Lawsuit filed over government funds used in Obama’s Daughters Vacation

The Obama administration is unlawfully withholding public records about the spring break trip to Mexico funded by taxpayers last March for Malia Obama,according to a new lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, the government watchdog organization based in Washington. It’s not the first blackout the government has imposed on the trip, Judicial Watch noted. Press reports of the […]

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Emails reveal Obama Admin regularly enlists Media Matters to spin press

Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by investigators showed that Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency. Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs […]

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Feds Can’t Catch the Cartels’ Cocaine-Filled Submarines

With three-quarters of potential cocaine shipments sliding under their noses, United States authorities are having a hard time keeping up with the Latin American drug cartels. Part of the problem, a new report in The New York Times says, is the fact that the famously daring and elusive drug-running submarines aren’t just operating in the […]

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Turkish Teacher Imprisoned for Likening Erdogan to Hitler

A Turkish school teacher was sentenced to one year in prison for likening Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Adolf Hitler, Anatolia news agency reported. The court found Oktay Zaif, who allegedly showed footage of speeches by Hitler and Erdogan during class, guilty of “politically aiming to distance military students from Prime Minister Erdogan and […]

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Border Security Alone Not Enough to Stem the Tide of Violence

The Texas Department of Agriculture has launched an online video campaign aimed to “shame” the federal government into enhancing U.S. border security. As part of the campaign, called “Texas Traffic—True Stories of Drug and Human Smuggling,” each week over the next four months the Department of Agriculture will release a video chronicling firsthand accounts by […]

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US troops plotted to kill Barack Obama

Four US soldiers plotted to assassinate Barack Obama and overthrow the government, a court has heard. One, private Michael Burnett, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and gang charges in the killings last December of former soldier Michael Roark and his girlfriend, 17-year-old Tiffany York. Burnett said that Roark, who had just left the army, knew […]

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Australia’s ‘Cynical’ Morality Shelters Nazis

Nazi and other war criminals have been allowed to live comfortably in Australia due to “fickle and cynical” government morality, a Jewish community leader alleged, according to the The Sydney Morning Herald. “There has been a gross distortion of decency, allowing fugitives to take the places of refugees,” Jeremy Jones, director of international affairs for […]

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