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Government Cutting Assistance to Veterans to Fund Special Immigrant Visa Program Two years and $10 billion after the scandal that resulted in a solemn pledge from the government to remedy long waits by veterans in need of health care, wait times for care have gotten longer, not shorter. Now veterans are being forced to pay […]

Individuals living in New York City can choose from a minimum of 31 different gender identities, many of which allow them to fluctuate between some version or combination of male or female identities. Businesses that don’t respect and accommodate an individual’s chosen gender identity risk incurring six-figure fines under rules implemented by the city’s Commission on […]

President Barack Obama has named a transgender individual to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. According to the White House announcement about Barbara Satin’s appointment: Barbara Satin is the Assistant Faith Work Director for the National LGBTQ Task Force. She is an active member of the United Church of Christ and served on […]

IDOMENI, Greece — Greek authorities sent hundreds of police into the country’s largest informal refugee camp Tuesday to support the gradual evacuation of the Idomeni site on the Macedonian border. The left-led government has pledged that police will not use force, and says the operation is expected to last about a week to 10 days. […]

Red Tape Rising 2016: Obama Regs Top $100 Billion Annually By James L. Gattuso and Diane Katz The Obama Administration is responsible for an unparalleled expansion of the regulatory state, with the imposition of 229 major regulations since 2009 at a cost of $108 billion annually (using the regulatory agencies’ own numbers). The actual costs […]

All 529 Syrian refugees admitted to the US this month identified themselves as Muslim. More refugees have been received this May than any other month this fiscal year. The Obama administration pledged last September to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the 2016 Fiscal Year. Since October 1, 2015, 2,265 refugees have been placed in the […]

In an analysis of Monday’s meeting between Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, Vatican expert John L. Allen said that there is no Christian leader in the world today with a more credible claim to the title of a “friend of Islam.” Lining up the Pope’s credentials […]

Google’s search engine on Thursday honored an activist who once said she admired Osama bin Laden, while calling the United States the world’s “main terrorist.” The Google doodle featured a drawing of Yuri Kochiyama on what would have been her 95th birthday. READ MORE at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/google-honors-activist-admires/2016/05/19/id/729767/#ixzz49aCGuA5S

Report: Airline Workers Scrawled Graffiti on Doomed Flight: ‘We Will Bring This Plane Down’   The EgyptAir passenger jet that plunged into the Mediterranean Sea last week killing all 66 people on board was once vandalized by people at the airport in Cairo who scrawled threats to bring it down in graffiti on the side […]

A little known Swedish-Canadian oil and mining conglomerate human rights groups have repeatedly charged produces “blood minerals” is among the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donors, thanks to a $100 million pledge in 2007, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found. “Blood minerals” are related to “blood diamonds,” which are allegedly mined in war zones or […]