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According to news reports, the Obama administration is currently circulating a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to implement the commitments agreed to under the Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The expectation among other Security Council member states is that the U.S. will seek a vote on the resolution…
The House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing last week on “Promoting Opportunity for Disability Insurance Beneficiaries” to discuss, among other measures, a benefit-offset policy for Social Security disability payments. A benefit-offset policy is expected to increase the earnings and disposable income of disability program beneficiaries, while increasing program costs as the disability…
Two weeks ago, in a usurpation of the democratic process on par with Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court got marriage and the Constitution wrong. Its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges redefined marriage for the entire country. Nothing in the Constitution gives unelected judges the power to do so. But the court did it anyway, and now…
On Wednesday, two House committees announced they will begin an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s alleged harvesting and sale of body parts from unborn babies. In an undercover video released yesterday, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services at Planned Parenthood, detailed with startling calmness how she chooses to perform abortion procedures in order to…
Things went from bad to worse at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Thursday with the announcement that hackers stole the Social Security numbers and personal information of 21 million people in a massive cyber hack. This news comes on top of last month’s revelation that 4.2 million current and former federal employees had…
Tuesday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Little Sisters of the Poor in its challenge to the coercive Obamacare abortion drug mandate. Along with several other non-profit religious organizations, the Little Sisters challenged the Affordable Care Act requirement that it provide employees with health care coverage that includes contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs and…
Today the House will take up a short-term “patch” measure to shore up the Highway Trust Fund, which is set to dip below critical levels at the end of the month. The patch would keep the fund afloat through December by transferring $8.1 billion from the Treasury into the Highway Trust Fund. The measure is…
Despite being only six months into 2015, there have already been a slew of sometimes bizarre stories about voter fraud across the country. They show just how far some people will go to cheat the system. Here are a few of the most outlandish stories: 1. Madison County, Ga. Mohammad Shafiq of Madison County, Georgia,…
The Obama administration’s nuclear agreement with Iran has major flaws that could dangerously undermine the long-term national security interests of the United States and its allies. Although the administration entered the negotiations pledging to cut off all pathways to a nuclear weapon, the agreement amounts to little more than a diplomatic speed bump that will…
Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman on death row in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy, is severely ill. Bibi’s lawyers are calling for her transfer to a prison in Lahore where she will be closer to her family and have access to proper medical care. Blasphemy charges against Bibi are a miscarriage of justice and yet…
Imagine having a vision for your country. You worked hard to start an organization to promote the ideas and values that you believe can fix our nation. When you apply for tax-exempt status, which should be a simple matter of paperwork, you face repeated delays and demands from the government that stretch the process across…
Even now that the Supreme Court has redefined marriage, Americans who believe that marriage is union of husband and wife should be free to live and work in accord with their convictions. That’s a central theme of my new book, “Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom.” When he “evolved” on the issue…
The U.S. should be concerned about its lack of presence in the Arctic, according to one security expert. Speaking at the Wilson Center recently, Global Brief magazine founder Irvin Studin painted a picture of Arctic geostrategy in which “Russia is way ahead” of the U.S. in the region. Studin was referring to the Kremlin’s plans…
Months of Iranian pressure on the United States brought its fruition. Iran got a deal that legitimizes its nuclear program, rewards its defiance of international treaties and obligations, and provides it with additional billions of dollars to continue its terrorist activities in the Middle East. Here are the White House’s most egregious misinterpretations of the…
In less than 90 days, essentially all health care providers will be faced with the unfunded mandate of transitioning to what is called ICD-10 (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems). This is the latest and exponentially more complex version of the International Classification of Disease coding system. There is abundant evidence to…
Eurozone leaders pulled all-nighters in Brussels over the weekend to craft yet another last-minute reprieve for Greece—its third bailout deal in the last five years—that was announced this morning, but that country’s long-term economic problems remain. Before receiving an €86 billion euro loan package from the European institutions, the Greek parliament must approve further budget…
President Obama’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joe Dunford, startled members of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week when he called Russia the gravest potential “existential threat to the United States.” But countries along Russia’s borders know exactly what the general means. Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has launched an improbable,…
It’s that time of the year again: U.S. House Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is ramping up her efforts to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state in the Union. Her bill, which would create the state of New Columbia from the existing District of Columbia, is the latest in a long line of legislative proposals with the…
Obama’s Department of Justice may have been involved in the IRS scheme to target conservative non-profit organizations, according to newly-released documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents reveal that Lois Lerner met with attorneys from the Public Integrity Section (including its chief) of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and…
Then you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8:32 Over the past twenty years I have taken part in acts of remembrance for the 37 victims of the July 13, 1994, “13 de marzo” tugboat massacre and over the past 19 years for the four victims of the February 24, 1996,…