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March 19, 2012 (CatholicAnchor.org) - I am not sure if you’ve heard but the Obama administration has declared, after much study, that pork is better for you than beef. So the administration is implementing a nationwide law to have pork served regularly in all hospitals. Unfortunately this means both Jewish and Muslim hospitals will have to comply because many patients who eat there do not share that faith. And schools of both Jewish and Muslim faith will have to serve pork because some students who attend the institutions do not share their beliefs. There will be exemptions of course for...

Mission Creep: DHS Agency Abandons Fighting Terrorism, Shifts to Hiring Police, Taking Over AmericaA new white paper presented to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence carves out an ‘evolving mission’ for Homeland Security that moves away from fighting terrorism and towards growing a vast domestic intelligence apparatus that would expand integration with local/state agencies and private-public partnerships already underway via regional fusion centers. Crafted by the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group, co-chaired by former DHS chief Michael Chertoff and composed of a who’s who of national security figures, the report outlines a total mission creep, as the title “Homeland...

I’m beginning to catch on to the strategy. It’s like the shell game. Keep the public and the media watching the problems with the economy, while another sinister agenda is going on unchallenged and out of sight. Meanwhile, the U.S. government may have killed a few despots and terrorists in foreign lands to make it look like a successful war against terrorism is being waged. The Obama-loving media likes that very much. Kudos to the president. Don’t look anywhere else. » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter Well, some of us do look elsewhere. On...

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog AtlasShrugs.com. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories — notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Her op-eds have been published in The Washington Times, The American Thinker, Israel National News, Frontpage Magazine, World Net Daily, and New Media Journal, among other publications. She is the co-author (with Robert Spencer) of The Post-American Presidency: The...

One aspect of a new and improved federal regulatory scheme is the seizure of 401(k) retirement plans and the subsequent government-administered disbursement of the funds. In Chapter 3 of the Annual Report on the Middle Class released in February by Vice President Biden and the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, the Obama administration calls for enhancing the “retirement options” for the middle class by imposing “new regulations to improve the transparency and adequacy of 401(k) retirement savings.” The plan, as sketched in the 43-page document, calls for the creation of something called “Guaranteed Retirement Accounts” (GRAs). Biden...