The U.S. Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense on Tuesday, ending an acrimonious nominations process and giving President Barack Obama a victory as he fills his second-term cabinet, AFP reports. Senators voted 58-41, with four Republicans joining the majority Democrats to confirm the Republican former senator to replace outgoing Pentagon chief Leon […]
Pete Marovich/ZUMA Press/Newscom The White House reportedly agreed on Friday to provide the Senate Intelligence Committee with documents on the terrorist attack against the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last September. Getting to the bottom of the Benghazi affair has been like pulling teeth ever since that fateful night that cost the lives of […]
If you had to cut your family’s budget, where would you cut? Would you immediately start starving your children and stop wearing shoes? Of course not. You would look at the extras in your life—whether they were coffee shop lattes, movie tickets, or restaurant meals. It’s a good thing the President wouldn’t be handling your […]
WHY WOMEN ESPECIALLY NEED AR-15s Girl, 22, FLAYS Piers Morgan on Need for Semi-autos and High Capacity Magazines STOP FEINSTEIN’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL, UNCONSCIONABLE GUN BAN BILL! URGENT: Desperate diehard Democrats are chomping at the bit to grab our guns and are right now waging a war on women – except this time it’s on women’s constitutional […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded the 14 senators who wrote a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday, urging him to withdraw the nomination of former senator Chuck Hagel for the post of Defense Secretary. In a letter to President Obama, Senators Cornyn (R-TX), Inhofe (R-OK), Graham (R-SC), Wicker (R-MS), Vitter (R-LA), […]
House Cloakroom: February 25 – March 1 Analysis: Sequester week begins in Washington! The House returns from a recess week to take up the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization. The Senate has passed a flawed reauthorization bill. The Senate version contains an unconstitutional expansion of tribal sovereignty, not to mention spending on programs of questionable […]
Photo credit: Newscom President Obama claims that unless Congress raises taxes to undo the imminent automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) would be forced to reduce security measures, leaving travelers and the airways vulnerable and increasing wait times at airports. Is there really not a dime that could be cut […]
Pete Marovich/ZUMA Press/Newscom Senator James Inhofe (R–OK) has sent a letter urging members to vote against confirming former Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE) for Defense Secretary. This letter follows on the heels of the letter from a group of 14 Senators urging President Obama to withdraw the nomination. The Senate returns from recess Monday, February 25, […]
Photo: Patsy Lynch/Polaris/Newscom President Obama’s Chief of Staff Denis McDonough recently said of former-Senator Chuck Hagel (R–NE), “I think he’ll be a great Defense Secretary. This is a guy who volunteered to go to Vietnam…heavily decorated when he was there, well performing when he was there, and everything since.” Members of the U.S. Senate, policy […]
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa (Photo: EFE) If cancer revokes President Hugo Chavez’s mandate for indefinite rule in Venezuela, it will leave leadership of the radical-left, anti-liberty Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) in Latin America up for grabs. New faces will inevitably emerge. Chavez’s vice president, the uncharismatic Nicolas Maduro, will most likely runVenezuela in the near future, […]
