Monthly Archives: May, 2013

TSA gets rid of full-body scanners at US airports

If they got rid of them, why did they cause all this controversy and humiliation for so many people in the first place?  Proves they weren’t needed.  The full body scanners that caused an uproar for taking semi-scandalous snapshots of fliers at security  checkpoints have been removed from America’s airports. This decision comes after congress …

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Falling healthcare costs drive improvement in U.S. budget outlook

The lower hospital cost and nursing costs improved the budget outlook for the U.S. government’s healthcare program for the elderly over the past year, but the fortunes of the Social Security pension program have changed little, the programs’ trustees said on Friday. But trustees reiterated their longstanding view that neither program can meet projected long-term …

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Tea Party Activists Rally Against ‘Obamacore’

Tea party groups have a new cause, and it is giving the movement a new sense of purpose.  These organizations are pushing Republican governors nationally to oppose Obama’s Common Core State Standards, getting many to pull back their support for a  bipartisan plan to overhaul public schools.  Government has no business butting into schools. “This …

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IRS Targeted Conservative Activists As Well as Groups

The IRS scandal continues to grow, as new information comes forth that the agency also targeted conservative activists.  New congressional investigations and federal lawsuits are likely to reveal more  about the extent and purpose of the targeting, beginning with a House Ways and  Means Committee hearing on Tuesday that will allow victims to testify for …

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Five year old takes cap gun to school, interrogated and suspended

Liberals should all be caged for their asinine way of thinking, and should be left there until they wet their pants.  In Maryland an 5 year old boy was interrogated until he wet himself and suspended for 10 days after school officials caught with playing with a “cowboy-style cap gun.  School officials interrogated the boy …

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New regulations could raise your insurance rates

To all the sheeple who voted for him, we told you so.  If you are a smoker, or are overweight, have high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, soon you could be forced to pay much higher premiums under Obamacare.  So he is dictating to us that we “have” to buy insurance, yet we are penalized …

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ObamaCare to trigger health insurance cancellation notices

New healthcare rules under Obamacare, may soon force a host of personal insurance plans being canceled as early as this fall, a  scenario expected to cause consumer confusion.   Under his healthcare overhaul, which wasn’t needed in the first place, those policies that cannot meet new insurance plan standards may be  discontinued. This means individuals, and …

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RNC seeks documents on Benghazi

The Republican National Committee  is seeking any emails and documents that might exist between the State  Department and President Obama’s re-election campaign about the deadly assault  last year in Benghazi, Libya. On Thursday, the RNC said it sent a request under the Freedom of Information Act for material between Sept. 11 —  the day of …

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Fox News, other media outlets refuse off-record meeting with Holder

Another thorn in Holder’s backside as Fox News has joined several other major media outlets Thursday in refusing to send a representative  to a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder on the department’s surveillance  of reporters if Holder continues to insist that the session be off the  record. What is Holder afraid of?  Why not …

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Nevada powerbroker convicted of making illegal contributions to Sen. Harry Reid

A former Nevada power broker was convicted Wednesday of making illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Sen.  Harry Reid.  A federal jury reached the verdict in the case against real estate developer and once powerful lobbyist Harvey Whittemore.  The verdict was unanymous on charges of making excessive campaign contributions, making contributions in  the name of another …

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