GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 05/22/2014

Lawyer: VA delay killed Washington state man Donald Douglass had a small spot on his forehead when he went to the Seattle Veterans Affairs hospital in 2011. A biopsy confirmed it was cancerous. But it was four months before he was able to schedule an appointment to have it removed — and by then, it had spread, wrapping around a facial nerve and eventually getting into his blood.

Clinic to kids: 'Sex is fun ... we're here to help' A federally funded children's hospital in Colorado is providing underage children free birth control, the "morning-after" pill, and even intrauterine devices – and under the law, parents don't have to know about it.

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Will Detroit Be Healed by Searching for 'Subtle Racism'? Just off of the James C. Lodge Freeway in Detroit is Eight Mile Road. The stretch near the freeway is just east of the famed area that provided the basis for the Eminem film of the same name.

Dozens charged in NYC child porn case A slice of the New York City area mainstream - a police officer, a fire department paramedic, a rabbi, a nurse, a Boy Scout leader - used the Internet to anonymously collect and trade child pornography, federal officials said Wednesday.

Obama sends 80 US troops to Chad to seek abducted girls The United States has deployed 80 military personnel to Chad to help locate the nearly 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria last month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

White People Be Playing the Race Card I'm old enough to remember when only black people called black people "Uncle Tom." Democrats, however, long expanded the category of who can play the race card and on whom. Call them equal opportunity race-card players.