The Washington Standard

28 Christians Murdered while on a Field Trip in Egypt
There are stories that it hurts to write. With so much bad news permeating our 24-hour news cycle, we become inured to much of the horror and it’s surprising (and sad) what we can become accustomed to. However,…

Here’s How Easily an Epidemic Like Ebola Can Turn Into a Pandemic
Remember the soothing words of the World Health Organization about the Ebola outbreak in the Congo? Don’t worry, they said. It’s in a remote village that doesn’t even have real roads, they said. Except, the problem is, now…

Med Professor: It’s Unfair To Slap ‘Other Than Honorable’ Discharge On Service Members With PTSD
A professor of medical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center said slapping an other than honorable discharge on a service member who acts up because of post-traumatic stress disorder is unfair, after a report found most service members…

Lawmaker Demands Trump Admin Hand Over Unredacted Report On Phishing Email Attacks
A House committee asked the Interior Department Thursday to hand over an unredacted copy of a newly-released report detailing how more than 100 employees were “compromised” in a phishing email attack. Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of…

DHS chief: If you knew what I knew about terror, you’d ‘never leave the house’
Sixteen years after the September 11th attacks, this is where we are. And for the past 15 years, a handful of us have worked tirelessly to educate, warn and prepare freedom-loving peoples for the threat through our activism,…

Economist Who Predicted US Housing Bubble Issues Warning: “We Probably Will Have A Recession Next Year”
There’s really only one thing that has been keeping the US economy from melting down since the last recession. It’s the abundance of cheap money that has been flushed into the economy by the Federal Reserve. Until recently…

Keeping Memorial Day Memorable
What if I asked you, “Do you feel patriotic paying taxes to fund the central government’s nationalization of the banks, the insurance industry, the automobile industry, the health care industry, and now local police forces or the use…








