Pakistan Military respond to attack – Photo Sky News
Sky News is reporting that Taliban gunmen have killed 141 people, including at least 132 children, in a school attack in Peshawar, Pakistan. Nine men stormed the army-run school while around 500 children and teachers were believed to be inside, with many students taking exams at the time.
No statement from the Council of Islamic Relations – Oklahoma has been issued at publication condemning the attack.
Senator Tom Coburn Monday objected to passage of a bill supporters claim would help prevent veterans’ suicides, but would actually do little to actually fix the broken VA health system that is failing to adequately care for veterans. Objecting to such inane, wasteful and mistaken policy is a large part of what Dr. Coburn has always done best.
“Instead of holding VA bureaucrats accountable to ensure existing efforts are meeting the mental health needs of veterans, this bill would duplicate programs the agency has already failed to manage,” Coburn said.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The disability trust fund will be completely exhausted in less than two years, according to the Social Security Board of Trustees. When this happens, the more than 11 million Americans receiving disability benefits will face immediate cuts of nearly 20 percent, unless Congress acts soon.
Today, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) announced the introduction of S. 3003, the Protecting Social Security Disability Act, a bill to improve the integrity of the disability insurance program, support working Americans with disabilities, and protect benefits for current and future generations.
Sen. James Lankford
Washington, DC—Representative James Lankford (R-Okla.) today announced his appointment to four Committees for the upcoming 114th Congress in the U.S. Senate: the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Indian Affairs.
“I am honored to bring our Oklahoma values of common sense, integrity and hard work to these important Senate Committees,” said Lankford. “These key assignments will enable me to promote conservative values within our long-lost appropriations process, encourage efficiency throughout the federal government, and relentlessly demand transparency on behalf of hard-working American taxpayers. The U.S. Senate needs to maintain an Oklahoma perspective on national security, intelligence and counter-terrorism strategies, as well as Native American affairs.”
Don’t tell Rolling Stone or Lena Dunham or others playing victim, but a new report on sexual assault by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officially puts to bed the bogus statistic that one in five women on college campuses are victims of sexual assault. In fact, non-students are 25 percent more likely to be victims of sexual assault than students, according to the data. And the real number of assault victims is several orders of magnitude lower than one-in-five.
The full study, which was published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division within DOJ, found that rather than one in five female college students becoming victims of sexual assault, the actual rate is 6.1 per 1,000 students, or 0.61 percent (instead of 1-in-5, the real number is 0.03-in-5). For non-students, the rate of sexual assault is 7.6 per 1,000