Rand Paul Blocks Renewal of PATRIOT Act’s Expiring Powers; Battle Continues
The Senate battle for and against renewing expired parts of the PATRIOT Act — that the National Security Agency (NSA) has used to justify the collection of phone records...
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Obama Administration’s New EPA Rules Expand Control Over All Waterways
In a White House statement released on May 26, President Obama stated: “I called on the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clear up...
Report Says Hamas Tortured Israeli “Collaborators” and Fatah Members in Gaza
A report released on May 26 by Amnesty International said that Hamas — the more violent faction of the Palestinian National Authority that took control of Gaza from Fatah...
Appeals Court Lets Stand Injunction Against Obama Amnesty
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans decided on May 25 to let stand a February 16 injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Andrew...
U.S.-China War “Inevitable” If U.S. Continues Flights Over Claimed Islands
The Global Times, a newspaper owned by the Chinese Communist Party’s People's Daily, said in an editorial on May 25 that “U.S.-China war is inevitable in the South China...
McConnell Strategy Falters and Patriot Act Powers Likely to Expire
The dogged insistence of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on renewing the expiring portions of the PATRIOT Act intact has created a logjam in the Senate that will...
Voters in Ireland to Decide Fate of Same-sex “Marriage”
Voters in Ireland went to the polls on May 22 to decide a national referendum to change Ireland’s constitution to give homosexual couples the same right to marry as...
Obama: Coast Guard Has “Urgent Need” to Combat Climate Change
In his commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut on May 20, President Obama elaborated on "the challenge I want to focus on today...
NASA’s Own Data Discredits Its Predictions of Antarctic Doom
A NASA study released on May 14 claims that the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica is weakening quickly and will likely disintegrate completely in the next few years,...
Rand Paul Will Use Filibuster to Stop Patriot Act, if Necessary
During an interview with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on a New Day program that aired on May 19, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he will do “everything humanly possible” to...
Militias, Iraqi Government Try to Retake City From ISIS
After the Iraqi government’s security forces retreated from the city of Ramadi on May 17 — abandoning the important city of half a million people to the Islamic State...
McConnell Bill Would Extend PATRIOT Act Powers Through July
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on May 14 introduced a bill that would extend until July 31 — without changes — the expiring surveillance authorities of the PATRIOT Act. McConnell...
Rubio Promotes Interventionist Foreign Policy In Speech at the CFR
Speaking before the internationalist Council on Foreign Relations in New York on May 13, Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) defended “America’s role as a security guarantor” for...
L.A. County Ends Cooperation with ICE on Immigration Enforcement
On May 12, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to abolish a program known as 287(g) — which allows federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents...
Jeb Bush Would Not Rescind Obama’s Executive Amnesty if Elected President
During a recent interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said that — were he to be elected president — his first order of...
Putin and Xi Meeting in Moscow Reflects Increased Russian-Chinese Cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin sat side-by-side with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, as the leaders of two of the world’s most powerful nations...
Court Rules NSA Spying Is Illegal, but McConnell Defends Patriot Act’s Section 215
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York ruled on May 7 that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of U.S. call records is...
McConnell Delays Debate on Legislation, Tries to Save Complete Patriot Act
In a last-ditch bid to save the Patriot Act, which has been condemned by many members of Congress for its overreaching authorization of domestic spying in the name of...
Clinton Promotes “Full and Equal Path to Citizenship” for Illegal Aliens
Speaking in Las Vegas on May 5, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that her plan for immigration reform included a way to provide illegal aliens with a way to...
House Bill Introduced to Keep Marriage Cases Out of Federal Courts
As the Supreme Court considers how to rule on Obergefell v. Hodges — a case challenging marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, for which it heard oral...
