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Andrew Leslie, defence policy adviser to Justin Trudeau and 2015 Liberal candidate. One of Canada’s most high-profile military leaders claimed more than $72,000 in expenses, including real estate fees, for a move from his Ottawa home to another residence in the city after he retired...

Turley on Expansion of Presidential Powers: "We Have Become a Nation of Enablers" | Video | RealClearPolitics

A tiny bug that has mystified Texas farmers and agriculture researchers is threatening to eat a big hole in the state's economy. According to a news release from Texas A&M University, the insect of unknown origin - which measures about 1/16 inch - is poised to inflict big damage to the...

Bystanders in a California convenience store tackled a man who was choking his girlfriend and restrained him until law enforcement officials were able to sort out the situation. And it was all caught on video. The incident began Wednesday morning outside the Flower Street Market in...

A local politician from the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Jews of destroying Russia. The accusation by Oleg Bolychev, a legislator from the ruling United Russia party at the regional parliament in Kaliningrad, was made in the parliament on February 6, according to the...

via Fark: Not to be outdone, a different zoo in Denmark is now saying that they too have a baby giraffe that needs whackin' (CNN) -- Could another zoo in Denmark kill a giraffe named Marius? To some animal lovers, it sounds too terrible to be true, but zoo leaders say it's anything but a...

So it turns out that Ray Nagin, the Democratic ex-mayor of New Orleans best known for his furious denunciations of the Bush administration in their response to Hurricane Katrina, wasn’t exactly acting with the city’s best interests at heart himself. The guy left office in 2010 with...

Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index measures the state of the free press in countries around the world. The U.S. fell 13 places to No. 46 thanks to the conviction of a WikiLeaks' informant, the effort to track down and punish NSA leaker Edward Snowden and the Justice...

Ukrainians have lately barreled across American headlines with a display of their Olympic-level Molotov cocktail tossing skills and talent for fabricating catapults, provoking some to ask, what the hell is happening over there? While many articles recapitulate the basics—police are clashing...

Stuff you won't see much of on the MSM: Liberals have angrily denounced Justice Thomas’ recent reflection that the worst treatment he’s ever endured has come at the hands of “northern liberal elites,” rather than whites in the deep south during the Jim Crow era. Northern liberal elites...

One of the largest and most meticulous studies of mammography ever done, involving 90,000 women and lasting a quarter-century, has added powerful new doubts about the value of the screening test for women of any age. It found that the death rates from breast cancer and from all causes were...

Just a few short years after the Canadian and Ontario government bailed out General Motors and Chrysler, a familiar scenario is playing out along Highway 401. Chrysler is reported to be negotiating with both the Ontario and Canadian federal government regarding subsidies for their Windsor...

via sda tips: It did not go very well at all. She was on there for less than hour and answered 10 puffball questions. Someone in her office obviously underestimated the intelligence of Reddit users as there were some very good questions asked of her. I’m Kathleen Wynne, Premier of...

Last week, two congressional committees issued a little-noticed report detailing how Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, and Health and Human Services officials conspired to create a massive new entitlement not authorized anywhere in federal law. In the summer of 2012, the House...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — There was a ripple of discontent over a gay rights issue at the Sochi Games on Tuesday, but it had nothing to do with Russia. Several American doubles lugers said they were irritated by a popular Canadian video celebrating diversity that pokes fun at their sport...

The question of Free Will has challenged the best minds throughout human history. In the ancient Sanskrit texts Free Will is an enigma, a veiled mystery bewildering to most westerners. The Bhagavad Gita is the brilliant essence of the earlier texts, and even directly quotes various...

Learn from the mistakes of others Switzerland has announced that it will extend immigration limits to all European Union countries amid pressure from the political far-right. Switzerland, which is not an EU member, already has a quota in place for eight Eastern European members that joined...

:lol: Put all the "Stephen Harper is retiring" rumours to bed. An anonymous source has sent the Toronto Star a "secret document" laying out the Conservative Party re-election strategy for 2015. The 70-page slide show presentation to the Conservative party’s national council last weekend by...

Abstract Palestinians are not the Indigenous people of the Holy Land The Palestinian narrative, which is now widely accepted as a fact of history around the world, is the result of a systematic indoctrination through propaganda. The Palestinians are neither the "Indians" nor the...

That's a shame. A man was killed late Sunday afternoon during an apparent home invasion robbery. Dispatchers with the Hayward Police Department received a call at 5:28 p.m. regarding a man who had been shot during a possible home invasion robbery in the 21000 block of Western Boulevard...