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Should The Universe Amaze Us Or Terrify Us?

Neil deGrasse Tyson suggests we should look to the universe as an opportunity for enlightenment, and put our egos aside, as we are only a small speck in its enormity. If you don’t see that, your ego is out of control. “In every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who [...]

Swedish Citizens Take to Streets to Defend Property From Rioting Immigrants

Group of Swedish vigilantes on night patrol May 24. (FriaTider) Immigrant rioting continued for the sixth night on Friday. FriaTider reported: Faced by another night of terror at the hands of predominantly immigrant rioters, Swedes grown tired of the police’s … Continue reading ?

Rubio Can't Defend His Own Immigration Bill

Senator Marco Rubio appeared on a special edition of the Hannity show last night on behalf of the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill, otherwise known as Schumer-Rubio. His case for the bill was unpersuasive and, at times, incoherent. You...Show More Summary

Mark Levin: Holder Lied Under Oath – “I Assume House Committee Will Charge Him With Perjury” (Audio)

On Friday’s Mark Levin Show: Mark talked about Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony to the Judiciary Committee regarding the Associated Press. Mark pointed out that Holder lied when he said he didn’t know about Justice targeting journalists. Now we know … Continue reading ?

Bloody Hell! M15 Offered Woolwich Terrorist a Job Six Months Ago

Islamist Michael Adebolajo butchered a British soldier in the street on Wednesday. British Secret Service M15 reportedly offered bloody killer Michael Adebolajo a job six months ago. The BBC reported, via Atlas Shrugs: MI5 asked Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo … Continue reading ?

Come Saturday Morning: ALEC-Backed “FACT” Act Confuses Harassment with “Transparency”

To sign a petition to Congress to stop this new version of FACT, go here: http://cancervictimsrights.org/legislation/fact-act/

This Week in God

First up from the God Machine this week is an unfortunate reaction from a prominent figure in the religious right movement to the deadly tornado in Oklahoma earlier this week. Just a couple of hours after the natural disaster, Fox News' Erick Erickson, with whom I nearly always d …

Obama Administration Planned on Monitoring James Rosen’s Email For Extended Period of Time

Barack Obama dropped this line on during his national security speech this week. “A free press is also essential for a democracy. That’s who we are. And, I’m troubled by the possibility that a leak investigations may chill investigative journalism … Continue reading ?

Fatster’s Roundup

? Here’s to a great-great-great-grandmother and all the others who perished on that long walk to Oklahoma which began 175 years ago today. The Trail of Tears, Nu na da ul tsun yi. ? “BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil have been namedShow More Summary

Death of an Empire: The UK Pays Terrorists $38k/yr… While Soldiers Earn Only $24k/yr

You get what you pay for. Anjem Choudary, a British-Pakistani, who lives on social welfare funds, supports Jihad, 9/11, and Islamic terrorism. He hates democracy, liberalism, secularism and demands Sharia in UK. Choudary tells his followers to take welfare to … Continue reading ?

Erdo?an's Maryland Mosque

A $100 million mosque under construction outside Washington, D.C. attracted a visit last week from Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Writer Ryan Mauro notes that Maryland Secretary of State John McDonough was on hand, along with representatives of two Islamist groups, for a ceremony at the mosque's construction site. Show More Summary

Good Grief. Obama Lectures Naval Academy Graduates on Sexual Assault in Commencement Speech

This was just weird. Barack Obama lectured the class of 2013 today on sexual abuse in his commencement speech at the US Naval Academy. CNN reported: A rash of sexual assaults in the armed forces undermines Americans’ confidence in the … Continue reading ?

GOP Senatorial Candidate Calls Lib Opponent “Pond Scum” Being Compared to Osama Bin Laden (Video)

Gomez is Not backing down– Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called opponent Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) “pond scum” during an interview on Thursday. This was after his opponent Ed Markey compared Gomez, a former Navy SEAL, to Osama … Continue reading ?

Ben Veghte: Rep. David Cicilline Is Right About Social Security, PolitiFact Was Wrong (Again)

PolitiFact's judgment of Rep. Cicilline's statement as "Mostly False" demonstrates a lack of understanding of Social Security that would preclude most journalists from presuming to judge the truth of others' statements on the issue.

Obama’s Attorney General Hypocrisy: Alberto Gonzalez vs Eric Holder

In 2007 when Barack Obama was running for President the first time there was a controversy raging over whether U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was right to accede to President Bush’s order to fire a handful of U.S. attorneys. Obama then criticized the AG for politicizing the office. Flash forward to 2013 and he’s now [...]

Republican Massacusetts Senate Candidate Calls Democratic Opponent ‘Pond Scum’

Republican Gabriel Gomez had these words for Ed Markey during an interview. Said Gomez: “I don’t think there’s anything more offensive. You know I’ve got four young kids, and they gotta sit there and gotta see an ad with their dad — who served honorably, talk to anybody I served with — whether as a [...]

Reality Bites… Union Leaders Discover They Were Lied to and Millions of Members Will Lose Health Insurance

Barack Obama repeatedly told the American public and his union supporters, “Nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change your coverage or your doctor.” What a joke. Now union leaders are stunned and upset after they … Continue reading ?

A Culture of Hooliganism… Obama Goons Threatened 10,000 GOP Donors With Legal Trouble for Donating to Republicans

In 2008 the American Issues Project released an ad tying Barack Obama to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. “Barack Obama launched his political career with the direct assistance of Bill Ayers.” The Obama camp used the DOJ to demand an investigation … Continue reading ?

McCain manages to surprise

There was an interesting argument on the Senate floor yesterday in which Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) debated Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on the budget process. McCaskill believes, as both parties used to agree, that there should be a conference committee to reconcile the House and S …

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