high court today faulted the acquittal of Amanda Knox by the appeals court for the murder of her roommate, ruling that it WAS a ‘sex game gone wrong’ and ordered her back for [...]
Click for full story!!I’ll get into this in more detail later (I’m on deadline for a magazine feature), but this story just landed. Given the LIBOR story, the Interest Rate Swap manipulation story, the Euro gas price manipulation story, the U.S. energy price manipulation story, and (by now) countless others of the “Everything is Rigged” variety, this screams out for immediate notice. Via Bloomberg: Traders [...]
Click for full story!!WASHINGTON – As the technologically sophisticated U.S. faces the increasing threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack from a man-made, high altitude nuclear explosion or an “inevitable” massive solar flare, Republicans in the U.S. House are trying to prepare a defense. They are proposing legislation to protect the vulnerable U.S. electrical grid from an attack so [...]
Click for full story!!Rep. Mike Rogers said on Tuesday that it was not a good idea for the United States to begin talks with the Taliban toward a negotiated peace in Afghanistan. “There hasn’t been much consultation with Congress about reopening the office in Qatar and then recognizing them other than what we’ve read in the media, which [...]
Click for full story!!ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Vince Flynn, a best-selling author of political thriller novels, has died at age 47 after a two-year battle with prostate cancer.
Click for full story!!As preposterous as it may seem, illegal immigrants with drunk-driving, domestic violence, aggravated assault and child abuse convictions will qualify for amnesty under the immigration bill pending in the U.S. Senate unless an amendment introduced by a Texas lawmaker is adopted. Incredibly, groups that would normally be vocal on these sorts of issues have remained [...]
Click for full story!!A conservative political commentator believes Republican senators like Lindsey Graham are only going to guarantee years of left-wing rule if they go along with passage of the Senate amnesty bill. During an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, Senator Graham said conservatives trying to block the immigration reform measure will doom the party and all [...]
Click for full story!!Neifi Juan Acosta ‘issued threat during faculty meeting in November’ Allegedly said: ‘I‘ll put on a vest like the terrorists do and blow you all up’ Principal of New York City middle school under investigation by city officials
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