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on June 18, 2013 in World News

HuffPo High-Schooler with Lesbian Moms Feels Left Out of Father’s Day

Abby Bergman has an ax to grind. An LGBT activist “all her life,” according  to her bio, the high  school junior is also the daughter of a lesbian couple, and as a result …  thinks we should chuck Father’s Day out the window. Bergman just wrote a Father’s Day piece (read, an anti-Father’s Day piece)  for the Huffington Post called “Celebrating Father’s Day  With Two Moms,” in which she whined that the traditional holiday was not  quite inclusive enough. Although nothing stopped her from honoring “all the  typical ‘father things’ that my moms do for me every day,” Bergman still managed  to gripe. She  began… View Article

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on June 18, 2013 in World News

National Media Skip Over Charges U.S. Ambassador Abused ‘Minor Children’

There has been a rash of stories about U.S. State Department employees taking  drugs and cavorting with prostitutes. In addition, the Ambassador to Belgium,  Howard Gutman, was accused of soliciting prostitutes and minor children. While  all of these alleged crimes are reprehensible, the Catholic League only has  interest in the charge that Gutman “routinely ditched his protective security  detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and  minor children.” (My italics.)   No media outlet was more  outraged over minors being molested by priests than the Boston Globe, but it has  shown no interest in this story; it… View Article

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on June 17, 2013 in World News

White House defends high bills for Africa trip

The White House Friday defended  the first  family’s  upcoming weeklong trip to Africa, which could cost  taxpayers up to  $100  million, as “great bang for our buck.” “There  will be a great bang for our buck for being in Africa  because when  you  travel to regions like Africa that don’t get a lot of  presidential   attention, you tend to have very longstanding and  long-running impact  from the  visit,” said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national   security adviser to  President Obama. The Obamas’ trip, at a time of “sequestration” budget cuts, will  take them  to Senegal, Tanzania and South  Africa from June… View Article

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on June 17, 2013 in World News

Facebook got 10,000 requests for data from NSA in just six months (and Microsoft received 7,000 orders)

Facebook and Microsoft were able to reveal  limited information on Friday night about the government orders they have  received to turn over user data to security agencies. Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s general counsel, said  in a statement that they had between 9,000 and 10,000 requests from all  government entities, from local to federal, in the last six months of  2012. The orders involved the accounts of between  18,000 and 19,000 Facebook users on a broad range of surveillance topics, from  missing children to terrorism. Microsoft said they had between 6,000 and 7,000 orders, affecting between  31,000 and  32,000 accounts, but downplayed… View Article

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on June 16, 2013 in World News

US companies handing over personal data to NSA

A new report  has revealed that thousands of U.S. companies have been handing over personal  information of American citizens to the National Security Agency.   Bloomberg  reported on Saturday that four people familiar with the process said  “technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S.  national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return  receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence.”   The shocking  report came after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden disclosed that the agency  is collecting millions of Americans’ phone records and the computer  communications of foreigners from Google and other Internet  companies.   The… View Article

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on June 16, 2013 in World News

NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed “simply based on an analyst deciding that.” If the NSA wants “to listen to the phone,” an analyst’s decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. “I was rather startled,” said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on… View Article

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on June 14, 2013 in World News

Rick Perry to Meet, Recruit CT and NY Gun Manufacturers to Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) will be in Connecticut June 17 to meet with firearm manufacturers who find their businesses penalized and hampered by the new gun control laws enacted by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (D) on April 4. Perry will also meet with some firearm manufactures in New York whose businesses face new regulations under the gun control laws Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed in January. Connecticut-based firearm companies include Colt, Ruger, Mossberg, and Stag Arms. Of these, Mossberg already sent a letter to Connecticut Gov. Malloy, voicing their disapproval of the anti-gun climate in the state. In the… View Article

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on June 14, 2013 in World News

Pro-Gun Republican Wins CT District for First Time in 40 Years

Although Democrats and progressives have claimed politicians who oppose gun control will lose their offices at the hands of angry, pro-gun control Americans in coming elections, a pro-gun Republican just won in Connecticut. It is the first time a Republican has held the seat in 40 years. Samuel Belsito won the Connecticut State Legislature’s 53rd District in a special election to replace Democrat representative Bryan Hurlburt. Belsito’s election runs 100% counter to the argument that pro-gun positions will hurt politicians. For example, Belsito won although he made it clear he would have opposed the recent body of gun control legislation… View Article

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on June 13, 2013 in World News

Troops ‘targeted by NSA for anti-Obama views’

The NSA is systematically monitoring the Internet posts and telephone  conversations of U.S. military returning from Afghanistan, according to a  civil-liberties attorney. “The FBI and the Secret Service are showing up to request an interview to  question specific Internet posts the veteran has placed on websites such as  Facebook,” explained attorney John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford  Institute. Whitehead said the agencies are looking for “anti-Obama views that can be  interpreted to reflect psychological problems of sufficient seriousness to  disqualify the veteran from ever owning a firearm.” Whitehead told WND credible sources within the National Security Agency have  told him… View Article

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on June 13, 2013 in World News

Caller phoned 999 to tell police his prostitute was ugly

A MAN dialled 999 to complain to police that a  prostitute was UGLY after  meeting her outside a hotel. The caller told West Midlands Police he wanted “to report her for breaching  the Sale of Goods Act”. But an officer in the call centre at Solihull, Birmingham, responded by  telling the man the woman had not committed any offences and explained to  him  that soliciting for sex was illegal. The force has now sent the man a letter warning him about wasting police  time. A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: “A 999 call was received by police  at around… View Article

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