IRS-Gate: The Potential Criminal Implications

With the announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder of a criminal investigation of the IRS over the agency’s targeting of conservative Tea Party and other groups, a key question that has arisen is: What are the relevant federal criminal laws that might apply to the misconduct of IRS employees? There are a number of provisions […]

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Missile Defense Testing Necessary to Protect America

Newscom The growing threat from long-range nuclear missiles endangers the lives of millions of Americans while upsetting regional and global stability. The latest flare-up on the Korean Peninsula is a sobering reminder of this harsh reality. To protect Americans effectively against rogue attacks in the near future, a rigorous program of missile defense testing must […]

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The Good Ol’ Progressive Contempt for the Founding

Album/Oronoz/Newscom Any conservative who takes his bearings from America’s founding principles can’t help but miss the candor with which the early Progressives dismissed our founding documents as antiquated relics of a bygone era. Unlike liberal politicians from FDR onward who couch their statist agenda in the rhetoric of the Founding, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Croly, and […]

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Slain Benghazi Officer’s Mom: Obama, Clinton, Rice ‘All Told Me About The Reason This Happened Was the Video’ – ‘They Were Hugging Me’

(CNSNews.com) – The mother of diplomat Sean Smith, who was killed in the Benghazi terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2012, said that at her son’s memorial service President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Ambassador Susan Rice told her that the attack occurred because of an anti-Muslim video, although evidence now shows the […]

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686 Candidates Vie to Replace Ahmadinejad as Iranian President

A total of 686 candidates are vying replace Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the country’s upcoming June national election, Iran’s state-run Press TV reported. Among those who have registered to be considered for the post are Ahmadinejad’s top aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei and former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Ahmadinejad, who is term-limited and cannot […]

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El Salvador Establishes Ties with the Palestinian Authority

El Salvador established diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority on Friday, the Global Post reports. The move comes a week after Denmark and Finland became the latest European countries to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority’s diplomatic missions in their countries. Garnering official recognition as a state from as many countries as possible has […]

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Stephen Hawking’s Media Mess

May 9, 2013 14:51 by Simon Plosker This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor, Simon Plosker, is reproduced from The Times of Israel. Professor Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott Israel’s President’s Conference left a nasty taste in the mouth. It wasn’t only the fact that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was able to claim a […]

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U.S. to Boycott Iran-Led Disarmament Conference

The United States will boycott meetings of the UN Conference on Disarmament when Iran takes over the body this month, a U.S. spokeswoman said Monday. Iran, and any nation facing sanctions for its weapons program, should be “barred” from holding formal UN positions, said Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the U.S. mission at the United Nations, […]

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