GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 06/18/2014

Feds punish Redskins owner for use of team name The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's federal trademarks for the name must be canceled.

The latest in scientific research: There is no gay gene One of the reasons that homosexual activists bludgeon people into accepting biological determinism with regard to homosexuality is that they must have it. If homosexuality is not in fact genetically caused, they have nothing.

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Slavery Reparations Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014). In making his argument, Coates goes through the horrors of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination.

Clinton admits 'Unanswered questions' remain on Benghazi Hillary Rodham Clinton says some unanswered questions remain about the deadly 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, even as U.S. authorities have captured their first suspect in the case.

Obama, Kerry Foreign Policy a Disaster for Democrats Remember then-Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke" to college students about getting "stuck in Iraq" in the final days of the 2006 midterm elections?

A Fed-Up Veteran Blasts VA's Lie, Delay, Deny Abyss As Obama administration officials pivot like haywire jewelry-box ballerinas to divert attention away from the nationwide Veterans Affairs disgrace, a reader who has been fighting the system urged me to urge Capitol Hill and the American public to stay focused.