Obama Signs Budget Bill With Unlimited Debt Limit
On November 2, President Obama signed a budget bill into law that increases spending by more than $100 billion and suspends the $18.1 trillion debt limit until 2017. ...
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Russian Media, Putin, Make “Climate Change” a Low Priority
“Climate change” is not a major talking point in the Russian media. Furthermore, notes a Reuters report published by the New York Times on October 29, Russian news professionals...
Neocon Senate Republicans Join Democrats to Pass Mammoth Budget
On October 30, the Republican–controlled Senate voted 64 to 35 to pass the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which began its life in the Republican-controlled House as H.R. 1314. The...
Journalists Say U.S. Boots on Ground in Iraq Is Not New Action
In our October 28 report, we quoted testimony from Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter before the Senate Armed Services Committee on October 27, that the United States will begin...
Defense Secretary: U.S. Will Begin “Direct Action on the Ground” in Iraq, Syria
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on October 27, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said that the United States will begin “direct action on the ground” against...
Obama Pushes Federal Gun Control Laws During Chicago Speech
In his October 27 speech at the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in Chicago, President Obama called for “common-sense gun safety reforms,” which, in the...
In Response to Massive Influx of Refugees, Europeans Seek More Guns
European nations are frantically trying to accommodate the thousands of immigrants fleeing to Europe from the ongoing civil war in Syria. This massive influx, which has been described as...
States, Private Groups File Lawsuits Against EPA
More than half of the states and several professional associations filed lawsuits against the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on October 23, charging that the EPA has exceeded...
Think-tank’s Report Shows That Strong Families Create Prosperous States
The American Enterprise Institute’s Institute for Family Studies issued a report on October 19 indicating that higher levels of married-parent families “are strongly associated with more economic growth, more...
Ole Miss Students Remove State Flag Incorporating Confederate Banner
University of Mississippi student senators voted on October 20 in favor of a resolution asking the university to remove from campus the Mississippi state flag, which includes the Confederate...
Sen. Sessions, Rep. Brat Warn Colleagues to Curb Immigration
In an open letter to congressional colleagues published by the Washington, D.C.-based Roll Call on October 19, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Representative Dave Brat (R-Va.) warned against “immigration reform” that...
Photographer Says His Pictures Were Misused to Prove Global Warming
Accomplished nature photographer Josh Anon has criticized an article published in Britain’s Daily Mail that used his photographs of four polar bears dining on their prey to illustrate an...
Obama Considering Executive Order Mandating Gun Background Checks
Capitalizing on the October 1 shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that resulted in the deaths of 10 people, President Obama has tasked his aides with exploring...
Ben Carson Says Nazi Gun Control Facilitated Holocaust
During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on October 8, presidential candidate Ben Carson made a simple statement that defenders of the right to keep and bear arms have...
Gun-free Zones Contribute to Mass Slayings, Say Many Experts
In the aftermath of the October 1 shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, many of those calling for anti-gun measures such as universal background checks, gun registration,...
American IT Workers Complain of Losing Jobs to Foreign H-1B Visa Holders
American IT workers who have lost (or are about to lose) their jobs to foreign H-1B visa holders have started filing lawsuits against the offending employers, charging them with...
Snowden Offered to Make Plea Deal With U.S. Government, Including Prison Time
Speaking during an interview with the BBC conducted in Moscow on October 5, former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden said that he has offered to go to prison...
Illegal and Legal Immigrants Could Help Elect Clinton President
The concentration of noncitizen immigrants — both those here legally as well as those here illegally — in heavily Democratic states could help Hillary Clinton win enough electoral votes...
Industrialized Nations Halfway to $100 Billion UN “Climate Change Aid” Goal
Almost six years after then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States will help raise $100 billion annually by 2020 to assist poor countries in coping with “climate...
Obama Solicits Pledges for 40,000 UN “Peacekeeping” Troops
Speaking at a Leaders Summit on Peacekeeping held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, President Obama received pledges from more than...