The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees the TSA, has asserted that the release of a classified report on TSA security failures will renew calls for the replacement of the agency with private airport security personnel. “The failure rate (for body scanning equipment) is classified but it would absolutely knock your [...]
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Herman Cain on abortion, Take 1: “It’s not the government’s role or anybody else’s role to make that decision. Secondly, if you look at the statistical incidents, you’re not talking about that big a number. So what I’m saying is, it ultimately gets down to a choice that that family or that mother has to [...]
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President Barack Obama told an audience in Nevada on Monday that he will be regularly announcing “executive actions” his administration will take to “heal the economy” without the “dysfunctional” Congress. “I’m here to say to all of you and to say to the people of Nevada and the people of Las Vegas, we can’t wait [...]
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Warnings about Shariah law being applied in America are too late, if the U.S. courts’ assimilation of Islamic religious law is any indication, according to an extensive report on the dispute. A recent Center for Security Policy study called ”Shariah Law and American State Courts: An Assessment of State Appellate Court Cases, confirms it’s already here, and [...]
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Just hours after the Obama administration unveiled enhancements to its anti-foreclosure efforts, House Democrats are already saying it doesn’t go nearly far enough to help the millions of homeowners still struggling from the housing bust. “It’s far too little, it’s just baby steps,” Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), a longtime critic of the administration’s housing policies, [...]
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When I was in college, I took a course in clinical psychology. One day, the professor shared an experience he had with a paranoid schizophrenic patient. In one of his first months working at a mental hospital (as they were then called), he met with the patient in his office. The patient said, “Well, I [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday on CNN that nobody can say “that the stimulus did not create jobs,” but he did not specificy how many jobs he believes President Barack Obama’s stimulus created and how much each of those jobs cost. According to the most recent report on the stimulus by the Congressional Budget [...]
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A New Jersey attorney who brought the first legal challenge to Barack Obama’s occupancy in the Oval Office to the U.S. Supreme Court has published a report revealing that references to a U.S. Supreme Court decision addressing the definition of “natural-born citizen” were scrubbed at one of the key online resources for legal documents. The Minor v. [...]
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A peaceful protest of a Planned Parenthood event in Columbus, Ohio, erupted in violence when an off-duty city police officer hired by the abortion group attacked a colleague who arrived on the scene at the request of pro-lifers, forcing civilians to call 9-1-1 for help. The pro-life group Created Equal had sent 15 to 20 [...]
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Republicans jumped on comments made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that the unemployment crisis is intensifying because of a loss of government jobs, rather than job losses in the private sector, calling him “disconnected from reality.” “The massive layoffs we’ve had in America today are of course rooted in the last administration,” Reid [...]
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“Yesterday in an interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, I was asked questions about abortion policy and the role of the President. I understood the thrust of the question to ask whether that I, as president, would simply “order” people to not seek an abortion. My answer was focused on the role of the President. [...]
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that under the administration’s policy of exercising “prosecutorial discretion” in the enforcement of the immigration laws, her department is currently authorizing some illegal aliens to work in the United States. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, asked Napolitano: [...]
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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch was forced to go through a TSA naked body scanner against his will, according to testimony heard at the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, as lawmakers complained to DHS head Janet Napolitano about the “baloney” Americans were forced to put up with at the hands of “arrogant” TSA screeners. Despite the TSA’s [...]
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Chris Crane, president of a union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, testified in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration last week that ICE agents have been told by ICE headquarters not to arrest illegal aliens who do not have a prior criminal conviction even if they are fugitives who have been ordered deported by [...]
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In an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, President Obama likened the Occupy Wall Street protests where people are living, in the streets of New York and calling for major economic upheavals in America’s capitalist system to the tea party movement against extra-constitutional federal government intrusion.
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