(CNSNews.com) – Former American basketball star Dennis Rodman, who arrived in Pyongyang Monday on his fourth visit to the reclusive Stalinist state, said North Korea was “not bad,” and that Kim Jong-un “is actually trying to change this country in a great way.” Rodman, who has met with Kim – purportedly a basketball fan – […]
A federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of data on nearly every phone call made in the United States is legal, reports CNN. The ruling contrasts with another ruling last week by a federal judge in Washington, who called the same program “almost Orwellian” and likely […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs. The delay rekindled sharp […]
House Analysis: This week, the House may consider legislation to amend the Exchange Information Disclosure Act, a bill designed to increase transparency in the operation of American Health Benefit Exchanges. It may also consider the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act of 2014, a bill to require notifying individuals of breaches of personally identifiable information through the […]
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is leading a class-action lawsuit with hundreds of thousands of Americans against President Barack Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) over its spying on the American people. Sen. Paul will be discussing the lawsuit in an exclusive appearance on Fox News with host Eric Bolling. Paul will file the class action lawsuit […]
by Soeren Kern December 31, 2013 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4113/france-muslim-integration Among the long list of recommendations…the panel says that public schools in France should be taught in Arabic and African languages rather than in French. “It would no longer be up to French immigrants to adopt French culture, but for France to abandon its own […]
Newscom A leading education reform scholar argues that Common Core national standards are leaving students unprepared for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Sandra Stotsky, who served as a senior associate commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Education and worked on the National Validation Committee for the Common Core State Systemic Initiative, writes in the Wall […]
AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIERKAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images Obamacare has not quelled the public’s desire for health care reform, according to a new poll released this week by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey, which revealed the public’s list of issues they believe should be Washington’s focus in 2014, found 52 percent […]
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor really knows how to ring in the New Year. Just hours before the countdown to 2014 in Times Square, she granted the Little Sisters of the Poor an eleventh-hour temporary halt to a coercive Obamacare mandate. The Obama Administration has until 10 a.m. Friday to respond to the stay. Without […]
When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg leaves office today he will enter civilian life protected by firearms. The same man who has spent much of his career and personal fortune trying to render good, law-abiding men and women defenseless, will now surround himself with a team of armed bodyguards. Bloomberg’s security detail will be […]
