United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had failed to fulfill his campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression, Reuters reported. Ban also noted the sharp rise in executions since Rouhani’s election. He made the comments in a report to the UN Human Rights Council. “The new administration […]
(CNSNews.com) – The D.C. City Council voted Tuesday to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, making possession an ounce or less of the drug a civil offense punishable by a fine of $25. Councilmember Tommy Wells, the bill’s lead sponsor, called the vote “a victory for social justice and a major step for the nation’s capital.” […]
(CNSNews.com) – The Justice Department is planning to spend $750,000 to train “medium to high-risk” incarcerated adults and juveniles in the technology field. According to the grant solicitation, “the target population must include medium to high-risk offenders as identified using a validated assessment tool. ‘High-risk offenders’ are defined as individuals that score moderate to high […]
Getty Images If a teenager spends a year in jail for dealing drugs, it is in nobody’s interest for that sentence to become a life sentence to poverty. Despite that, if you commit a crime your chances of rising up the economic ladder are slim. According to Pew, incarceration causes, “lifelong damage to the ability […]
An Islamic terrorist from Jordan briefly worked as an Obamacare navigator in Illinois she was involved in a deadly grocery store bombing and two other terrorism attacks. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh was convicted in Israel for her role in several bombings, including the 1969 attack on an upscale Shufersol grocery store, which killed two Hebrew University […]
WASHINGTON – Experts agreed that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative, pro-life, and evangelical groups in 2012 ties directly back to President Obama’s campaign style before his presidency. The best way to look at this is as a continuum of a very long and determined political strategy that dates back to 2008 and a […]
Susan Rice ought to stay off “Meet the Press.” The last time she was on, she misrepresented what led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. On Sunday she was back, this time misrepresenting critics of the Obama administration’s Syria policy. Last time her misrepresentation was unintentional. This time it wasn’t. I prefer […]
Former DEA administrator Peter Bensinger is like a lonely voice crying out in the wilderness – an anti-drug crusader who served three American presidents, now battling the perils of pot at a time when legalization is all the rage. “I think it’s a disaster,” he told “Power Players” of the rapid growth in sales of […]
The Obama Administration’s Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is poised to place government monitors in newsrooms across the country in an absurdly draconian attempt to intimidate and control the media. Before you dismiss this assertion as utterly preposterous (we all know how that turned out when the Tea Party complained that it was being targeted by […]
(LifeSiteNews.com) – A former Planned Parenthood worker has opened up to her diocesan newspaper in a gripping tell-all interview, saying she was shocked at the horrors she witnessed during the two years she worked in Indiana’s largest abortion facility. Marianne Anderson is a nurse who assisted Planned Parenthood abortionists by partially sedating women who paid […]
