White House press secretary Jay Carney said the Obama administration is ‘extremely disappointed’ by Russia granting NSA leaker Edward Snowden temporary asylum. There has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us […]
Former Malian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Ibrahim Bboubacar Keita (C) (HABIBOU KOUYATE/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) The first round of elections held over the weekend in Mali were hastily declared free and fair by the French and the international community quickly followed suit. Thankfully, they were also largely peaceful. However, substantial electoral irregularities could undermine future stability […]
Photo credit: Moment/ZUMA Press/Newscom A recent report by the Guttmacher Institute reveals that more teens are choosing to delay sexual activity. The median age for first sexual intercourse is approaching 18 years of age for those born in 1991. The median age for those born in 1978 was 17 years of age. Now, less than […]
Jim Pickerell Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom On Friday, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a temporary halt to the coercive Obamacare mandate that requires employers to provide coverage of abortion-inducing drugs. The ruling, which rejected claims under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is at odds with a June en banc decision […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Daniel Yohannes, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (State Department/Sipa USA/Newscom) The U.S. government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board of Directors recently approved a five-year, $140 million compact with the nation of Georgia “to increase the quality of human capital by investing in science and technology education […]
Why are so many incredibly important news stories completely ignored by the mainstream media in the United States? Why do they seem to want to avoid many “controversial questions” as if they were the plague? Why does the media tend to label those that are willing to ask the hard questions and seek the truth […]
Lean is a concoction made from certain prescription cough syrups and a beverage medium, often made more palatable with candy like Skittles. One of the recipes for “lean” calls for using Arizona Iced Tea Co.watermelon fruit juice cocktail as the beverage of choice, and Skittles candy… the items found on Trayvon Martin’s body the night he was shot […]
House Cloakroom: July 29 – August 2 Analysis: This week, the House will be in session for four days before members leave for August recess. The theme for the legislative week will be “Stop Government Abuse.” The House will consider a bill by Representative Todd Young (R-IN) designed to rein in growing red tape and […]
Sixty years ago today, the armistice was signed to end the brutal three-year war that had devastated the Korean Peninsula. North Korea’s invasion in June 1950 made all too clear the true nature of the regime — its willingness to blatantly violate international agreements, its eagerness to use military attacks to achieve political objectives, and […]
AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/GettyImages/Newscom Rumors of the disappearance of the Benghazi scandal are vastly premature. This week, Special Forces veterans gathered on Capitol Hill to unveil a 60-foot scroll of signatures demanding a discharge petition for legislation authorizing a House select committee to investigate Benghazi. In April, appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State […]
