Imagine that China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, sends one million Chinese troops to invade the United States. Fighting breaks out all over the U.S. as U.S. troops and civilians battle against the Chinese invaders. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, are killed. Meanwhile, China has taken over Florida and declared it an overseas province of China, with Chinese nationals taking over control of the Florida government.   read more

Real median household income has actually fallen by 4.8% since the recession’s end. Even more surprisingly, they found that the decline since June 2009 was larger than the 2.6 percent decline that occurred during the recession. Adding them together, Green and Coder conclude that average household income has fallen 7.2% since December 2007. According to Green, “almost every group is worse off now than it was three years ago.   read more

Pennsylvania Senior Deputy Attorney General Patrick Cawley admitted under oath that the state was unaware of any case of in-person voter fraud having ever been committed in Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania’s Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai said that the voter ID law would help deliver the state for Mitt Romney in November.   read more

The lawsuit targets President Obama’s June 2012 decision to grant “deferred status” to some undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, which would delay immigration enforcement action against them for at least two years, as well as a June 2011 memo by ICE Director John Morton ordering immigration officials to focus scarce resources on dangerous illegal immigrants, such as those with criminal records for violent crimes.   read more

In 2010, the FWS diverted the stream, causing water to no longer flow through the church’s property and interfering “with its exercise of baptisms and religious prayer and meditation,” according to the church’s lawsuit.   read more

Three hundred and eighteen workers at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were arrested and 260 convicted of various crimes in 2011. The charges ranged from smuggling drugs to obtaining child pornography to committing bribery and threats with a deadly weapon. According to a report by the inspector general of DHS, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had the largest percentage of DHS workers who broke the law.   read more

Much of what organized religion does has little to do with charity and more to do with institutional self-preservation and even political activity. In 2008, for example, giving to the Mormon Church spiked while it was playing a crucial role in passing a California ballot measure banning gay marriage.   read more

Section 1502 requires companies to examine their supply chains to determine and disclose if their products contain minerals from the DRC or surrounding countries. SEC officials estimate that section 1502 would cost companies $3 billion to $4 billion initially to comply and another $206 million to $609 million annually for compliance.   read more

Some witnesses stated that Corrie was crushed by a bulldozer, while the IDF concluded that she died after being struck by falling debris. In addition, while the IDF reported that the driver of the bulldozer could not see her, witnesses said there was nothing to obscure the driver’s view.   read more

The 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of a black Baptist church that killed four children in Birmingham wasn’t enough to motivate the U.S. Department of Justice to opening a civil rights unit in Alabama. Nor was the ugly police violence that accompanied the famed 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. But the strict anti-immigration law now haunting Hispanics was apparently the reason for the Justice Department establishing its first-ever civil rights unit in the Crimson Tide state.   read more

Pentecostals base their opposition to women wearing pants on Deuteronomy 22:5, which states, ”The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man.” The corporate motto of Burger King is “Have it your way.”   read more

The summit does not represent the first time that the Sullivan Foundation has assisted Obiang. Last December it honored the dictator with the “Beacon for Africa” award for “exemplary contributions to improving the lives of Africa's most vulnerable citizens.”   read more

Of the second 1,000 who have died, 75% were Caucasian, 90% were enlisted personnel, and half were killed in either Kandahar or Helmand provinces, where the U.S. focused much of the surge in an effort to cripple the Taliban and other forces. Their average age was 26, according to The New York Times.   read more

In 1993, the IRS adopted a rule that limited the deduction for executive compensation at publicly-traded corporations to $1 million per executive. However, the rule exempted compensation that is based on an executive’s performance, which is fully deductible.   read more

The five most popular commemoratives between 2009 and 2011 were: • Christmas Holiday Evergreens (1,811,577,438 sold) • Winter Holidays (1,078,703,956) • Flags of our Nation Series 3 (496,570,600) • Love King and Queen of Hearts (480,160,800) • Adopt a Shelter Pet (389,707,871)   read more

The Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked commercial fishing as the most dangerous job in the country from 2007 to 2010. According to records kept by the Centers for Disease Control, the greatest number of fatalities occurred among Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishers, followed by Atlantic scallop fishers and Alaska salmon fishers.   read more

The cancellation represented the biggest of its kind for the Dreamliner since Boeing began selling it. In March, China Eastern gave up on buying 24 787’s. The manufacturer currently has more than 800 Dreamliners in its inventory.   read more