Photo Of Teary-Eyed Haitian Immigrant Graduating From West Point Goes Viral For All The Right Reasons

Army Second Lieutenant Alix Schoelcher Idrache awoke Tuesday to find an image of him during his West Point graduation Saturday making the rounds on social media after the photo, taken by Army Staff Sergeant photographer Vito T. Bryant, was posted to the U.S. Military Academy Facebook page early Tuesday morning. Carbonated.TV has the scoop: “I…

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State Department Audit Reveals Clinton Didn’t Adhere To Government Policy

The State Department inspector general has determined former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t adhere to her own agency’s email-records policy when she withheld communications pertinent to her government job, according to a report. The Washington Examiner has the story:   “Secretary Clinton should have preserved any federal records she created and received on her…

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Jenny Beth Martin: IRS ‘abused its power and worked deliberately to silence critics of the Obama administration’

Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin in a recent column for The Washington Times brings the proverbial hammer down on IRS power broker John Koskinen for stonewalling – and worse! – congressional investigation into the agency targeting scandal that set its sights on President Obama’s political adversaries. Read the commentary in The Washington Times: This…

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Jenny Beth Martin: Facebook seems to be in ‘a state of constant, continual improvement’ after meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and conservative leaders at Facebook HQ

ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO and Co-founder Jenny Beth Martin who attended the meeting last week between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and conservative leaders, released the following statement today lending her impressions from the meeting last week. “Facebook researched historical data related to the allegations and interviewed people who were involved as employees, contractors, and…

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Veterans Affairs secretary: ‘When you go to Disney, do they measure the number of hours you wait in line or what’s important?’

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald Monday apparently downplayed the severity of the wait-list scandals that have plagued the department, left veterans without timely care and, in some cases, been the difference between life and death – a metric, the secretary implied, that should be trashed altogether. The Washington Examiner has the details: “When you got…

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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 5/22/16

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CALENDAR: The House comes back into session on Monday, May 23, and will be in session through Thursday, with last votes expected no later than 3 PM. Then the House will take the following week off for the Memorial Day District Work Period, and return on Tuesday, June 7. The Senate will return to session…

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