Exclusive: Cruz, Lee Attempt to Take Down Operation Choke Point

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah plan to introduce a bill today that attempts to unravel the Justice Department’s controversial program Operation Choke Point, The Daily Signal has exclusively learned. “Under President Obama’s reign, the DOJ has abandoned its longstanding tradition of staying out of politics and has instead become a […]

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How Is the IRS Auditing Churches? Group Demands Answers

A nonprofit legal organization that advocates freedom of religion is demanding the Internal Revenue Service explain how it audits churches. “The freedom of religion is too important to … allow an administrative agency with enormous power like the IRS to just do as it pleases, with no accountability,” Erik Stanley, Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel, […]

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Reprieve for NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — To astronomers’ relief, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has won another reprieve. The spacecraft slipped into emergency mode last week nearly 75 million miles from Earth. Ground controllers managed to stabilize the probe Sunday, and NASA announced the good news Monday. Engineers still don’t know what went wrong and will study […]

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Obama: No Politics in Clinton FBI Investigation

U.S. President Barack Obama defended former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton during an interview on Fox News Sunday. While Clinton is set to be interviewed “within weeks” as part of an FBI investigation into whether national security was compromised by her use of a privately owned email server, Obama said that […]

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Behind the Scenes, This GOP Group Pushes Congress to the Right

The Republican Study Committee isn’t the newest conservative caucus on the congressional block. But they’re the oldest, they’re still the biggest, and on occasion, they will throw their weight around on Capitol Hill. The new executive director of the caucus, Scott Parkinson, wants the RSC to use that political clout to build policy consensus among […]

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Joe Lieberman tells Israel that Democrats’ support is waning (VIDEO)

Ex-US Senator Joseph Lieberman told MKs last November that while support for Israel remains bipartisan in the US, it has undergone “attrition” in the Democratic party, which he represented in the Senate for 24 years. Lieberman said that he thought the agreement reached by world powers with Iran was not “tight enough” and that he had […]

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There’s a Name for Trump’s Brand of Politics: Neo-fascism

by Daniel Pipes Philadelphia Inquirer April 8, 2016 Of his many outrageous campaign statements, perhaps Donald J. Trump’s most important ones concern his would-be role as president of the United States. When told that uniformed personnel would disobey his unlawful order as president to torture prisoners and kill civilians, Trump menacingly replied “They won’t refuse. […]

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