Russia’s Minister of Labor Social Protection Maxim Topilin told the Moscow Times on Wednesday that the country’s birth rate has increased 30 percent since 2007. Topilin said in an interview that the increase was due to “maternity capital” on January 1, 2007.
As cities across the U.S. face police shortages and violent crime rebounds, some communities have begun to police themselves through other means. One such watch group was created in a neighborhood in Milwaukee, Oregon and calls itself a “Glock Block.”KOIN News reports: “We’re starting
General Carter Ham is scheduled to testify to the House Armed Services Committee on June 26 at a classified briefing about his knowledge of events that took place when the attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi,
The CIA is gearing up to send weapons to rebel groups in Syria through Turkey and Jordan, the Washington Post reported on Friday. This is an expanded program over the effort during the past year to maintain supply routes into
J. Christian Adams, an election lawyer who served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, is calling the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision a “nothing burger.” : The Supreme Court decision today means almost nothing. The court ruled
Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), two lawmakers who are part of the gang of eight immigration bill, are unaware of the administration’s willingness to accept thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States. Rubio, a member of
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke to Breitbart News at length on Tuesday following the passage of the cloture vote for the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill in the upper chamber. Breitbart News: The bill would allow most of the nation’s
The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country’s ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports. A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other
The College Republican National Committee released a 95 page report of polling and focus groups recently showing the Republican Party lost young voters in the 2012 elections. A “dismal present situation,” the report states. The study is being used to show
The Tea Party Patriots are calling on anyone who was targeted by the IRS for their political beliefs to participate in a rally at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on June 19 to demand an audit of the Internal Revenue
The State Department sent a document dump of 97 pages to the House Congressional Oversight Committee late Friday night relating to Ambassador Susan Rice’s five Sunday television appearances last September, in which she falsely blamed the deadly attacks on the
New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie named New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa as the state’s new interim senator. Chiesa will fill the seat of the late Frank Lautenberg until residents elect a new Senator in a special election in October. Chiesa
General Motors launched a cross country campaign with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday promoting “free enterprise.” GM will provide a 2013 Chevy Traverse for two “Tour Guides,” writer Joe Epstein and Huffington Post reporter Nate Hindman, to travel to over
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) criticized six witnesses who were targeted for their conservative political beliefs by the IRS at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Tuesday. McDermott called the Committee’s IRS investigation “political theater,” saying, “The mistake here
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) questioned acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Daniel Werfel at the Committee’s hearing on Monday regarding the $92 million in bonuses IRS employees received over the last three years. “Sarah Hall Ingram, Former Commissioner
In addition to leaving Inspector General posts at key agencies vacant, a March 5 report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform claims the Obama administration has ignored 16,906 recommendations from 73 agency OIG’s that could potentially save taxpayers $67 billion
While the Obama Administration scrambles to respond to a host of multi-agency scandals, five cabinet level agencies are still without Inspector Generals. These agencies are the Departments of State, Interior, Labor, Defense, and Homeland Security. The National Endowment for the Humanities
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R – MN) announced early Wednesday morning she will be retiring next year. Bachmann pointed out that her decision to not run for re-election had nothing to do with the current ethics probe into her former presidential
A British prison guard almost faced the same fate as a soldier in London who was beheaded, when Parviz Khan, an inmate serving life for serving life for plotting to behead a Muslim member of the Army – and thought
The Tomb of the Unknowns is located in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and is a monument dedicated to American military members who died without their remains being identified. According to CNN : The tomb guards are soldiers of the
Former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 GOP Presidential nominee Bob Dole excoriated the Republican Party on Fox News Sunday, saying the Party lacked new ideas and engaged in too much obstructionist activity in the upper chamber. “They ought to put
President Barack Obama called on Congress to take action, so Guantamo terrorist detainees can be transferred to the United States at a designated detention site in the country, where military trials and commissions can take place. “There is no justification beyond
An obscure November 2012 Wikileaks email dump points to former White House counterterrorism adviser and now-CIA chief John Brennan as the person behind the “witch hunt” of journalists who reported unflattering Obama administration leaks. A little over a week after
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday he believes Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s Director of the Exempt Organizations division, should lose her job over her participation in
Michael Steinbach, former head of the FBI’s counterterrorism division and now special agent in charge of Miami, told over 30 congressional staffers in March of 2012 that, contrary to the White House’s classification, the bureau does not refer to the
FULL VIDEO HERE In the midst of government investigations, subpoenas, and hearings relating to last September’s deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been laying relatively
Questions remain as to whether Steven T. Miller resigned from his position as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service or if the Obama administration forced him out as a result of the controversy surrounding the agency’s targeting of tea party
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General released a report on Thursday that the House Judiciary Committee said showed a “systemic mismanagement in the handling of known or suspected terrorists admitted into the federal Witness Security (WITSEC) Program.”
More conservative organizations and individuals have emerged to tell their stories of tax troubles after revelations surfaced that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative organizations unjustly. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R – OH) stated at the weekly GOP
Former George W. Bush Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on Mike Huckabee’s radio show on Tuesday and discussed his new book, Rumsfeld’s Rules. He was critical of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for making remarks during her January
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, ended the Benghazi attack hearing on Wednesday by stating, “This hearing is closed. But this investigation is not over,” indicating more whistle blower Benghazi hearings are likely due in the
