An “ongoing and severe epidemic” of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has pounded the United States with 20 million new cases a year that stick it to the nation’s healthcare system with an astounding $16 billion in medical costs. Happy Valentine’s Day from Uncle Sam! A new report issued this week by the Centers for Disease

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As the nation’s Homeland Security Secretary toured the Mexican border area this week to promote how safe it is, the State Department quietly issued an alert warning about the region’s escalating drug-cartel violence. Who should Americans believe? Here are the choices from two different U.S. government sources just days apart; the U.S. Consulate General in

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Federal employees at a major government agency are encouraged to use social media—such as Twitter and Facebook—during work hours and one staffer recently “tweeted” death threats to reporters who exposed an official’s exorbitant salary. This may sound like the sort of juvenile stuff that goes on among adolescents in high school, but it’s actually taking

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Days before the start of his corruption trial, the once powerful head of Florida’s Republican Party (Jim Greer) has pleaded guilty to multiple felonies—including theft and money laundering—for stealing north of $200,000 in party funds. Republicans dodged a bullet with the surprising last-minute plea deal because damaging information about the party’s wild spending sprees was

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The radical Islamic imam behind the controversial Ground Zero mosque used donations to his nonprofits—created to combat anti-Muslim sentiments in the U.S.—to live the high life with his wife and mistress, according to a lawsuit filed recently in New York court. Feisel Abdul Rauf, head of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba

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The Obama administration is determined to keep throwing money at minority farmers who claim to be victims of government discrimination, this month issuing a friendly reminder of an upcoming application deadline and a call center to facilitate the claims process. The minority farmer cash giveaway started a few years ago when the administration gave black

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Special interest groups that advocate on behalf of illegal aliens are dictating immigration enforcement in the U.S. and prohibiting federal agents from implementing many of the laws enacted by Congress. The shocking revelation came this week during congressional testimony from a veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who serves as president of the union

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Is a Clinton-appointed judge helping the government cover up scandalous information involving the murder of a federal intern who was romantically involved with a married Democratic congressman? It’s a question worth asking considering the secrecy surrounding the high-profile murder case of Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.,

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The Dominican hooker scandal involving New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez has turned into a tale of political corruption and cronyism that’s exposed how the lawmaker evidently abused his power to enrich a donor and one-time legislative aide. As if hiring underage prostitutes in a third-world country weren’t bad enough for the new head of the

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As if the Obama administration didn’t have enough crises to deal with, it’s dedicating the resources of a federal agency to issue official regulations to ban potato chips, candy and soda from schools throughout the nation. It’s an area that many Americans might agree doesn’t require government meddling but never the less the Obama administration

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