Month: June 2013

Federal nullification efforts mounting in statesThe Missouri legislation is perhaps the most extreme example of a states’ rights movement that has been spreading across the nation. States are increasingly adopting laws that purport to nullify federal laws — setting up intentional legal conflicts, directing local police not to enforce federal laws and, in rare cases,

Government could use metadata to map your every move If you tweet a picture from your living room using your smartphone, you’re sharing far more than your new hairdo or the color of the wallpaper. You’re potentially revealing the exact coordinates of your house to anyone on the Internet. The GPS location information embedded in

Why Is a Rare Carved Column From ‘Biblical Times’ Being Kept Quiet?Earlier this year, a tour guide discovered a carved column in the old city of Jerusalem, but little has been reported about the treasure that experts say dates back to biblical time and could actually be part of a whole temple or place buried

Islamic Forced Conversions – Past And PresentThe lost history of Christians forced to convert to Islam—or die—is reemerging, figuratively and literally. According to the BBC: “Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony [last Sunday] at the Vatican—a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman

US cuts military aid to Israel by five percentThe US will cut five percent, or $175 million, from its annual military aid package to Israel as part of across-the-board budgetary spending cuts, a Hebrew daily reported Friday.  Israel, the only true free democracy and our only ally in the middle east, and we cut aide

World Health Organisation calls emergency meeting to respond to SARS-like outbreak Amid fears of a new pandemic more deadly than Sars, 80 officials and doctors, including two from Britain, gathered in Cairo yesterday to examine ways of tackling Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, dubbed MERS. The coronavirus is casting a shadow over the annual Muslim pilgrimages

Brazil demonstrators promise biggest protests yetHundreds of thousands of demonstrators — angry about political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament — are expected on the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi, Belo Horizonte, Sao Sebastiao and other cities. Organizers vowed to

Obama: Catholic Schools ‘Encourage Division’Obama wasn’t kidding in March of 2012 when he told then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” after the election. We got a chilling look at what Obama meant by that during a speech in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit when he declared religious schools divisive: