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GOOD: The Grassroots “Pledge to Impeach” Movement is Exploding

A petition to impeach President Obama has garnered tens of thousands of signatures as the grassroots movement to remove him from office gains momentum.

Pentagon to shutdown over 20 facilities across Europe

The US military announced Friday it was closing down 21 military facilities in half a dozen countries across Europe, a move the Pentagon said would trim $60 million in fat annually.

Which Senator has passed the Most Laws?

A not-so-shocking fact of lawmaking is that you are expected to make laws. So, which lawmaker can boast that he or she has been behind the passage of more laws in Congress than any colleagues?

Out of the current class of senators, the honor of Most Laws Passed goes to Sen. Orrin Hatch, according to data from the Library of Congress. Hatch has sponsored or cosponsored 742 bills that eventually became law. For comparison’s sake, the median senator, David Vitter, has seen 78 of the bills he sponsored or cosponsored enacted.

Hatch has served in the Senate for 37 years. He’s supported bills as diverse as a resolution to posthumously restore citizenship rights to Jefferson Davis (enacted by Jimmy Carter in 1978), to the Songwriter Equity Act, which would allow songwriters to be paid the “fair market value” of their work (Hatch himself has dabbled in songwriting). “I’ve always found that to be a successful legislator you need to fight for what you believe in and never give up trying to do the right thing,” Hatch said in a statement to National Journal. “I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues to support legislation that is in the best interest of Utah and our country.”

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/which-senator-has-passed-the-most-laws-20140516

Donetsk self-defense forces give Kiev troops 24 hours to withdraw

Slavyansk self defense forces at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Slavyansk. (RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresenskiy)

Syria conflict: Deadly blast near Turkey border crossing

The area around the Bab al-Salam crossing has been bombed on previous occasions

Utah lawmaker moves to disarm BLM, IRS, says ‘They’re not paramilitary units’

Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah, concerned about the armed agents that surrounded Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s property, is mulling a measure to cut funding for any “paramilitary units” that work for the Bureau of Land Management, the Internal Revenue Service and other federal regulatory agencies.

U.S. ‘Global Hawk’ Drone Joins Search for Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

French Journalist Murdered in Central African Republic

FRED DUFOUR / AFP – Getty Images file

French journalist Camille Lepage in Bangui, Central African Republic,
on Feb. 19.

Black Republican Group Calls for the Impeachment of Barack Obama

The movement to impeach President Obama seems to be moving full steam ahead. While many on the right have felt that the president deserved impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors” he committed long ago, the recent explosion of scandals including Benghazi, IRS targeting, and Fast and Furious lend serious credibility to taking that course of action.