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The Department of State has refused to divulge any information on whether the American Muslim who reportedly joined the Islamic State and was captured by Turkey is still in Turkish custody. In late April, Kary Paul Kleman, an American citizen, surrendered to Turkish authorities while crossing over the border with …

The last global financial crisis didn’t just hit American banks hard; European banks suffered just as much, if not more. And while our banks have largely recovered from the crisis, the same is not true for some European banks particularly those in the ‘PIGS’ (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain). And …

After President Trump rejected the Paris Climate treaty, which had never been ratified by the Senate, the European Union announced that it would work with a climate confederacy of secessionist states. Scotland and Norway’s environmental ministers have mentioned a focus on individual American states. And the secessionist governments of California, …

The endgame of the radical left is a nation filled with hatred, anger and violence. Is this really a message that the American people are going to embrace? For decades, Democrats have been getting a tremendous amount of mileage out of “divide and conquer” tactics. In other words, they get …

You’ve probably been told your whole life that monsters aren’t real, but you might be hard pressed to believe that sentiment after reading this story. A Florida resident came upon a grizzly scene on his rural property earlier this month, after one of his pet goats went missing. Scott Dame, …

At the end of 2011, my organization and our international partners in Europe called upon the United Nations and the international human rights community to act quickly and decisively to save the Christians of Syria, who are being increasingly threatened and victimized by Islamic supremacists. It’s not as if anyone …

On Sunday, the people of Puerto Rico went to the polls and cast their ballots for change. Sunday’s ballot gave voters three options: Everything stays the same. Puerto Rico remains a territory of the United States and the people of the territory continue to receive most of the rights and …

In a saga that will probably soon appear on tabloids next to supermarket checkout counters, Twitter has just given a ‘verified’ badge to Danney Williams, an Arkansas resident who claims to be Bill Clinton’s illegitimate son. Knowing the proclivities of ‘Slick Willy’, we wouldn’t put it past him to have one …

Even some fans of massive State power are beginning to grow weary of our increasingly Orwellian situation here in “the land of the free” and the home of the NSA. In a rare flicker of good news on this front, an article posted by McClatchy yesterday revealed that at least some partial …

By now, you should be seeing a trend in our study of the Constitution.  The Articles set up the form and intent of the Federal Government. But many of the Framers believed this was inadequate for their peace of mind in ratifying this first-ever document. They believed eventually the Federal government would encroach on individual …