Ted Cruz: The Senate Will Vote This Year to Repeal 1st Amendment (+video)

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore“This year, I’m sorry to tell you, the United States Senate is going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment,” Senator Ted Cruz stated at a Family Research Council pastors retreat recently.

He states that 41 Democrats are going to attempt to censor political speech, making it illegal for anyone to speak disparagingly about politicians.

“What it says is that politicians in Washington have unlimited constitutional authority to muzzle each and every one of you if you’re saying things the government finds inconvenient,” Cruz said.

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Welcome to Obama’s America — Where Corruption, Scandal and Lawlessness Reign (+video)

Photo Credit: REUTERS / KEVIN LAMARQUE…Welcome to Barack Obama’s America — where corruption, scandal and lawlessness reign, where truth, justice and integrity went right into that same garbage can and make no mistake, you’re next. Folks, it ain’t going to get better. Get ready because ObamaCare will do the same to you. Yesterday, VA Secretary [Eric] Shinseki resigned. So do I feel better? No. Will it bring back our dead veterans? No. Will it bring solace to their families? No. But, not to worry. The president is on it. He’ll make everyone accountable. He will take away their 2014 bonuses. Really? God help us.

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Sarah Palin on Bowe Bergdahl: President Obama ‘Blew It’ (+video)

Photo Credit: Politico By Jonathan Topaz / Politico.

President Barack Obama “blew it again” on foreign policy, Sarah Palin said Monday, slamming the president for the deal that released Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

She cited National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s comments one day earlier that Bergdahl served “with honor and distinction.”

“No, Mr. President, a soldier expressing horrid anti-American beliefs — even boldly putting them in writing and unabashedly firing off his messages while in uniform, just three days before he left his unit on foot — is not ‘honorable service,’” the former Alaska governor wrote in a Facebook post. The New York Post has reported that Bergdahl once emailed his parents from Afghanistan, saying he was “ashamed to be an American.”

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Parents of fallen soldier: Our son died looking for Bergdahl and the military lied to us about it

By Allahpundit / Hot Air.

Their son, Second Lieutenant Darryn Andrews, was also named in Nathan Bradley Bethea’s Daily Beast piece today as one of the men from his battalion killed in action during the search.

If the accusation is true, it wouldn’t be the first time higher-ups tweaked the narrative about how an American soldier died to make it less problematic for the military.

At the time his family say they were told that his men were hunting a Taliban commander and that the truck at the front of their group ended in a hole after being hit by an Improvised Explosive Device.

As the men got out to try and move the truck, a Taliban fighter with a rocket propelled grenade emerged and fired at them.

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Supreme Court Declines Case Of Reporter Seeking to Protect Confidential Source (+video)

Photo Credit: Columbia University / APThe US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the case of a New York Times reporter who is seeking to avoid being forced to reveal a confidential source in testimony in a criminal trial.

The reporter, James Risen, was subpoenaed to testify at the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of disclosing secret intelligence information without authorization to Mr. Risen.

Risen had sought to block his compelled testimony at the trial.

The high court turned down Risen’s petition without comment. The action lets stand a federal appeals court’s decision requiring Risen to testify at the trial. The appeals court rejected Risen’s argument that the courts should recognize a reporter’s privilege against being forced to reveal the identity of a confidential source.

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WATCH: Good Samaritan Puts Car Chase To An End

Photo Credit: Fox News Police were involved in a pursuit of a car Saturday, and dramatic video from a FOX 13 News viewer shows the car speeding across the grass of Founders Park as children frantically move out of the way.

The chase ended around 6:12 p.m. at 1500 S. Banbury Drive in Syracuse, and police officials said a minor had taken the vehicle without permission and officers sought the vehicle on a breach of trust.

The 14-year-old male driving the car is from Sunset and had taken the vehicle from his grandfather in Duchesne County, and the grandfather reported the car stolen, according to a press release from the Syracuse Police Department. Police put out an attempt to locate, and police responded after a tipster spotted the car in Syracuse. The tipster heard the attempt to locate while using a police scanner app on a smart phone.

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Surveillance Cam Captures School Security Guard Repeatedly Punching Wheelchair Bound Student in Head

A security guard at a school in Oakland, California, has been arrested for assaulting a student, who has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair, after he was found in a hallway after class had started. CBS affiliate KPIX 5 reports:

One security officer then ordered the student, identified as freshman Francisco Martinez, to move along and either Martinez didn’t comply or was slow to do so, according to Abdel-Qawi…

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Cruz: GOP Can Empower Grassroots by Ditching Consultants, ‘Soviet-Style Campaigns’ (+video)

Photo Credit: AP / Rick Bowmer, FileSen. Ted Cruz said Saturday that the GOP can bolster its appeal by sticking to its conservative principles and embracing a bottom-up campaign model that empowers grassroots voters.

Speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference, Mr. Cruz said the party must ditch the Washington-centric campaign model and stop listening to the political consultants.

“A lot of Republicans tend to have top-down Soviet-style campaigns,” Mr. Cruz said. “It is very odd for a party that believes in free market that they run campaigns through command and control.”

“That is disempowering and it doesn’t inspire,” Mr. Cruz said. “What is far more effective is having a race built on empowering the grassroots.”

Since being elected in 2012, Mr. Cruz has occasionally butted headed with GOP leaders in Washington, and has become a darling of the tea party and grassroots activists around the country.

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WATCH: Obama Throws Mini Tantrum, Huffs Off After Reporter Asks Him a Question About Syria

Photo Credit: TownHallYesterday at the White House, a female reporter asked President Obama a question about the war in Syria. She asked the question just before Obama announced plans to keep 9800 troops in Afghanistan and as the President was wrapped up a White House science fair…

After Obama finished talking to individual students and posing for pictures with the press, White House correspondent for Real Clear Politics Alexis Simendinger asked him a question about breaking news on the White House’s approach to Syria’s civil war as he prepared to exit the room.

“I’m sorry, we’re doing a science fair – c’mon. C’mon.” Obama said irritably as he turned and walked out of the room.

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WATCH: Denzel Washington Shuts It Down With Inspiring Advice About Christian Faith, Passion and Hard Work

Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington delivered a compelling speech to a group of young actors, and judging by their reaction, it’s a lesson they won’t soon forget.

Washington shared his formula for success: setting goals, consistency, discipline, and never forgetting to thank God.

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SWAT Team Throws a Stun Grenade into a Toddler’s Crib During Drugs Raid Leaving Him in a Coma with Severe Burns

Photo Credit: wsbtv.comA family is in shock after a SWAT team threw a stun grenade into their 19-month-old son’s crib during a midnight drugs raid, leaving the baby in a medically induced coma with severe burns.

Wisconsin mother Alecia Phonesavanh, her husband, Bounkham, and their children including toddler, Bou Jr., were visiting her sister-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia, when police raided the home early Wednesday.

Phonesavanh said officers threw a stun grenade, which landed in the sleeping child’s crib.

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