Vitamin C can kill multidrug-resistant TB in the lab, scientists have found. The surprise discovery may point to a new way of tackling this increasingly hard-to-treat infection, the US study authors from Yeshiva University say in Nature Communications. An estimated 650,000 people worldwide have multidrug-resistant TB. Studies are now needed to see if a treatment that works using the same action… Read more →
(Photo: Wikipedia) With new reports today that the Obama Department of Justice leaked documents intended to smear a whistle blower in the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal, it is now more obvious than ever that this administration has, in the words of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), created a “culture of intimidation” that stretches from the White House down to… Read more →
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Denis McDonough, President Obama’s chief of staff, was among a handful of senior aides informed of the Treasury inspector general’s findings that the IRS was targeting conservative groups for heightened scrutiny in their tax-exempt application process – but insisted he did not intervene in the “ongoing” investigation, or tell the president.
A detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official’s claim that the agency’s scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonprofit applications, showing the practice started well before the forms started flooding in. The piece in The Washington Post disputed a central claim that Lois Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, and other IRS officials made… Read more →
(Photo: Breitbart) Klamath Falls, Oregon—Law enforcement officials thwarted a Mexican cartel-linked narcotics operation with a number of raids in the early morning hours of May 16, 2013. Officers made at least 38 arrests, then seized approximately four pounds of methamphetamine, over fifty firearms, and an undetermined amount of cash. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, the Oregon Department of… Read more →
Karl Rove on the how Benghazi and the IRS and Department of Justice-AP scandals threaten Obama’s ability to govern.
(Photo: Wikipedia) Several well-known religious organizations say they were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, including the ministry founded by famed evangelist Billy Graham and a 180-year-old Baptist newspaper, Fox News has learned. Among the ministries targeted are the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritan’s Purse and theBiblical Recorder – the news journal of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. The revelations seem to indicate the… Read more →
It’s a deadly turf war: rival Mexican drug cartels battling for control of smuggling routes, power and money. The violence is not just coming here, it is here. Government’s first job is to secure the border … and Barack Obama has failed. Now he’s using that failure as an excuse to force more gun control laws on the lawful Arizonans,… Read more →
Protests and rallies broke into clashes with Israeli security forces Wednesday as Palestinians mark Nakba, or the “day of catastrophe.” Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
(Photo: IRS.gov)“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . .cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” — Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974 The… Read more →
