(CNSNews.com) – Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is calling on Americans to wake up and recognize that the Founding Fathers’ vision of religious freedom is now threatened by the federal government. “The day when Americans could take the Founders’ understanding of religious freedom as a given is over,” said the archbishop. “We need to […]
Newscom President Obama’s jarring choice of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to be the Administration’s new National Security Adviser showcases the President’s willingness to ride off a foreign policy cliff hand in hand with his ideological soul mate. In choosing Rice, the President fired a political shot across the bow of […]
We have arrived at a defining moment for the progressive movement in this nation. The New York Times editorial board, which has generally given this president a lot of leeway throughout his career, wrote a scathing denunciation Friday of the Obama administration’s use of data mining, claiming that “the administration has now lost all credibility” on the […]
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Newscom On the margins of the general assembly of the Organization of American States in Guatemala, Secretary of State John Kerry met with Venezuela’s foreign minister, Elias Jaua, representing the democratically challenged and crisis-prone government of Nicolas Maduro, handpicked successor of the late Hugo Chavez and self-proclaimed victor of the April 14 presidential elections. […]
Photo credit: Jay Mallin/ZUMA Press/Newscom Senator John Cornyn (R–TX) will propose an amendment to the Senate immigration bill entitled “Requiring Enforcement, Security and safety, Upgrading Legitimate Trade and travel Simultaneously” (RESULTS). It should really be called the “NO-RESULTS” amendment. The amendment raises constitutional concerns and fails to solve the enforcement problems in the bill. Before […]
By United Press International June 6, 2013 6:57 am The FBI is amassing millions of U.S. Verizon customers’ cellphone records for a top-secret Defense Department domestic spying program, a court order indicates.The program requires Verizon Business Services to give the FBI an “ongoing, daily” download of “all call detail records,” including caller and recipient locations, […]
Anti-Semitic Cartoon: Norwegian Paper Compares Jewish Reaction to Mohammed Cartoon Riots June 6, 2013 16:44 by Simon Plosker The incredibly offensive cartoon published last week by Norway’s third largest newspaper, Dagbladet, generated a huge volume of emails to the editor. While we cannot vouch for the language used by all of the complainants, it is […]
HAMMI/SIPA/Newscom Has Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally worn out his welcome? The anti-government protests that began last Friday in Taksim Square against Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian leadership could become the start of a “Turkish Spring.” At the very least, if Erdogan does not implement serious reforms and address the widespread and legitimate grievances of […]
Strunin Anatoly Itar-Tass Photos/Newscom Late last night, the House Armed Services Committee drew a line on American military relations with Burma. The committee passed an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act offered by Representative Trent Franks (R–AZ) expressing the sense of Congress that “the Department of Defense should fully consider and assess the […]
By Bobby Eberle June 5, 2013 12:53 pm Forget all about actual guns, cap guns, guns made from sticks, or even a drawing for a gun. Now, it appears that children can’t even say the word “gun” or else risk getting in trouble not only with the school system but also with local law enforcement. […]
