GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 05/07/2015

US Appeals Court: NSA Phone Metadata Collection Exceeds Authorization of Congress The bulk collection of Americans' phone records by the government exceeds what Congress has allowed, a federal appeals court said Thursday as it asked Congress to step in and decide how best to balance national security and privacy interests.

Liberal Media Work With Jihadists It's strange that the liberals in the media who always complain about Joe McCarthy once having a list of communists in government are so quick to cite the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of so-called right-wing extremists or "haters."

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ISIS possible threat to U.S., definite threat to free speech A longtime Christian leader says the recent terrorist attack in Garland, Texas show's it's time for the U.S. to get serious about the Islamic State terrorists.

Court rulings cannot change religious convictions There is no denying that the gay movement has come a long way in recent years. It accomplished that mostly by assuming the role of an oppressed minority group and emulating the black civil-rights movement.

Baltimore mayor seeks federal civil-rights probe of police Baltimore's mayor was emphatic last week: She did not want federal oversight of her police department. The Democratic mayor now says she'll accept outside intervention to rebuild public trust in a city torn by riots over the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody.

Hands up! Michael Brown pal arrested Dorian Johnson, the man who was with Michael Brown Jr. when Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer last summer, has been arrested on suspicion of drug charges and resisting arrest, St. Louis police said.

Jesse Jackson keeps pressure for diversity on Silicon Valley Jesse Jackson renewed his call Wednesday for the technology industry to make workforce diversity as high a priority as product innovation.