Indiana Governor Defends Expansion of Medicaid Alternative to 350,000

Photo: Rick D’Elia/EPA/Newscom Fresh off his proposal last week to expand Indiana’s alternative Medicaid program, Gov. Mike Pence today defended his decision to ask for federal approval to make more Hoosiers eligible. Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, the Republican governor promoted the Healthy Indiana Plan and his efforts to expand the program, started in […]

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Education Spending Is Up, Test Scores Aren’t. Who’s to Blame?

Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education recently released the 2013 results of math and reading achievement for 12th graders on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It’s hard to say what’s been achieved. According to the NAEP—a standardized test often referred to as the nation’s “report card”—just 26 percent of the […]

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Benham Brothers Can Bank on SunTrust After All

Photo: Erik S. Lesser/EPA/Newscom SunTrust Bank will continue to do business with David and Jason Benham, reversing course after the twin brothers publicly announced the bank had cut ties. SunTrust said a “third party vendor” had misapplied corporate policy in severing ties with the real-estate entrepreneurs — who lost a cable TV show a week […]

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Ethnic Russians Are People, Too

There’s an odor of prejudice in how the mainstream U.S. news media treats the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, as if they are mindless beings, easily duped “minions” of Vladimir Putin. But this bias reflects more negatively on the U.S. press than on the people who are being insulted, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry […]

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Issa Says HHS Secretary ‘Willfully Failing’ to Comply With Subpoena

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom) Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “willfully failing” to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In a letter sent yesterday to Sebelius, who recently resigned, Issa wrote that HHS had been slow in […]

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Obama Administration Threatened Nigeria with Sanctions in 2013 for Fighting Boko Haram

Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Obama administration official who went to bat for Boko Haram over the past few years. Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on […]

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IRS Documents Reveal Washington’s Role in Targeting Tea Party Groups

Photo: Olivier Douliery/ABACAUSA.com Government documents show that Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington coordinated how IRS employees in Cincinnati and Los Angeles should hold up conservative groups’ applications for tax-exempt status, the legal group Judicial Watch announced today. The watchdog group highlighted an email string from nearly two years ago that it says shows IRS […]

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Obama’s Release of 36,000 criminal illegals is another impeachable offense

The reported release last year of more than 36,000 criminal illegal aliens is part of a larger annual trend of thousands of such releases since 2009, according to the authors of a book documenting the case for impeaching President Obama. The Obama administration’s release of the criminals, in numbers larger than what is publicly known, […]

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Is Israel Really Spying on the USA?

May 11, 2014 14:13 by Pesach Benson Newsweek followed up on last week’s controversial article about alleged Israeli spying on the US. The main buzz: Israel tried to spy on Al Gore’s bathroom. One of Newsweek’s sources, retired CIA officer Paul Pillar — according to Algemeiner – supports BDS. As for the other sources, reporter Jeff […]

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