(CNSNews.com) – Public pension holdings and investments for the nation’s 100 largest public-employee pension systems hit a record high of $3.2 trillion ($3,218,198,000,000) in the first quarter of 2014, a 0.5 percent increase from $3,200.8 billion in the prior quarter, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. At the same time, benefit payments totaled […]
According to a recently published briefing book “obtained by Politico” by the liberal megadonor group Democracy Alliance, “progressives’ long term success hinges on our ability to fundamentally change our current political system – including large questions about who can vote, the role money should play in politics, and what our courts look like.” The briefing, […]
A congressman trying to visit a federal facility housing unaccompanied illegal immigrants from Central America was denied access to the building today. According to a press release, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., attempted to visit the Fort Sill Army post—run by the Department of Health and Human Services—in Lawton, Okla., Tuesday but was told that he would […]
(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back Sunday at the notion that U.S. intervention to remove dictators in Iraq and Libya stoked terrorism and sectarianism, and is consequently to blame for the current crises in those countries. While briefing media in Cairo after talks with Egypt’s new leadership, Kerry was told that many […]
The number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) taken in monthly by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Program has skyrocketed to nearly nine times its March 2012 level, a new Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report shows. Monthly UAC referrals to ORR had been under 1,000 prior to March of 2012, but have surged since […]
BILL O’REILLY: How do you secure the border, Charles? CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Alright, here’s what I’ve been on for years. You start with a fence. It’s very simple. People say, ‘Oh, fences don’t work. You make a ladder.’ Well, then you build two fences, triple strand fences. San Diego did that in the mid 90’s and […]
(CNSNews.com) – Dismissing Republican criticism of Hillary Clinton over the Benghazi terrorist attack, President Clinton referred to ten occasions during the Bush administration when U.S. diplomatic personnel had been killed, and asked where the GOP anger had been then. “When ten different instances occurred when President Bush was in office where American diplomatic personnel were […]
(CNSNews.com) – Condemnation came fast and furious following the Supreme Court ruling on Monday that said the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive and sterilization mandate is unlawful because it infringes on the religious liberty of the business owners who object to providing abortion-inducing drugs to employees. “Today’s decision from five male justices is a direct attack […]
(CNSNews.com) – A body discovered more than two weeks ago near the southern U.S. border has been identified as that of an 11-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala. An Associated Press report said Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez, whose body was discovered on June 15 in La Joya, Texas, was planning to join his brother in Chicago […]
A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say. In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details […]
