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Unholy Alliance: Christian Charities Profit from $1 Billion Fed Program to Resettle Refugees, 40 Percent Muslim

Though they are officially “non-profit” organizations, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services, and several other Christian organizations are profiting from lucrative contracts with the federal government to resettle refugees in the United States. Of the 100,000 refugees resettled in the United States in 2014 under the Refugee Resettlement program, an estimated 40 percent were Muslims.

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CNN’s New Trump Slam Not Supported by Its Own Video

CNN claims “several attendees” at a Trump campaign event in Birmingham, Alabama “punched and kicked a protester who tried to disrupt Trump’s speech.” Video evidence, however, doesn’t back up that claim.

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Facebook Restores Carol Swain Account After Breitbart Exposes Block

“What they did was they blocked me and said for 21 hours I would not be able to post and at that point I contacted as many people as I could to tell them that Facebook was preventing me, they had blocked me from using my page and my friends started this campaign and somehow it reached Breitbart,” Carol Swain noted.

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Breitbart News Daily: Eagle Forum’s Ed Martin Blasts GOP ‘Surrender Congress’

Ed Martin, the former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party and now president of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, is blasting what he calls the GOP’s “Surrender Congress” for its failure to resist President Obama’s far left agenda, particularly his current plans to continue the flow of unvetted Syrian refugees to the United States.

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After Paris Attacks: ‘Concealed Carry Permit Holders Have a Duty to Be Armed’

LEBANON, Tennessee—In the aftermath of the barbaric murders of more than 120 unarmed innocent civilians in Paris, France by several well-armed Syrian Muslim terrorists on Friday, the 12.8 million gun owners in America with concealed carry permits now have a new civic responsibility, according to Nashville talk radio host Ralph Bristol.

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Tennessee Grand Jury Indicts IRS Agent On Felony Sexual Battery Charges

IRS agent Samuel Garza is facing felony charges of sexual battery. A Williamson County Tennessee grand jury has indicted Garza, who was arrested on September 3 while caught on video during an IRS audit he was conducting of a convenience store owned by a woman in Fairview, Tennessee.

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Investigation Questions Jump In Nashville Public School Test Scores

An investigation is raising questions about the integrity of Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools test scores that showed proficiency levels among its students in grade 9 through 12 who took Algebra I doubled from 28 percent in 2010 to 56 percent in 2015.

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Dr. Ben Carson’s John Paul Jones Moment: ‘There’s No Give Up Here’

“Your message to your followers and even the people who on the Republican establishment side who oppose you is that, like John Paul Jones, you have not yet begun to fight ?” Breitbart News Executive Chairmain Steve Bannon, a former naval officer, asked Carson on Sirius XM Radio’s Breitbart News Saturday.

The Facts About Dr. Ben Carson and Mannatech

As Dr. Ben Carson moves up in the polls, reporters across the political spectrum are zeroing in on his relationship with Mannatech, a Texas based food supplement company. But so far the discussion has generated more heat than light.

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FEC Filings: Jeb Bush Finance Director May Have Made $1.3 Million Off Of Campaign

A senior finance staffer for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign, who also runs a firm that has received payments from the pro-Bush Super PAC Right to Rise USA, may have been paid more than a million dollars so far in 2015, either directly or through companies she owns or has an ownership interest in, off of Jeb’s effort to become the third member of the Bush family elected president of the United States.

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Interior Department Blames EPA for Colorado Toxic Waste Spill

An Interior Department investigation into the 3 million gallon toxic waste spill that turned Colorado’s Animas River orange in August places the blame squarely on the Environmental Protection Agency. Sources tell Breitbart News that the report may be the opening shot in a potential budget battle between the Department of the Interior and the EPA.

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Parents Dispute Tennessee School Board Member Claim ‘Absolutely Nothing Wrong’ With Islam-Centric Textbook

At a town hall gathering of the White County Citizens Against Islamic Indoctrination in Sparta, Tennessee, they heard a presentation by Usama Dakdok (an Egyptian Christian who immigrated to the United States) that documented in excruciating detail the historical inaccuracies found in the seventh grade Social Studies textbook myWorld History and Geography: The Middle Ages to Exploration of the Americas, approved last August for use by the White County School Board.

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Tennessee 7th Grade Standards Promote Islam, Downplay Christianity

A Breitbart News investigation reveals that the current seventh grade Social Studies standards, developed in 2013 by a group of ten Tennessee educators led by 30-year-old Jared Myracle (author of Common Core for Parents for Dummies), and adopted by the State of Tennessee for public schools for the 2014-2015 academic year, do, in fact, promote Islam and downplay Christianity. This assessment is based upon a review of the 75 learning objectives specified in the standards.

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Study: Governments More Likely to Break Environmental Law Than Private Firms

Two professors of public policy conclude that governments are more likely to violate environmental law than private owners. “Publicly-owned facilities are more likely than similar privately-owned facilities to violate regulatory requirements under the CAA [Clean Air Act] and the SDWA [Safe Drinking Water Act],” as their recent study notes.

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Marsha Blackburn Leaves Door Ajar For Speaker Bid If Paul Ryan Passes

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is playing a long game when it comes to a potential Speakership bid. Meanwhile, amid House GOP conference chaos the establishment-backed House Ways and Means Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), continues to play Hamlet on his own potential bid.

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Nashville Talk Radio Host: ‘War Has Come to America’

FRANKLIN, Tennessee—“War has come to America,” Nashville talk radio host Ralph Bristol told the crowd at the fourth stop of his “Second Amendment is Homeland Security” tour event in this Tennessee city, one week after it played host to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who delivered a ringing defense of the gun rights at his own rally.

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