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Conservative lawmakers could pledge to support Britain leaving the European Union, irrespective of what powers are returned to London from Brussels, The Independent reports. The report underlines the growing pressure facing Prime Minister David Cameron as he contends with the

In the nearly five years since Citizens United v. FEC was decided, more Americans than ever are exercising their First Amendment rights and engaging in political speech. The results are in: political speech and spending are up. While spending is

The following text is from Douglas Carswell MP’s website TalkCarswell.com and is the full text of the speech he delivered yesterday, announcing his defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP: I’m today leaving the Conservative party and joining UKIP. This

On Thursday, after admitting that he “didn’t get it right” when he suspended Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for just two games for domestic violence, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell informed owners that NFL players and personnel will now be

Prime Minister David Cameron and Home Secretary Teresa May face embarrassment today as independent figures revealed that Britain’s net migration has jumped from 175,000 to 243,000 over the past year. The jump, despite a pledge by the Conservative Party to

DALLAS, Texas — Every kid imagines a school without test scores, grades, or even deadlines. Now, the Denton Independent School District (ISD) located north of Dallas is bringing that dream to life through a new grading policy that’s guaranteed to

Spain would veto any attempt by a newly-independent Scotland to join the European Union as it would encourage its own separatist movements, according to former senior EU official. Ruairi Quinn, an Irish politician who was head of the EU’s Economic

In a turn around of previous fortunes, pro-independence Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond won tonight’s debate on the Scottish referendum. With just 23 days until Scotland goes to the polls, the result could have a startling impact on the end

On August 23, 2014, a paid ad/open letter appeared in the New York Times taking Elie Wiesel to task for playing the “Holocaust trump” card and for trying to “justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the

In polite society, the correct opinion to hold about Scottish independence is that the Union must stay together. But I’ve been wondering: might not England thrive, freed from the yoke of those whining, kilted leeches? The more you think about

ISLAY, Scotland (AP) — Carl Reavey plunged his nose into the glass, inhaled the amber liquid’s scent, then sipped. Slowly. It’s said that Scotch tastes of the place where it is made, so Reavey’s Bruichladdich Black Art single malt would

The severe California drought is prompting farmers and vintners to hire dowsers, AKA “water witches,” to locate water underground, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The harshness of the drought has cut the normal quantity of water delivered to farmers,

DALLAS, Texas — “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is the quintessential question every parent, grandparent, and teacher has ever asked to their youngsters on the very first day of school. It is also a question

Saturday in his weekly address, President Barack Obama urged Congress to renew the Export-Import Bank charter which expires at the end of the fiscal year this September. Transcript as follows: Hi, everybody. Nearly six years after the worst financial crisis of our

A new poll by Insider Advantage/Opinion Savvy Survey shows that Republican David Perdue leads Democrat Michelle Nunn by 7 points, 47% to 40%, but Libertarian Party candidate Amanda Swafford’s 8% could force a runoff between Perdue and Nunn after the November general election. 

According to free market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) if Scotland goes independent it would have to continue to use the pound unofficially and without the permission of the Bank of England (BoE). As the Westminster parties and the

AUSTIN, Texas — Yesterday on his Facebook page, Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), posted an announcement that he was calling for an independent audit of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office “in light of recent allegations that District Attorney

The order from U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan was certainly clear enough. In a landmark victory for Judicial Watch, the federal judge ordered the IRS to submit sworn declarations detailing what happened to Lois Lerner’s “lost” emails and what

Tensions heightened on Tuesday night as residents and activists grilled Los Angeles police officials with questions regarding the fatal shooting by LAPD officers of Ezell Ford, an unarmed mentally challenged African American, on August 11, 2014. Meeting at the Paradise

A row over how freedom should be defined has broken out on French social media pages, after former minister Nadine Morano posted a picture of a woman sitting on a beach wearing a long sleeved tunic, trousers and headscarf on

Further questions have been raised over an independent Scotland’s place in the world after the Secretary-General of NATO said there would be no automatic membership for the would-be breakaway state.  The announcement comes after news that Scotland would also not

Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to use Michael Brown’s death and the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, to push for more police diversity and even combat unintentional “disparate treatment under the law” of minorities. In an op-ed in the St. Louis

Umar Lee, a taxi driver in Ferguson, MO who also works as independent journalist blamed “out of town professional protesters” for inciting violence in the city on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart.”  He reported that locals seem to have

An article in yesterday’s Financial Times (FT) claiming that American banks are planning to move some of their activities to Dublin in the event of a British exit from the EU has been dismissed as “poorly briefed rubbish” and “wholly

A feminist studies professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) was sentenced to three years probation, 108 hours of community service, and 10 hours of anger management for her assault on a pro-life teen and vandalism of

The Justice Department under Eric Holder has issued a press release detailing its “civil rights investigation” in Ferguson. Among the revelations is that over 40 FBI agents are conducting an independent investigation of the scene of Michael Brown’s death: Attorney

President Obama announced that the Justice Department would complete an independent investigation of the shooting death of African American teenager Michael Brown, in response to the continued unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. Holder is expected to travel to the St. Louis

Monday at the news conference to discussing the newly released autopsy of Michael Brown, his family’s Attorney Benjamin Crump said an independent autopsy was conducted because “St. Louis law enforcement agencies” were  the “same individuals they feel are responsible for

Over and over, we are told that Hollywood’s only agenda is making money. It’s not about ideology or social engineering, it’s about chasing the bucks. There’s no doubt that Hollywood love things that make money–it just doesn’t love everything that

Debt, North Sea oil and the pound sterling are just some of the economic issues pitting Edinburgh against London ahead of Scotland’s independence referendum in one month’s time. First Minister Alex Salmond, the nationalist leader, insists Scotland must receive a

With a month to go until Scotland votes on independence from Britain, polls suggest the plan will be defeated, leaving First Minister Alex Salmond and the Yes camp in an uphill battle to secure victory. Salmond has struggled to convince