Rep. Charlie Rangel Reportedly Failed to Report All-Expense-Paid Trip to China

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Photo Credit: Fox News Longtime Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel failed to report an all-expense-paid trip he took to China just four years after he was censured by the House for accepting improper travel, the National Journal reported Thursday.

The 84-year-old New York congressman, who won a tight primary contest this week, was one of 10 lawmakers from Congressional Black Caucus who went on the 10-day trip last August. According to the National Journal, Rangel is the only one of the group who has not either listed the trip on annual financial disclosure forms or asked for an extension on their reports.

A Rangel spokesman told the National Journal after its story was published that the “congressman has taken immediate action to file necessary amendments.”

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“Undocumented Americans” the New Term for Illegal Immigrants?

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Photo Credit: TownHallOver the past few years immigration reform advocates have successfully gotten major news outlets to officially change their policy on using “illegal immigrant” to describe, well, illegal immigrants. In 2013 the Associated Press amended its styleguide, instructing reporters to no longer refer to people as “illegal.” Also off limits: illegal alien, an illegal, illegals, or undocumented. Rather, AP said to “specify wherever possible how someone entered the country illegally and from where.”

This change wasn’t limited to AP, of course, and other media outlets quickly followed suit. Now, however, NRO has noticed that immigration reform advocates are beginning to refer to illegal immigrants as “undocumented Americans.”

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Swine Flu Confirmed at Shelter for Unaccompanied Minors

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Photo Credit: APAn unaccompanied minor from Central America who entered the U.S. illegally has been confirmed as having the Swine Flu, also known as the H1N1 flu.

A spokesperson from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that the sick child is at the Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio, according to KRGV. 2,000 H1N1 vaccinations are being brought to the air base, where more than 1,000 illegal immigrant minors are currently staying.

Congressman Louie Gohmert told Breitbart Texas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services–the agency currently caring for many of the unaccompanied minors–is not doing an adequate job of screening and treating diseases.

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GOP Senator Collins Says She Supports Gay Marriage

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Photo Credit: TownHall Republican Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday announced her support for gay marriage for the first time after getting an endorsement from the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization in her bid for re-election.

“A number of states, including my home state of Maine, have now legalized same-sex marriage, and I agree with that decision,” the Maine Republican said in a statement issued after several news organizations made inquiries.

Collins joins three other GOP senators who have said they support gay marriage: Illinois’ Mark Kirk, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Ohio’s Rob Portman.

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Chris McDaniel to Challenge Election Results

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Photo Credit: APState Sen. Chris McDaniel will challenge the results of the Tuesday runoff election, in which 41-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran won by about 6,400 votes, McDaniel announced to a room of supporters here at his victory party at the Hattiesburg Convention Center late Tuesday evening.

“I want to be very, very clear: There is nothing dangerous or extreme about wanting to balance a budget,” McDaniel said in a fiery speech to supporters. There is nothing dangerous or extreme about defending the Constitution or the civil liberties therein. There is nothing strange at all about standing as people of faith for a country that we built, that we believe in. But there is something a bit strange, there is something a bit unusual, about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats.”

McDaniel said Cochran’s decision to seek Democrats to vote for him in the Republican primary runoff was un-Republican.

“So much for bold colors,” McDaniel said. “So much for principle. I guess they can take some consolation in the fact that they did something tonight by once again compromising, by once again reaching across the aisle, by once again abandoning the conservative movement. I would like to know which part of that strategy today our Republican friends endorse. I would like to know which part of that strategy today our statewide officials endorse. This is not the party of Reagan, but we’re not done fighting and when we’re done it will be.”

McDaniel said that Cochran’s actions mean the “conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats” in Mississippi on Tuesday, something he argued can’t be allowed to stand as precedent. “In the most conservative state in the republic this happened and if it can happen here, it can happen anywhere—and that’s why we will never stop fighting,” McDaniel said.

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Liberal Law Professor Jonathan Turley Thinks Congress Could Win Its New Lawsuit Against Obama

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Photo Credit: TownHall Left-wing law professor Jonathan Turley baffled his MSNBC cohorts on Wednesday when he claimed House Republicans have a real case in their lawsuit against President Obama for executive overreach, explaining that “there’s no license for going it alone in our system.”

On Wednesday, House Republican Speaker John Boehner filed a lawsuit on behalf of the institution of Congress accusing President Obama of abusing the power of the White House to unconstitutionally rewrite domestic laws.

Turley, a George Washington University law professor who supports much of President Obama’s agenda, has already opposed this White House before — most notably on the lack of notification to Congress before the transfer of five dangerous Taliban prisoners from Gitmo.

And after being asked by MSNBC host Steve Kornacki whether Boehner had “any kind of a case” with today’s new lawsuit, Turley remained consistent.

“I think there is a case against the president for exceeding his authority,” he declared. “I happen to agree with the president on many of his priorities and policies, but as I testified in Congress I think he has crossed the constitutional line.”

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SCOTUS Unanimously Strikes Down Obama’s Executive Overreach for the 11th Time

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Photo Credit: APU.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement lauding the Supreme Court for protecting privacy rights in the decision Riley v. California.

“I applaud the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to protect the rights of all Americans to be free from warrantless searches of their cell phones,” said Sen. Cruz. “This is the eleventh time since January 2012 that the Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the Obama Administration’s arguments for greater governmental power…”

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Bill Maher: ‘Obama is Always Spouting Spiritual Bullish*t and I Don’t Believe It For a Second’

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Photo Credit: IJ Review Bill Maher was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and made a surprising assertion: Barack Obama is an atheist, but for political purposes he can’t just come out and say it.

You know who’s a liar about this is Obama.

Obama is always spouting spiritual bullish*t and I don’t believe it for a second.

He’s a drop-dead atheist, absolutely.

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‘Duck Dynasty’ Star: Time To ‘Vote This Ungodly Bunch Out Of Washington’

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Photo Credit: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images“Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson is looking for new leadership in Washington.

During his appearance at the “Rock the South” music festival in Cullman, the reality television star stated it’s time to vote those “ungodly” politicians out of Congress.

“Whatever you do, go register to vote, especially on this next presidential election. Register to vote and you ought to register for the House and the Senate, too. Get your tail down there and vote this ungodly bunch out of Washington, D.C.,” Robertson told the crowd while getting a raucous ovation.

Robertson also delved into his controversial comments he made about homosexuality in a GQ interview last December.

“I’m actually a nice man,” Robertson told the crowd. “I’m trying to help those poor souls and turn them to Jesus.

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Exposed: How the VA Red-Flags ‘Disruptive’ Vets

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Photo Credit: TownHall Imagine how much better off America’s veterans would be if the federal government spent more time delivering actual care and less time compiling tyrannical lists. The death-inducing secret waiting lists for patients are just the tip of the iceberg.

Did you know, for example, that the VA keeps a database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets that results in arbitrarily restricted care?

Disabled Air Force veteran and veterans advocate/attorney Benjamin Krause has been raising questions about the system for months and warning his peers. Under the VA policy on “patient record flags” (PRFs), federal bureaucrats can classify vets as “threats” based on assessments of their “difficult,” “annoying” and “non-compliant” behavior.

The VA manual says the flags “are used to alert Veterans Health Administration medical staff and employees of patients whose behavior and characteristics may pose a threat either to their safety, the safety of other patients, or compromise the delivery of quality health care.”

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