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An independent board within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today ruled that a Medicare policy from 1989 that categorically excluded transition-related medical procedures, regardless of medical need, is unreasonable and invalid based on today’s medical science.

In response to this development, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Executive Director Mara Keisling issued the following statement:   Continue reading “Federal Board Overturns Medicare Exclusion of Transition-Related Care”

Yahoo News – by Mike Krumboltz

In a column she wrote for the Daily Beast, Erica Lafferty, who lost her mother in the Newtown, Connecticut, school shootings in 2012, ridicules as “disgusting” recent comments Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher made about the Santa Barbara shootings.

Wurzelbacher, who became something of a celebrity during the 2008 presidential campaign after a debate between President Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, recently wrote an open letter to the parents of the University of California, Santa Barbara, college students who were killed earlier this month.   Continue reading “‘Joe the Plumber’ an out-of-touch gun ‘extremist,’ says Sandy Hook principal’s daughter”

Time – by Belinda Luscombe

People never really recover from the death of a child. How much more difficult, then, is it to deal with the deaths of other children whom your child has killed? Most parents are not able to talk about it publicly. But the statement released by the parents of the young man who killed six other young people at the University of Santa Barbara over the weekend is illuminating.

Elliot Rodger’s mother and father, who were on their way to their son when they heard about the murders and all their worst fears came true, asked a family friend, Simon Astaire, to release a statement to the media.   Continue reading “Elliot Rodger’s Parents Break Silence on Shooting”

Ben Swann – by Joshua Cook

What’s wrong with people? It seems like we’re living in alternate universes with the news reporting on the decline of tea party candidates and RINOs like Lindsey Graham soaring in the polls.

What gives?

The Hill reported that, “Banks are breathing a sigh of relief after established GOP incumbents bested a handful of Tea Party challengers at the polls recently.”   Continue reading “Socialism or Liberty? Which one, South Carolina?”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Well now, this isn’t going to go over well at the criminal’s next union meeting:

An assailant died this week when his cohort’s gun discharged while the cohort pistol-whipped a man on Detroit’s west side, George Hunter reports in the Detroit News. Continue reading “Detroit Thug Offs Partner When Gun Fires As He Pistol-Whips Victim”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

In his highly anticipated new book and movie “America,” conservative author Dinesh D’Souza is warning that Hillary Clinton won’t be a clone of her moderate husband, but will instead take the baton from President Obama to continue radicalizing the country and “undo the nation’s founding ideals.”

“America — Imagine a World Without Her,” published by Regnery and set for release Monday, charges that as students of radical organizer Saul Alinsky, Obama and Clinton could have enough time to “unmake and then remake America” into a nation the founding fathers wouldn’t recognize.   Continue reading “Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘America’ warns Hillary Clinton will ‘finish off’ the country”

Jim Stone Freelance

This is an old rant of mine, but I really think people need to wake up on this topic.

There is absolutely no excuse or reason to construct a home with wood. Yet when you look through the building codes in place all across America, wood is predominantly the only thing allowed even in tornado zones and I beg to question why. Actually, I have the answer but I will get to that later, and the answer came from a building contractor in Utah. The answer is cold hard proof of why you can’t construct a home in America out of solid concrete.   Continue reading “American homes in fact very poor quality”

First Shinseki and now Carney. Everyone seems to be fleeing today.

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama disclosed he’s losing his chief spokesman on the same day that the president came to the White House briefing room to personally announce the resignation of his Veterans Affairs secretary.

It was a Friday not quite like any other recently.   Continue reading “Obama says press secretary Jay Carney resigning”

CNN – by Jen Christensen

Your spouse “had to stay late at work” — are you skeptical? Do you think your friend doesn’t like you if he cancels dinner plans? Do you suspect that your co-worker is putting her ambitions ahead of the team?

Curmudgeons of the world, listen up: This line of negative thinking might actually hurt your health.   Continue reading “Cynicism linked to greater dementia risk, study says”

RT News

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned from his role amidst a major VA scandal, United States President Barack Obama said Friday morning.

During a briefing from the White House press room early Friday, Pres. Obama confirmed that moments earlier he accepted Shinseki’s resignation “with considerable regret.”   Continue reading “Veterangate: Obama announces resignation of VA Secretary Shinseki”

RT News

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) presented its new space capsule, expected to carry up to seven astronauts into space and bring them back to Earth, with the capacity to land anywhere ‘with the accuracy of a helicopter.’

The Dragon V2 (version two) was unveiled in Hawthorne, California on May 29 by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The sleek capsule is the company’s first spacecraft designed for human travel to the International Space Station (ISS) and back. “It really takes things to the next level,” Elon Musk said.   Continue reading “SpaceX founder unveils his ‘future of space travel’ capsule”

RT News

Google has opened a service for European users to request deletion of their data from search engines if they consider their content irrelevant or outdated, a move that followed the ruling of the European court calling for the “right to be forgotten.”

“Certain users can ask search engines to remove results for queries that include their name where those results are inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed,” says the form on a Web page that Google opened late on Thursday for European users.   Continue reading “‘Right to be forgotten’: Google launches form to allow users delete their ‘inadequate’ data”