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Texas Fights Back Against Holder on Voting Rights

Texas Fights Back Against Holder on Voting Rights

Updating our story on Attorney General Eric Holder declaring war on Texas: Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) creates a preclearance regime, under which certain states with records of egregious racial voter discrimination cannot change any voting law

Major Health Insurers Abandon ObamaCare Exchanges

Major Health Insurers Abandon ObamaCare Exchanges

Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna, United Health Group, and Humana have all decided against participating in various states’ ObamaCare health insurance exchanges. The exchanges, which are scheduled to begin operation on October 1st, will be the only place Americans can purchase

Filner's Deposition Postponed Due to Therapy

Filner's Deposition Postponed Due to Therapy

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner’s (D) August 7 sexual assault deposition was postponed. The judge did not set a new date, but both sides must appear on September 16 to discuss legal issues. In July, Filner’s ex-communications director Irene McCormack

J.P. Morgan Under Investigation over Mortgage-Backed Securities

J.P. Morgan Under Investigation over Mortgage-Backed Securities

On Wednesday, America’s biggest bank by assets, J.P. Morgan, revealed that it is under federal criminal and civil investigation for actions involving mortgage-backed securities. In May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed J.P. Morgan that its civil division had preliminarily

Report: Fake cop pulls over real cops…

(AP) Report: Fake officer stopped real police agentsLAS VEGAS, N.M.Authorities say a man driving a truck with police lights on top made a crucial misstep during a bogus police stop in northern New Mexico. Police say the two men he

IRS Finally Offers Fast-Track Approval for Tax-Exempt Groups

IRS Finally Offers Fast-Track Approval for Tax-Exempt Groups

After months of inaction in the wake of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) conservative targeting scandal, the IRS is now seeking to rectify delayed applications for tax-exempt status through a fast-track program that allows 501 (c)(4) organizations to receive IRS

Apt Complex Tells 77-Year Old Marine to Get Rid of Guns or Get Out

Apt Complex Tells 77-Year Old Marine to Get Rid of Guns or Get Out

UPDATE: The “firearm and weapons” ban for Oakwood Apartments will not be applied. Colorado’s 9News reports: “Douglas County leaders say the apartments in question are public housing and they didn’t give [Ross Management Group] permission to infringe on individual rights.”

Feds Lower Training Requirements for ObamaCare 'Navigators'

Feds Lower Training Requirements for ObamaCare 'Navigators'

As we near the October 1 implementation date of ObamaCare, it is becoming increasingly clear that the federal government isn’t prepared. Late last week, HHS quietly reduced by one-third the number of hours of training required for “navigators,” individuals tasked

Coburn OK's OPM Director After Staffers Get Obamacare Waiver

Coburn OK's OPM Director After Staffers Get Obamacare Waiver

On Wednesday, immediately after the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a proposed ruling that allowed the federal government to subsidize the health insurance premiums of Congressional staffers–even though that may not be allowed under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)–Sen.

FTC Sued for Ignoring Own Contest Rules

FTC Sued for Ignoring Own Contest Rules

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decided last year to inaugurate a $50,000 competition open to the public for ideas on how to get rid of illegal robocalls. But the FTC ignored its own judging instructions, through which an internal panel

John Lewis Compares Snowden to MLK, Gandhi

John Lewis Compares Snowden to MLK, Gandhi

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who was beaten while marching for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, compared National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden to Gandhi and Martin Luther King. In an interview with the UK Guardian that

ObamaCare Unlikely to Secure Americans' Private Information

ObamaCare Unlikely to Secure Americans' Private Information

ObamaCare requires that the government know Americans’ financial, medical, and employment information. This data should be private, yet the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says that the Obama administration has