The President's Gun Plan Puts Radical Ideology Over National Security
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Jan. 8, 2016 |
Good morning from the nation's capital, where conservative lawmakers see frustration behind the ongoing occupation of federal land in Oregon. They talk to Melissa Quinn. In a commentary, a Georgia congressman says President Obama is obsessed with gun control rather than keeping the nation secure. A Heritage Foundation legal expert credits Congress with quashing an IRS rule that trampled free speech, and Kelsey Harkness covers the agency's capitulation on a plan to require nonprofits to collect Social Security numbers. Nolan Peterson, our foreign correspondent, ruminates on how combat stays with soldiers. |
CommentaryThe President's Gun Plan Puts Radical Ideology Over National SecurityPresident Obama's inaction on securing our borders and ignoring terrorists' threats to infiltrate our nation proves his plan is not to make America safer, argues Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. |
NewsConservatives Agree Standoff in Oregon Elevates Debate on Federal Land OwnershipRep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., said the federal government was hypocritical in its punishment of the Hammonds for employing the same techniques the government does—and damaging far more land. |
Commentary2 Reasons US Having 2nd Hottest Year in 2015 Doesn't Prove Climate Catastrophe Is ImminentAt first glance, new data about last year's temperatures would seem to put to rest the claim that there has been no significant global warming for 15-20 years. But it doesn't. |
CommentaryHow Lawmakers Stopped Part of Obama's Assault on First AmendmentAt the end of 2013, the IRS proposed a new, restrictive regulation to change its definition of "campaign-related political activity" by nonprofit advocacy organizations like the NRA and various tea party groups. |
NewsWhy Soldiers Miss WarAsk most combat veterans to name the worst experiences of their lives, and they'll probably tell you it was war. But here's the confusing part. When you ask them to choose the best experiences of their lives, they'll usually say it was war, too. |
NewsIRS Won't Ask Nonprofits to Collect Social Security Numbers"President Obama's IRS is abandoning its blatantly heavy-handed regulation to ask charities to disclose the Social Security numbers of donors giving $250 or more annually," said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots. |
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