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News FeedFox News - May 16, 2013
The sun has unleashed four potent solar flares over the past few days, according to NASA....[view article]
Real Clear Politics - May 16, 2013
The quest to determine why data caps really exist may be starting to wind down. ISPs have admitted, either explicitly or implicitly, that monthly data caps have nothing to do with network congestion....[view article]
Reuters - May 16, 2013
Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care - the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital, the World Health Organization said....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 16, 2013
A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid....[view article]
CBSNews.com - May 16, 2013
Many ladies love their handbags and will spend a lot of money for the latest and greatest, but a new study says what is inside those bags may be covered in germs worse than what you'll find in the bathroom....[view article]
Susan B Anthony List - May 16, 2013
Just days after a Philadelphia jury found abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of the murder of three newborn children and the negligent death of a patient, evidence of similar atrocities has surfaced in Houston, Texas....[view article]
Breitbart - May 16, 2013
The IRS scandal of targeting tea party or conservative organizations grew deeper Wednesday with the revelation that the agency denied tax-exempt status to a pro-life organization because of its hypothetical opposition to Planned Parenthood....[view article]
Family Security Matters - May 15, 2013
You would have thought that the Obama administration would have learned from the growing Benghazi scandal that the best way to handle such controversies is to get out in front of them, and put it all out there, rather than let it drip, drip, drip, as is now happening with the recent IRS blowup....[view article]
Washington Times - May 15, 2013
House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that it'll take more than firings to clear up the IRS scandal - it'll take someone ending up serving jail time....[view article]
CNS News - May 15, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service has given no indication to the House Ways and Means Committee about whether it will respond to the committee's demand, delivered in writing last Friday, that the agency hand over copies of all internal communications containing the words "tea party," "patriot," or "conservative" and the names and titles of all IRS officials involved in discriminating against tea party and conservative groups when they submitted applications for tax-exempt status....[view article]
Washington Times - May 15, 2013
Senators fended off changes to the immigration bill in committee on Tuesday, but the first cracks emerged in the carefully crafted compromise between business groups and labor unions, leaving even some supporters frustrated at the defensive votes they had to cast....[view article]
- May 15, 2013
Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. ...[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - May 15, 2013
In a recent column published by The American Spectator, a healthcare policy analyst addresses the continued concern over President Barack Obama's so-called "death panel." Without the Independent Payment Advisory Board in place, the analyst argues that ObamaCare "can only be classified as DOA."...[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 15, 2013
After the conviction of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell on murder charges, Operation Rescue has been repeatedly asked if there is any evidence that similar practices exist at abortion clinics elsewhere in the nation.
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- May 14, 2013
For more than three decades, Kermit Barron Gosnell made his name providing abortions in the most difficult cases - the poor, the uninsured, and women pushing the 24-week threshold when abortion becomes illegal in Pennsylvania....[view article]
WorldNetDaily - May 14, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service already has confessed to targeting and trying to injure tea party, Constitution and patriot organizations, by demanding answers to arbitrary questions and delaying their applications for a tax status so they could operate....[view article]
AP - Associated Press - May 14, 2013
The Navy is preparing to launch an unmanned aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier for the first time....[view article]
The Independant - May 14, 2013
It's one faster, isn't it? With most people still waiting to upgrade to a phone or contract package that will allow them to skim the internet using 4G, it is with a weary shrug to the inevitability of progress that we acknowledge the news from South Korea that 5G mobile internet is on its way....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 14, 2013
Scandal politics are sweeping Capitol Hill.
Just days after news broke that the IRS targeted conservative nonprofits, Speaker John Boehner’s House committees will morph into mock courtrooms where the White House will be the defendant in what amounts to a number of high-stakes political trials....[view article]
- May 14, 2013
The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel said Monday that the authors of an independent investigation into the deadly assault in Benghazi, Libya, should answer questions about their work at a congressional hearing, not in a private deposition that the Republicans want....[view article]
The Blaze - May 14, 2013
Truth about Benghazi coming forth....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 14, 2013
Reporters across The Associated Press are outraged over the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of staff phone records - and they say such an intrusion could chill their relationships with confidential sources....[view article]
The New Yorker - May 13, 2013
For a long time, it seemed like the idea of a coverup was just a Republican obsession. But now there is something to it! It is not going away!...[view article]
Time - May 13, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That's obvious....[view article]
The Washington Post - May 13, 2013
IRS applied a new political test to groups that applied for tax-exempt status as "social welfare" groups, the document says. On Jan. 15, 2012 the agency decided to target "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform movement.," according to the appendix in the IG report, which was requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and has yet to be released....[view article]
The Washington Post - May 13, 2013
Just two years after colonists established the first permanent English settlement in the Americas at Jamestown, disaster struck. During the winter of 1609-1610, known as the "starving time," about 80 percent of the colonists died....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 13, 2013
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the fatal attacks on American diplomats in Benghazi could lead to President Barack Obama's impeachment during a radio interview Friday....[view article]
Reuters - May 13, 2013
A top Republican on Sunday said he expected more witnesses to step forward with information about last year's deadly attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi and how President Barack Obama's administration responded to the unfolding events....[view article]
Washington Times - May 13, 2013
By their second term "inside the bubble," presidents have completely lost touch with reality: Aides and confidants conspire to keep the chief executive insulated from the real world - the bad news, the worse press coverage. They think it's their job, and lounging on the Oval Office couches, they nod along with the president's every musing....[view article]
Reuters - May 13, 2013
Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday....[view article]
Fox News - May 9, 2013
A Georgia school district will no longer allow prayers or songs with religious references at graduation ceremonies after a Wisconsin group threatened to file a lawsuit and suggested that forcing non-Christian students to listen to religious music was a form of bullying....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 9, 2013
The watchdog who tracks the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan says government officials have tried to silence him because they think he's embarrassing the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai by pointing out the waste and fraud....[view article]
PC World - May 9, 2013
The times, they are a-changin'-but a new Google timelapse project shows just how much the world's geography is a-changin' too, based on nearly 30 years of satellite imagery....[view article]
Washington Times - May 8, 2013
The Benghazi scandal could be the final "hinge point" that brings down the Obama administration, former U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton said....[view article]
The New York Times - May 8, 2013
The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet rather than by traditional phone services, according to officials familiar with the deliberations....[view article]
New Republic - May 8, 2013
Democrats are worried about the implementation of Obamacare. And their angst is making news. Today Jackie Calmes of the New York Times reports that Democrats have been peppering the White House with questions-and demanding the administration start putting out more information, so that the law's critics don't soak up all of the oxygen on the airwaves....[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 8, 2013
A world-wide call to pray and fast for the USA went out from Australia and New Zealand on 25 April 2013 from the team at Australia's National Day of Prayer and Fasting. The video Call to Prayer can be seen at www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au....[view article]
Worthy News - May 8, 2013
Christian-run children's home in India was attacked in April by a cult group of Moslems who assaulted its staff and visitors and then damaged its property, according to Barnabas Aid....[view article]
CBSNews.com - May 8, 2013
Hoping to funnel into one chronological timeline the rampantly varying accounts of how President Obama's administration responded last Sept. 11 in the wake of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday will hear from three "whistleblowers" expected to offer testimony enormously at odds with the administration's characterization of a strike that killed four Americans....[view article]
Washington Times - May 8, 2013
Libyan security personnel were also killed in the terror attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya last year, lawmakers were reminded Wednesday....[view article]
Washington Free Beacon - May 8, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) wrote Tuesday he believes major revelations about the lead up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, are imminent....[view article]
Breitbart - May 8, 2013
Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, has planned a memorial service Wednesday for the deceased infants retrieved from the clinic of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who is on trial for the murder of a patient and babies born alive during abortion procedures....[view article]
The Hill - May 8, 2013
New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are pulling Hillary Clinton back into a political firestorm that the presumptive 2016 candidate had so far managed to escape unscathed....[view article]
OneNewsNow.com - May 8, 2013
Delaware will become the 11th state to legalize "gay marriage" effective July 1....[view article]
POLITICO.com - May 8, 2013
Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won’t finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”...[view article]
CNN - May 7, 2013
Internet shoppers could be one step closer to having to pay sales taxes on online purchases....[view article]
PC World - May 7, 2013
Last week my website and the No Agenda podcast listener support page were both blacklisted for malware. In some instances I am still waiting for the blacklisting to be lifted. Peachy....[view article]
- May 7, 2013
During the rebel takeover of northern Mali in April 2012, many women said they were subjected to rape or sexual assault. Since then, little or no support has come through for these women, say aid workers....[view article]
- May 7, 2013
Tens of thousands of people are vulnerable to being trafficked in Southeast Asia, with governments struggling to understand and respond collectively to the problem, say experts and government officials....[view article]
Christian Science Monitor - May 7, 2013
A day after it launched an airstrike outside of Damascus, killing scores of Syrian soldiers, Israel sought to play down the attack as a strike against regime-ally Hezbollah, not President Bashar al-Assad....[view article]
Washington Free Beacon - May 7, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) wrote Tuesday he believes major revelations about the lead up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, are imminent, in a Facebook message:...[view article]
The American Interest - May 7, 2013
So far, 2013 has been a bush league year in American politics. Gay marriage, gun control and amnesty for illegal immigrants are hot button emotional issues and they have a lot of practical importance for a lot of people, but the republic will not stand or fall based on lesbian prenups, gun background checks or green cards for those immigrants formerly known as illegal....[view article]
The Week - May 7, 2013
And we should still demand answers regarding the Obama administration's disingenuous handling of the attack! Expose the lies....[view article]
LA Times - May 7, 2013
The ratio of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is flirting with 400 parts per million, a level last seen about 2.5 million to 5 million years ago, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego....[view article]
LA Times - May 7, 2013
'Wet areas will get wetter and dry areas will get drier,' says a scientist, describing the findings of a NASA-led study on rainfall trends. Drought-prone places include the Southwestern United States....[view article]
- May 7, 2013
he [British] National Archives (BNA) is an executive agency of the government of the United Kingdom. Based in Kew in southwest London, the BNA is the UK government's official archive, containing 1,000 years of history from Domesday Book to the present, with records from parchment and paper scrolls to digital files and archived websites, including Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence and files. The collections held by the BNA can be searched using their online catalogue. Entrance to the Archives...[view article]
Xfinity - May 6, 2013
Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defenses on its northern border Sunday to shield against possible retaliation after carrying out two airstrikes in Syria over 48 hours — an unprecedented escalation of Israeli involvement in the Syrian civil war....[view article]
The Free Beacon - May 6, 2013
Russian strategic bombers conducted flights within the U.S. defense zone close to northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands last week in Moscow's latest incident of nuclear saber rattling against the United States, according to defense and military officials....[view article]
Breitbart - May 6, 2013
In an appearance on Face the Nation this morning, Rep. Darrell Issa revealed several new pieces of information about the Obama administration's controversial description of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, casting doubt that the White House mischaracterized its cause by mere accident....[view article]
LA Times - May 2, 2013
Many part-timers are facing a double whammy from President Obama's Affordable Care Act. The law requires large employers offering health insurance to include part-time employees working 30 hours a week or more. But rather than provide healthcare to more workers, a growing number of employers are cutting back employee hours instead....[view article]
Washington Times - May 2, 2013
As the Obama administration prepares to launch a new round of strategic nuclear missile cuts, Russia’s strategic nuclear forces are undergoing a major modernization, according to U.S. officials....[view article]
Weekly Standard - May 1, 2013
President Barack Obama said today at a press conference that he's "not familiar" with reports that Benghazi whistleblowers are being threatened: BUT......[view article]
Judicial Watch - May 1, 2013
For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it....[view article]
- May 1, 2013
A prominent pastor was allegedly disinvited from speaking at Morehouse College’s baccalaureate service this week after he spoke the truth about Obama....[view article]
Christian Newswire - May 1, 2013
Rush Limbaugh said Penn State's Sandusky was gay. Bill O'Reilly retorted (1) "homosexuality has nothing to do with the crime of pedophilia." Really, O'Reilly?...[view article]
US News & World Report - April 30, 2013
The Government Accountability Office tells Whispers it is now investigating large ammunition purchases made by the Department of Homeland Security. Chuck Young, a spokesman for GAO, says the investigation of the purchases is "just getting...[view article]
Reuters - April 30, 2013
A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said....[view article]
Breitbart - April 29, 2013
According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours)....[view article]
The Washington Post - April 29, 2013
An antiabortion group that mounted a six-month undercover investigation has released videos this week that raise questions about what might happen to a baby as a result of an unsuccessful abortion....[view article]
Fox News - April 26, 2013
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is using roughly 1,000 rounds of ammunition more per person than the U.S. Army, as he and other lawmakers sharply questioned DHS officials on their "massive" bullet buys....[view article]
