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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Pentagon’s F-35 stealth jet can’t win dogfight – report

Pentagon’s F-35 stealth jet can’t win dogfight – report A mock air battle between an F-16 jet and the military’s new and oft-troubled F-35 stealth jet showed that the F-35 is too sluggish to hit an enemy plane or dodge gunfire, according to a report. The F-35 has cost the US military more than a trillion dollars since work on it began, making it the most expensive weapon in history. The mock air battle, staged in January over the Pacific Ocean, was to test the F-35’s prowess as a close-range dogfighter at 10,000 to 30,000 feet. The F-35 pilot was… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Undocumented sex offenders left in Seattle-area neighborhoods without tracking

Undocumented sex offenders left in Seattle-area neighborhoods without tracking After digging through hundreds of ZIP codes, KIRO 7 found 11 convicted sex offenders in the country illegally living across western Washington neighborhoods. The government has tried to deport most of these people, but a Supreme Court ruling requires they be released after six months in jail, if their home country won’t take them back. >> PHOTOS: Most wanted sex offenders in Washington (updated June 4) KIRO 7 obtained sources through the Senate Judiciary Committee: a list of every ZIP code in the country that some offender called home at the time of release. In the Seattle area, sex offenders… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

North Carolina officials round-up 30 MS-13 gang members over crime spree

North Carolina officials round-up 30 MS-13 gang members over crime spree A judge will decide Tuesday if an alleged MS-13 gang member will stay behind bars. Oscar Trejo is in the Mecklenburg County Jail on federal charges. He’s one of 37 alleged gang members indicted in May. PHOTOS: Feds indict 37 suspected MS-13 gang members in roundup On Monday, Fec Rodriguez-Vareal pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy as part of a plea deal. Authorities say the members were involved in the murders of four men. The suspected members were rounded up last month. The charges against them range from murder… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Obama Issues 19 Classified Directives Changing Laws Passed by Congress

Obama Issues 19 Classified Directives Changing Laws Passed by Congress Written by  Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.” — Lord Acton Since being inaugurated in 2009, President Barack Obama has issued 30 Presidential Policy Directives (PPD), 19 of which he has ordered to be kept secret from Congres and the American people. Barack Obama campaigned for president promising to usher in an era of transparency in government. That promise stands next to “if you like your doctor you can keep… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Supreme Court Is ‘Inventing Federal Rights’

Rep. Marsha Blackburn: Supreme Court Is ‘Inventing Federal Rights’ The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Obamacare last week was essentially the court saying, “we are making a ruling not on a reading of the law, but we are making a ruling on what we interpret should have been congressional impact,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on the Breitbart News Saturday radio program. Blackburn indicated that the court interpreted something out of the law that didn’t actually exist, after some states refused to participate in state exchanges. Marlow referenced Justice Roberts’s “absurd” argument, which essentially said the… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

‘Gay Is Not the New Black,’ Says Texas Pastor

‘Gay Is Not the New Black,’ Says Texas Pastor by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D Black Christian leaders are continuing to vocalize their opposition to having same-sex marriage compared to the civil rights movement, which fought to overcome racial segregation and discrimination against blacks in America. In a new video, Texas pastor Voddie Baucham rejects the claim that “gay is the new black,” underscoring the significant differences between race and sexual orientation. Baucham posted the video the day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees same-sex marriage across the country, an outcome that President Barack Obama hailed as… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

New York, New Jersey Ranked as the Two Least Patriotic States

New York, New Jersey Ranked as the Two Least Patriotic States by Warner Todd Huston A new WalletHub study released just ahead of the Independence Day holiday weekend finds that New York ranks as the worst among the bottom ten least patriotic states. The study uses “civic engagement,” such as voting rates, and “military engagement,” including how many citizens have joined the military, to determine where the states rank on the patriotism scale. The most patriotic states in this measurement are Virginia, Washington state, Colorado, Idaho and Alaska. The top ten most patriotic states are rounded out with Maine, North… View Article

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on June 29, 2015 in World News

US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico has more

US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico has more The United States is now the world’s second largest Spanish-speaking country after Mexico, according to a new study published by the prestigious Instituto Cervantes. The report says there are 41 million native Spanish speakers in the US plus a further 11.6 million who are bilingual, mainly the children of Spanish-speaking immigrants. This puts the US ahead of Colombia (48 million) and Spain (46 million) and second only to Mexico (121 million). Among the sources cited in the report is the US Census Office which estimates that the… View Article

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on June 29, 2015 in World News

State Department Ejects Free Beacon Reporter from Briefing

State Department Ejects Free Beacon Reporter from Briefing Reporter threatened at briefing detailing Obama admin concessions to Iran BY: Adam Kredo Officials with the Department of State threatened to call security Monday on a Washington Free Beacon reporter who was attempting to report on a briefing held by senior Obama administration figures in Vienna on the eve of an expected nuclear agreement with Iran. Two State Department officials booted the Free Beacon from a room where Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, was talking to reporters, despite the Free Beacon’s being credentialed by the Austrian government for the ongoing… View Article

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