China, frequently cloaked in yellow haze, told the US Embassy to stop publishing their own reports on air quality in the country, escalating its objections to a popular US Embassy Twitter feed that tracks pollution in smoggy Beijing. Beijing's official air quality index records the pollution as "light" — a reading without a numerical comparison and at odds with what many people experience. US…
The House
Oversight Committee
Chairman Darrell Issa tries to get to the bottom of
just how the labor department is classifying its
so-called green jobs.According to the Department of Justice in April remembe they created 115,000 new jobs -- then they downward revised that to 69,000 . (h/t FoxNews)
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Bloodshed in Syria is continuing to spiral out of control as an uprising against Assad that began in March 2011 has morphed into an armed insurgency.
The area in central Syria has been pounded by syrian artillery and rockets The people of Syria are trying desperately to get out of the country and get across that border.
The United Nations, whose observers were able to visit Houla after the…
The official portrait of George W. Bush, the United States' 43rd president, was unveiled at the White House on Thursday, May 31, 2012.Both Bush and current President Barack Obama spoke at the ceremony, which was held in the East Room of the White House. Former President George H. W. Bush also attended today's ceremony. (h/t FoxNews )
Live Action released a new investigative video showing Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger clinic in New York City helping a woman determine if her unborn child was female so she could have a sex-selection abortion. (h/t www.ProtectOurGirls.com)
Live Action released a new undercover video on May 29 showing a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Austin, TX encouraging a woman to obtain a late-term abortion because she was purportedly carrying a girl and wanted to have a boy.The video is first in a new series titled "Gendercide: Sex-Selection in America," exposing the practice of sex-selective abortion in the United States and how…
Amateur video posted to a social media website shows survivors describing the violence of last week's massacre in Houla, Syria. (h/t Reuters)
President Obama signed an executive order giving the Treasury Department new authority to tighten sanctions on Iran and Iran and Syria. The president signed sanctions to penalize anyone who ignores the Treasury Departments sanctions on Iran and Syria and the Treasury Department can now publicly identify anyone who tries to trade with the two countries.New penalties include barring access to U.S…
Nineten-year-old Aesha's nose and ears were cut off by her Taliban husband. Born in a village in southern Afghanistan, Aesha was forced into marriage at a young age, as payback for a crime committed by someone else in her family. Aesha ran away, after years of abuse from her in-laws, but was caught and spent months in prison. Her father-in-law retrieved her and with her taliban husband and others…
A buzz of excitement sweeps through Egypt - the most populous and formerly the most influential country in the Arab world – a day before its first presidential election.The election will be contested by 13 candidates of different persuasions: Islamists, liberals and figures from Mubarak's regime. (h/t Fox News)