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George Zimmerman is standing trial after being accused of murdering Trayvon Martin during a scuffle while serving a turn patrolling for his neighborhood watch program. The program was started up due to a series of home invasions in the area. While the court trial is currently focused on sorting out the details of the case, many are concerned about the potential for riots in Orlando due to the racially charged nature with which the incident has been portrayed; both by the media, and due to meddling by the Obama administration...

According to the European Union’s law enforcement agency handling criminal intelligence, Italy’s mafia has infiltrated the nebulous “Green Energy” industry, not only for traditional money laundering purposes, but also to capitalize on lucrative EU subsidies. On Thursday, Europol published a report suggesting that the mafia is making investments into the renewable energy industry, with a special focus on wind farms due to generous grants paid for by European Union member states. For an industry that is no stranger to scandals...

The leftist Obama administration, which has made no secret of its political opposition to the constitutional right of gun ownership, recently ordered an official report which has proven an embarrassment as its own report contradicts the president’s policy and found that gun ownership increases public safety. In reaction to the shooting at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama publicly supported restrictions on firearms as the solution to preventing future incidents, even though there were many signs pointing to the mental instability of the perpetrator of the incident. Presumably supporting any possible restriction on firearms, Obama is...

On Tuesday, the Treasury Department announced that key provisions requiring businesses with more than 50 employees would be delayed until after 2014 midterm elections. Critics of the 906 page healthcare regulatory act have suggested that the move is entirely politically motivated, and intended to allow Democrats to escape responsibility for the increasingly unpopular act that they created...

Obama administration officials from the Health and Human Services Department have reportedly been soliciting support from many of the country's top sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NASCAR. The administration is presumably looking to kill opposition to the 906 page healthcare regulatory act, by associating the regulations with the popular brand names those sports organizations have built for themselves...

As the Obama administration pushes for stronger gun laws in the United States, Canada is moving toward entirely eliminating its controversial gun registry program. Many critics have noted that gun registries place additional burdens on honest citizens looking to own firearms, while opening them up to politically motivated targeting of the kind recently revealed in the United States when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted it had been targeting conservatives for extra scrutiny...

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After a controversial decision by the US Supreme Court today invalidating the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which was passed by elected members of the United States Congress in 1996, President Barack Obama promised that he would continue to allow religious institutions to enjoy protections by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which prohibits Congress from creating a “law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” It is not clear why President Obama felt it was necessary to clarify that he would not encourage an attack on the first amendment, although critics note that...

Now sought in the United States on espionage charges, Edward Snowden has reportedly gone from Hong Kong, to Russia, despite requests of extradition by the Obama administration. Many experts have begun to wonder if the Obama administration has squandered the international influence held by the previous administration of George Bush, which managed to unite a coalition of 36 countries during operation Iraqi Freedom...

Presumably due the increasing unpopularity of Obama’s controversial “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (PPACA), U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, will be responsible for $54 in funding to support a large contingent of health care officials known as, “navigators,” who will be tasked with assisting citizens with the complexity of the 906 page healthcare regulation act. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives at the time, famously justified rushing the bill through Congress at the time as a necessary procedure, because it was necessary to”pass the bill so that you can find...

According to a new national poll, Obama’s approval rating dropped to 45%.Obama has struggled to avoid multiple scandals in his second term, which some critics have described as a pattern of abuses far greater than the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon...

US Congressman Jeff Duncan says that he saw IRS “special agents” using semi-automatic rifles during a visit to a federal law enforcement facility at the end of May. He noted that the agents seemed to be using AR-15 rifles. Rep. Duncan stated that he will begin pressing the agency for answers as to why the nation’s taxing agency is training with semi-automatic weapons, and added that he could not “fathom a reason they would need that.”...

...It is unclear why the bridge was allowed to fall in a state of repair which allowed a catastrophic collapse, since the Obama administration pushed through a $787 billion economic stimulus package as one of his first acts. The stimulus was criticized by many for failing to address the underlying problems with the economy at the time, and many feared the money would have been better spent in the private sector. Titled, the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” Obama touted the virtue of the act, as a way of providing “shovel ready” jobs to Americans, who were struggling during an...

th Day of Riots in Stockholm A north-western suburb of Stockholm has been hit by five days of riots, in which several schools have been burned out, numerous vehicles have been set on fire, and a police station was attacked. The suburb, Husby, is reportedly well known for its large immigrant population, which is comprised of incomers from predominantly Muslim countries, including Turkey, the Middle East, and Somalia. The riots are just the latest round of violence from an immigrant population that increasingly has left many in Sweden questioning the immigration policies of the country....

NYC Mayor Bloomberg is famous for heavily regulating daily life in New York City, from banning trans fat, to regulating soft drink sizes. Now two members of the NY legislature are doubling down on the type of regulation that has made Bloomberg famous in New York City....

USBC News Wire- According to a report by the Boston Globe, First Lady, Michelle Obama, is said to be eying a vacation for an "extended period" while the crisis-ridden Obama struggles on, trying to contain numerous scandals. Currently, the Obama administration is struggling to handle an increasing number of scandals. This list is long and includes among others, ethical failings from the lingering "Fast and Furious" investigations to the Benghazi inquiries continuing to Pigford abuse through to potential abuses of power in the IRS...

USBC News Wire- According to a post via Twitter by a Columnist with the Washington Times, aides in the scandal-ridden Obama administration are “terrified” by information being closely guarded by the White House. Joseph Curl says that a CIA source has told him that the increasingly withdrawn Obama Administration’s most recent scandal, involving the monitoring of Fox News reporter James Rosen’s email account, “goes much deeper.” He goes on to say, in future posts, that “only a few in WH know that ‘something’ — ‘It’s been deep sixed, like Osama bin Laden.’” Mr. Curl’s ominous revelations via twitter...

USBC News Wire- Rather than being a single instance of scandalous targeting of citizens by the IRS, questions are arising as to whether the scandal has merely exposed a more institutionalized abuse of the power in the Internal Revenue Service. In 2012, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Al Franken (D-MN), both urged the IRS to clamp down on 501(c)(4) organizations, which are precisely the types of conservative organizations the IRS revealed it has been targeting for increased scrutiny during the Obama administration. Former comedian, Sen. Al Franken is reportedly said to have commented on the ability of groups to form...

USBC News Wire- According to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, “the flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year,” and warned that it was possible that within a generation, “Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt.” One of the clearest examples of this trend, is the fact that nearly 60% of Iraqi Christians have left country after the removal of Saddam Hussein resulted in a power vacuum in which Christians were left vulnerable in the predominantly Muslim nation. The trend has only increased in speed and size since the...

USBC News Wire- Another scandal has hit the already affair-ridden Obama administration. This scandal has come to light the heels of the shocking scandal in which the IRS was used to target US citizens, but in this case it is the Department of Justice (DOJ) which was used in an intimidating way against people who may have not agreed with the Democratic administration. While only now coming to light, the DOJ reportedly seized phone records of at least 20 AP journalists over an extended period of time without proper procedures. While Obama has continued to deny that he knew anything...