Report: 40% of weapons sent to Afghanistan are unaccounted for – Washington Times
A government oversight agency says the Pentagon has lost track of more than 40 percent of the firearms it has provided to Afghanistan’s security forces, prompting officials to contemplate a “carrot and stick” approach to arming the fledgling military.A Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction report scheduled to be made public Monday says the Pentagon’s […]
Cruz fires up conservatives, says bomb Islamic State ‘back to the Stone Age’ | Fox News
Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, made clear this weekend his foreign policy strategy for dealing with the militant group Islamic State: “bomb them back to the Stone Age.” “They want to go back and reject modernity,” he said. “Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them […]
DNC chair inflicts ‘black eye’ with GOP slap
The chief of the nation’s largest public policy women’s group with 500,000 participating members says when Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz likened a Republican governor’s voting record “to actual physical violence against women,” she went too far. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-story160LeftSide’); }); “It’s a black eye for women leaders. It is a step back […]
Ex-Governor McDonnell and Wife Convicted After Corruption Trial – NYTimes.com
RICHMOND, Va. — Former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of corruption in federal court on Thursday, after a trial that halted the political ascent of the one-time Republican star and peeled back the couple’s private life to the bone.As he was pronounced guilty on 11 counts of conspiracy, bribery […]
Found ‘Reckless’ in Gulf Spill, BP Faces $18 Billion Fine – NYTimes.com
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that BP was grossly negligent in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that killed 11 workers, spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and soiled hundreds of miles of beaches.“BP’s conduct was reckless,” United States District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier wrote in […]
NBC’s Brian Williams: Obama ‘Appeared to Be Clear and Unambiguous’ on ISIS | Media Research Center
On Wednesday night’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams ignored President Obama’s mixed signals regarding how his administration intends to deal with the threat of the Islamic terrorist group ISIS as he highlighted how Obama declared he would “degrade and destroy” ISIS, but omitted remarks from Obama that ISIS can be contained to the point […]
» Make a Decision, Mr. President » Commentary — GOPUSA
Your on-the-job-training as the leader of the Free World has been over for several years. I know it still comes as a shock to you that you’re the president of the United States. A lot of us feel the same way. But you really are the Prez. So take off the training wheels and golf […]
Bill O’Reilly: BillOReilly.com Column – Crying Wolf, Crying Racism
“It’s time to take back America,” the speaker shouted at a Labor Day rally. This particular screamer was not a Tea Partier or a rabid Republican, but the Vice President of the United States. Just who does Joe Biden want to take the country back from? His party controls the White House, the Senate, and […]
Police ‘Request’ Records From NY Gun Shop – Conservative Byte
The owner of a New York gun shop says he was given 24 hours to comply with a “request” from the New York State Police to turn over records of all customers who have purchased “bullet button” AR-15 rifles since the passage of the hastily-passed SAFE Act in 2013. Joseph F. Palumbo, owner of the […]