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Clinton ‘delighted’ State aide granted immunity

Published March 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton said she was “delighted” to learn this week that the State Department aide who set up her private email server had been granted immunity by the Justice Department. The former secretary of state told CBS News she viewed Bryan Pagliano’s cooperation with the FBI investigation as reason to believe “we’ll be moving toward […]

Immigration costs, benefits unclear as immigrants near record share of U.S. population

Published March 7, 2016

Immigration costs, benefits unclear as immigrants near record share of U.S. population Immigrant families account for 61 million people in the U.S., according to research released Monday that raises questions about the extent to which immigration affects everything from schools to congested cities to the future of Social Security. The level marks a staggering increase […]

Navy Changes Body Fat Rules To Allow Obese Male, Female Sailors To Stay In

Published March 7, 2016

So many sailors are getting kicked out of the Navy for failing to pass fitness tests that the service has decided to expand allowable body fat rules to accommodate the obese. The Navy officially changed body fat regulations in January and is now extending a hand to sailors who have flunked fitness tests three or […]

Audit: Feds Approved Benefits to Kids With Fake Disabilities

Published March 7, 2016

The Social Security Administration approved disability payments to children with fake disabilities, giving families over $700 each month per child. The agency’s inspector general said families receiving cash benefits for multiple children raise red flags for fraud, identifying one case where a man was able to receive $77,000 a year in benefits claiming disabilities for […]

Eight States Where The 2nd Amendment Is Your Concealed Carry Permit

Published March 7, 2016

There are now eight states in America where no permit is required in order to carry a concealed handgun on one’s person for self-defense, after West Virginia legislators overrode Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s (D) veto of a permitless carry law. The West Virginia House overrode Tomblin’s veto on March 4 and the West Virginia Senate […]

Lawmakers Pass Proposal to Ban Donald Trump from Entering Mexico

Published March 7, 2016

Legislators in Mexico City passed a proposal on Thursday to bar presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering the country. Though the proposal amounts to a tellingly symbolic gesture, the lawmakers hope the measure will pressure Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to take a more adamant stand against Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric — including his blanket characterization […]

The College That Wants to Ban ‘History’

Published March 7, 2016

The history department might someday become the hxstory department, if the students in the Assembly for Power and Liberation have their way. Students at Western Washington University have reached a turning point in their campus’s hxstory. (For one thing, they’re now spelling it with an X—more on that later.) Activists are demanding the creation of […]

U.S. Supreme Court sides with lesbian over parental rights

Published March 7, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned an Alabama judicial ruling that refused to recognize a gay woman’s parental rights over three children she adopted with her lesbian partner and raised from birth. The court took the relatively unusual step of reversing the Alabama Supreme Court without hearing oral argument. Cases are decided in that […]

NBC Reporter Tips Off Hillary Spokeswoman To Interview Questions Before Live Segment [VIDEO]

Published March 7, 2016

After Sunday’s Democratic debate, NBC News reporter Kristen Welker tipped Hillary Clinton’s communications director Jen Palmieri off to the questions before conducting an interview in the spin room. As host Ari Melber finished his interview with Bernie Sanders’ senior adviser Tad Devine, the MSNBC shot cut to Welker, and she is heard telling Palmieri, “And […]

Poll: Less Than One Third Of Women Identify As ‘Feminist’

Published March 7, 2016

A new survey has found that most women reject the label “feminist” because they find it to be too extreme and sexist AGAINST men. The poll, undertaken by YouGov, reveals that while 32 percent of women identify themselves as feminists, 45 percent reject the term. more at Source: Poll: Less Than One Third Of Women […]

Top US commander: Russia wants to ‘rewrite’ international order

Published March 7, 2016

The era of trying to work with Russia is over, the top U.S. commander in Europe said Thursday while arguing for the rebuilding of U.S. forces in that region. “Russia does not want to challenge the agreed rules of the international order,” Gen. Philip Breedlove told the House Armed Services Committee. “It wants to rewrite […]

Why We Chose to Homeschool

Published March 7, 2016

Before we adopted our first child, I had never heard of homeschooling. We assumed any child of ours would have the typical public school experience. But when our daughter was born, I went from being completely immersed in my career as an attorney to being completely smitten with this beautiful little girl. It became more […]

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