Officials at the NSA and the FBI told House lawmakers Tuesday that secret NSA spying has disrupted over 50 potential terror plots against the U.S. since 9/11.
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Special Forces Official Wary Of Integrating Women
Women make up about 14 percent of the 1.4 million active U.S. military personnel.
Democrats Call On Boehner To Set Aside Hastert Rule
“The Speaker of the House should be the Speaker of the American People not of one particular party.” Gutierrez said during a press conference outside the Capitol.
Cummings Releases Full IRS Transcript, Issa Hits Back
Issa issued a statement that he was “deeply disappointed” and that the transcript “will serve as a roadmap for IRS officials to navigate investigative interviews with Congress.”
Time To End ‘Government-By-Crisis’
Three years and 9,000 pages of legislation later, our economy has yet to see any benefits from the passing of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
Biden Tells Lawmakers They’ll Regret Voting Against Gun Control
The Vice President said Tuesday that Democrats are going to keep trying to pass expanded background check laws.
Colleges And The Court
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed that someday we all would be judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. The Supreme Court may rule that it’s time we put Dr. King’s goal into action.
For decades, colleges admitted minority students even when their grades and test scores were lower than everyone else’s. White students complain that now they’re being discriminated against.
Affirmative action plans were created, supposedly, as temporary measures to help groups who were historically disadvantaged. Now recent history has given them advantages for almost 50 years.
When the Supreme Court last considered race-based college admissions, they let it continue by a one-vote margin. But the makeup of the Court has changed, and now they’ve agreed to consider a case from Texas that may tell colleges it’s time they became color-blind.
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook.