The ruling by the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that McDonald’s is actually a huge employer of more than 175,000 workers in the United States, rather than a franchisor with thousands of independent franchisees, will, if it is upheld, allow the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to recruit those workers much more easily. The ruling was […]

In order to ramp up support for Senator Amy Klobucher’s (D-Minn.) gun-control bill, Michael Bloomberg, former New York City mayor and now the founder and prime funder of his latest anti-gun group, Everytown for Gun Safety, paid for a video that has gone viral. Unfortunately for the former mayor, for all the wrong reasons. When Laura Bassett at Huffington Post […]

Written by  John F. McManus Over recent years, legislation and policy dealing with immigration into the United States aren’t doing the job. Many laws are being ignored, others are working in ways contrary to their intent, and some that aren’t even laws (e.g., executive orders) have the effect of increasing the number of border crossers. The U.S. Constitution mentions the […]

By Russell Berman On Wednesday, House Republicans sued President Obama for acting on his own without approval from Congress. On Thursday, House Republicans told President Obama he should act on his own to fix the border crisis. The messaging whiplash resulted from Speaker John Boehner’s failure – so far – to pass a Republican spending bill that would provide $659 […]

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Intensive Israeli shelling killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 150 in southern Gaza on Friday, medics said, shattering a fragile truce only hours after it began. AFP correspondents said the artillery barrage of the southern city of Rafah was ongoing, preventing medics from recovering the dead and wounded, after the army […]

Kampala (AFP) – Uganda’s constitutional court on Friday overturned tough new anti-gay laws that had been branded draconian by rights groups, saying they had been wrongly passed by parliament. The law is “null and void,” the presiding judge told the court, saying the process had contravened the constitution, as it has been passed in parliament in December without the necessary […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Thursday approved a $10.9 billion funding extension for transportation construction projects through May 2015, averting a cutback in federal payments to states that was due to start on Friday. Senate approval by a vote of 81-13 sent the measure to President Barack Obama to be signed into law after it […]

Washington (AFP) – In a last-ditch effort to schedule a vote dealing with a influx of undocumented Central American children, the US House of Representatives postponed its summer recess. The move came after the Republican-controlled chamber scrapped a vote earlier in the day on a bill to provide $659 million in emergency aid for the humanitarian crisis at the border. […]

By Scott Greer The Obama administration lost a crucial legal battle on July 18 when a federal court ordered the White House to release previously withheld information on Operation Fast and Furious to the government watchdog group Judicial Watch. According to a press released issued Thursday, the court case stems from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit (that originally began […]

General events on August 1st In 1619, the first blacks (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia. It is late summer. Out of a violent storm appears a Dutch ship. The ship’s cargo hold is empty except for twenty or so Africans whom the captain and his crew have recently robbed from a Spanish ship. The captain exchanges the Africans for food, then […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved President Barack Obama’s choice of John Tefft to be the next American ambassador to Russia, filling a post that had been vacant since February. Tefft is a former envy to Ukraine under Obama, and to Georgia and Lithuania under Republican President George W. Bush.     Tefft will go to Moscow […]

(Reuters) – U.S. Congressman Eric Cantor said he will resign his seat effective Aug. 18, months earlier than expected following a shock primary election defeat, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on Friday. Cantor, who on Thursday stepped down from his leadership position in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, said he had asked Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to call a special election […]

‘Stop Whining’ and Take ObamaCare Rep Anna Eshoo (D-CA) told Republicans at a hearing debating a GOP proposal allowing people who like their insurance plans to keep them to just stop whining and swallow this part of ObamaCare. “Your plan is whining. Your plan is suing the president and using taxpayer dollars,” she said, changing the subject to another part […]

Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. —Jeremiah 15:16 Read: Psalm 119:33-48 Dr. Smiley Blanton was a busy New York City psychiatrist who kept a Bible on his desk. Somewhat surprised to see this, a client asked, “Do you, a psychiatrist, read the Bible?” “I not […]

By Coach Dave Daubenmire / NewsWithViews.com My experience has taught me that there is one Bible verse that all of America believes…those who call themselves Christians as well as those who do not. These two words have become the standard by which all Americans are to live their daily lives. These words are, “Judge Not…!” ( Matthew 7:1) I have previously […]

  By Laura Leslie Raleigh, N.C. — A proposal to regulate large commercial dog breeders appears to be dead for the year, doomed once again by opposition from state Senate leaders. The House passed legislation in 2013 that would require large breeding operations, or “puppy mills,” to meet basic standards of animal welfare, sanitation and humane treatment. The Senate refused […]

Written by  Jack Kenny Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee protested in a letter to President Obama that no one in his state government had received notice that 760 of the estimated 50,000 unaccompanied minors who have entered the country illegally in the past several months have been sent to the Volunteer State. “It is unacceptable that we became aware via […]

Editor’s Note: We like the A-10 Thunderbolt is also known as the Warthog the ‘flying gun’ and the Tankbuster. The aircraft was used extensively during Operation Desert Storm, in support of Nato operations in response to the Kosovo crisis, in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The A-10 is a high-survivability and versatile aircraft, popular with […]

More Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee want the administration to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine. “We should allow them to have types of lethal equipment, which are not the most provocative, but which are defensive,” Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) told reporters following a classified briefing from administration officials. His comments put him squarely on the side of other […]

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a $17 billion overhaul of the Veterans Affairs Department. The 420-5 vote sends a conference agreement hammered out by negotiators in both chambers to the Senate, where it is expected to be approved on Thursday. The three-year bill provides $10 billion in funding to allow veterans to get medical treatment at non-VA providers. Another $5 billion […]