Tuesday, May 13, 2014

RENEW AMERICA 05/12/2014


JOAN SWIRSKY, RA ANALYST — To: Chairman Trey Gowdy and the Select Committee on Benghazi -- Your investigation is a huge relief to millions of Americans like me who have wondered and agonized over the past almost-two years about the actual events that happened before, during, and after the September 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi... (more)


May 12, 2014
WESTERN JOURNALISM — Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) turned the tables on the media and asked them questions about Benghazi. The silence was deafening.... (more)


May 12, 2014
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — No doubt an old parlor game in Washington will emerge now that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) has been assigned by House Speaker John Boehner to chair a special select committee to unravel the Benghazi scandal... (more)


May 12, 2014
ALAN KEYES — Earlier this week, I read an article on WND with a URL that included the description "fox-news-star-unleashed-impeach-obama." That got my attention. The link took me to a story with the headline "Fox News star goes public: Impeach Obama."... (more)


May 12, 2014
RENEWAMERICA — Mark Callahan, the U.S. Senate candidate who was booted from an Oregon editorial meeting for daring to confront a reporter who wrote "blah blah blah" in quoting another candidate's words, has signed a pledge calling for impeaching and removing Barack Obama for his "willful and repeated" abuses of power... (more)


May 12, 2014
NEWSMAX — Why the United States did not send military support when American service personnel were under attack in 2012 at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is one of the primary questions Rep. Adam Kinzinger said he wants answered from the House select committee's investigation into the incident.... (more)


May 12, 2014
NEWSMAX — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered to help Nigeria search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, an offer that was accepted.... (more)


May 12, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — Under pressure from a growing social-media campaign, the White House said Monday it is providing 26 U.S. personnel to the Nigerian government to help find more than 200 girls kidnapped by a terrorist group.... (more)


May 12, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — One of the nation's leading foreign-policy experts has revealed to WND what he believes is the key to getting leftists to join the war on terror: Enlisting feminists to the cause. And, suddenly, Richard Perle's prescription seems like a prediction coming true before our very eyes.... (more)


May 12, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — In what some are calling a replay of the standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, a New Mexico county board agreed Monday to instruct the sheriff to remove the Forest Service gates blocking thirsty cattle from reaching water, setting up a clash with federal agents over state water rights and endangered species.... (more)


May 12, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — In California, it may soon be legal for gay men to list themselves as "mother" on birth certificates, and similarly, for lesbians to cite themselves as "father." Or, the gay parent could simply opt for the more generic label of "parent," The Associated Press reported.... (more)


May 12, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Pentagon is not reviewing or planning to review its policy that bans transgenders from military service, a defense official said Monday. The official's statement came a day after Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told ABC News the prohibition on transexuals and cross-dressers "continually should be reviewed."... (more)


May 12, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — A prominent conservative strategist is taking strong exception to the perception that the tea-party movement is losing ground among voters.... (more)


May 11, 2014
BRYAN FISCHER — I have argued since I first began writing and speaking on this issue that the First Amendment restrains only the actions of Congress. The first word in the First Amendment, after all, is the word "Congress."... (more)


May 10, 2014
NEWSMAX — House Speaker John Boehner's selection of seven Republicans on a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other diplomatic staff members in September 2012 reveals a mix of male and female lawmakers who bring a variety of experience and political power to the table.... (more)


May 10, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — Gay marriage and abortion, divisive issues within the Republican party, have flared again at the RNC's meeting here, with Nevada's delegation firing back at criticism of its April decision to remove anti-abortion and anti-gay language from its state platform.... (more)


May 10, 2014
NEWSMAX — An Arkansas state judge struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage on Friday saying it violates equal protection provisions of the U.S. Constitution, with the ruling adding to the momentum of expanding marriage rights for same-sex couples.... (more)


May 10, 2014
CBS-ATLANTA — Health officials say syphilis has reached its highest level since 1995 with the increase all in men. Syphilis remains far less common in the U.S. than many other sexually spread diseases. But there has been a steady rise in gay and bisexual men catching the disease. They account for most of the recent infectious cases.... (more)


May 10, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — A New Hampshire teen has blasted her local school board for resorting to "force" and told members she doesn't feel safe when she is around them, in a terse statement that has been posted online. The comments come from Marina Baer and was directed to members of the Gilford, N.H., district board.... (more)


May 10, 2014
MICHELLE MALKIN — All politics is local. So Republican politicians with national ambitions better pay attention to what grassroots parents are saying and doing about the federal education racket known as Common Core. In bellwether Indiana this week, anti-Common Core activists won a pair of pivotal electoral victories against GOP Gov. Mike Pence.... (more)


May 10, 2014
ROBERT KNIGHT — After the full House of Representatives cited former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress on Wednesday, The Washington Times fittingly made it the lead story.... (more)


May 10, 2014
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In this week's episode of the Capitol Hill soap opera, Lois Lerner, the apparatchik at the center of the IRS jihad against conservative groups, was at long, long last held in contempt of Congress. Amid the farce, the House's IRS probe is floundering.... (more)


May 10, 2014
FOX NEWS — Motel owner Russell Caswell wasn't expecting to find himself at the center of a national controversy when FBI agents came knocking on his door.... (more)


May 8, 2014
CLIFF KINCAID — Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine has apparently surprised a lot of people who thought the Cold War was over, and that Russia had been integrated into the "community of nations." In 2012, President Obama pushed through Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Russia, giving Putin access to billions of dollars of Western capital... (more)


May 8, 2014
JEROME R. CORSI — The controversy that developed in 2012 when Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and four other GOP members of the House sent letters to the inspector generals at the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State asking for an investigation of the influence played by the Muslim Brotherhood on U.S. government officials in the Obama administration took on new light last week... (more)

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