GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has failed to turn in the 10,000 signatures necessary to have his name appear on the Virginia GOP primary ballot. The state’s Republican Party tweeted on Friday evening, “After verification, RPV has determined that Newt Gingrich did not submit required 10k signatures and has not qualified for the VA primary.” [...]
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Rockefeller Concerned About Web Domain Expansion
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) is worried about a large expansion of internet domain names. “I’m concerned that this expansion of generic, top-level domains, if it proceeds as planned, will have adverse consequences for the millions of American consumers, companies, and non-profit organizations that use the Internet on a daily [...]
U.S. Enters Into New Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia
White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest issued the following statement regarding the U.S.’s decision to sell military aircraft and other arms to Saudi Arabia: “The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have signed a government-to-government agreement under the Foreign Military Sales program to provide advanced F-15SA combat aircraft to the Royal Saudi [...]
Obama Taps Two For Fed Board
President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he will be nominating Jerome Powell and Jeremy Stein for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Powell previously served as a Treasury official in George H. Bush administration. Stein is an Economics Professor at Harvard and served as a member of MIT’s finance faculty for a decade. “I am [...]
The Impacts Of Fukushima
Scientists are trying to figure why scores of seals have washed ashore in Alaska this year either dead or suffering from a mysterious disease. The seals have lesions, irritated skin, and hair loss – often symptoms of radiation poisoning – and scientists worry it might have come from the Fukushima plant in Japan. So far [...]
House Raises Questions Over Troop Deployment To Africa
By Adrianna McGinley Department of Defense and State officials faced stiff questions from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the deployment of roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa in an effort to train African forces to combat the Lord’s Resistance Army, a known terrorist group in the region. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State [...]
Iran May Have Missing Drone
Coalition forces announced Monday that they lost track of an unmanned aircraft late last week and that it may now be in Iran’s possession. The acknowledgement comes after Iran’s state-controlled television network claimed military forces in the country shot down and retrieved a U.S. spy drone. According to a brief statement released Monday by ISAF, [...]
Attorney Claims Bradley Manning Proceedings Biased
The attorney for Bradley Manning, the 23 year old Army private charged with providing secret documents to the whistleblower site WikiLeaks, sys that the military’s investigating officer needs to recuse herself from his client’s case. Lead Defense Counsel David Coombs claims that the officer, Army Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, works for the Justice Department and [...]
Obama And Maliki Prepare For “Equal Partnership”
With U.S. troops set to leave Iraq by month’s end, President Barack Obama pledged to maintain an ongoing, normalized relationship with the country during a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday. “This is the shared vision that Prime Minister Maliki and I reaffirmed today: an equal partnership, a broad relationship that [...]
Vote Fraud Is Real
President Obama’s U.S. Justice Department wants to invalidate South Carolina’s new voter ID law, but is ignoring Supreme Court decisions that support such laws. Liberals often claim that voter ID is unfair to minorities and that voting fraud isn’t a real problem anyway. Sadly, they use phony math when they claim that it’s discriminatory to [...]
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Apple CEO Defends Company’s Tax Record
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Enforcement Agents Condemn Obama’s Immigration Policies
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