Secretary Kerry Fumbles at the African Union

State Department/Sipa USA/Newscom Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgency in Nigeria, was called a terrorist organization by Secretary of State John Kerry last week. At the 50th anniversary Summit for the African Union celebrations, Secretary Kerry referred to Boko Haram not as a “terrorist group” in typical State Department–approved terms but as an outright “terrorist organization.” […]

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Hezbollah Escalates Fighting in Syria as Sectarian Tensions Grow in Lebanon

Newscom The Lebanese Shia Islamist militant group Hezbollah is becoming more aggressively involved in Syria’s civil war, which threatens to reopen the old wounds of Lebanon’s 1975–1990 civil war. Hundreds of Hezbollah militants have joined the regime’s offensive to recapture the strategic Syrian town of Qusair, which sits astride an important rebel supply route from […]

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NYC Launches Sex App for Teens on its Website, Includes Directions to Birth Control and Abortion Clinics

(CNSNews.com) – The New York City Health Department’s NYC teen website now includes an app that teens can download to their smart phones to get information on “sexual health,” including where they can get birth control and abortions. The app, under the heading “Important Links and Info,” has three main links – Where to Go; […]

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Amnesty Would Worsen the Entitlement Burden

Tetra Images Tetra Images/Newscom A new study published in Health Affairs looks at the impact of immigrants’ payments into the Medicare trust fund and concludes that immigrants pay more into the fund than they draw out. Reading just the headline of a recent media report, “Study: Immigrants put billions more into Medicare than they use,” […]

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Top Taliban Leader Killed in Pakistan Drone Strike

The Pakistan Taliban’s second-in-command was killed in a drone strike Wednesday in the country’s tribal region, a local tribal official and an intelligence official told CNN. Wali-Ur Rehman Mehsud is second in command to Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the terrorist organization. While the Pakistan Taliban’s spokesman would neither confirm nor deny the report to […]

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Journalists and NGO’s Trash Israel in Secret Facebook Group

May 28, 2013 10:52 by Simon Plosker Following the release of the Israeli government report on Mohammed al-Dura, the Washington Free Beacon reports on a closed Facebook group where journalists and so-called “human rights” officials created an online anti-Israel hate-fest: Journalists and activists mocked the report, attacked the IDF, and claimed pro-Israel lobbyists were influencing […]

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Benghazi Investigation Still Very Much Ongoing

Newscom Benghazi is back in the headlines with a vengeance as investigations continue on several congressional fronts: Representative Darrell Issa (R–CA) subpoenaed the State Department to deliver more email threads on the Benghazi talking points; The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee threatened to subpoena Ambassador Thomas Pickering regarding the Accountability Review Board’s inadequate investigation; […]

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