Month: May 2013

Second Amendment Test or Horrible Idea? Activist Calls for Armed Protesters to March on Washington, D.CActivist and talk radio host Adam Kokesh in a Facebook post last week called on his listeners to join him on July 4 to march on Washington, D.C., with loaded guns. More than 1,500 people have responded to say they

Drumming Morality out of the Military…

America’s Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Guardsmen, and Marines are lab rats in Mr. Obama’s radical social experiment. Read the following, and then ask yourself, “When they get done, will there be anyone left in the military who will refuse to serve under foreign commanders, refuse to go house to house confiscating private property, refuse to detain

School’s track team disqualified for religious gesture

May 6, 2013 COLUMBUS, Texas — A teenage athlete’s gesture toward heaven got his school’s track team disqualified and ignited a debate over expressions of religious freedom in Texas. The Star Telegram reports Derrick Hayes, a junior at Columbus High School in Columbus, Texas, was anchoring the 400-meter relay team and was several yards ahead of his

Obama has a sweet retirement deal. Will you?

By Allan Sloan,May 02, 2013 President Obama’s proposal to limit the value of 401(k)s, pensions and other tax-favored retirement accounts to about $3.4 million certainly sounds reasonable. After all, at a time of big budget deficits, we shouldn’t subsidize “the rich” with tax breaks, should we? But when you look a little closer — especially

Rear Admiral Says Religious Liberty Under Threat in Military

A high-ranking Coast Guard official said at a National Day of Prayer gathering that religious liberty in the U.S. military is being threatened and that service members are being told to hide their faith in Christ, according to a videotape obtained by Fox News. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/rear-admiral-says-religious-liberty-under-threat-in-military.html “The problem that men and women like me face in

Pentagon Blocks Access to Southern Baptist Website

The U.S. Military has blocked access to the Southern Baptist Convention’s website on an unknown number of military bases because it contains “hostile content” — just weeks after an Army briefing labeled Evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics as examples of religious extremism, Fox News has learned. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/military-blocks-access-to-southern-baptist-website.html

Florida schoolgirl charged with felonies for science experiment

DALLAS, May 1st, 2013 – The case of 16-year old student Kiera Wilmot is making the rounds today, and for good reason.  As Reason Magazine and WTSP.com in Florida report, “Meet Kiera Wilmot is a 16-year-old student in Bartow, Florida. Before last week, Bartow High School Principal Ron Pritchard told WTSP-TV, she had “never been in trouble before. Ever.” Curious

Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratoryExperts warn of danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people. …Senior scientists have criticised the “appalling irresponsibility” of researchers in

The law enforcement agency you’ve probably never heard of

Although little-known, HSI’s roughly 6,000 agents form the second-largest law enforcement agency in the country, following the FBI’s 10,000. They enforce about 600 laws, their jurisdiction primarily aimed at anything illegally crossing borders — including money laundering, human trafficking, United States technology or child pornography. “We’ve been a team since 1990 and we’ve never been

Gov. Brown OKs funds to confiscate guns from criminals, mentally illGov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at taking handguns and assault rifles away from 20,000 Californians who acquired them legally but have since been disqualified from ownership because of a criminal conviction or serious mental illness. The measure, the first of several gun-related