
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, who is being supported by Russia and Iran, is reportedly starving the residents of a besieged mountain town located northwest of Syria’s capital, Damascus, as the freezing and hungry townspeople prepare to endure a cold winter.
by Edwin Mora7 Jan 2016, 2:56 PM PST0

Obama faces a quandary—the NRA is gaining support and gun control is losing it.
by AWR Hawkins6 Jan 2016, 8:59 PM PST0

The notion that the Obama administration’s talking points increasingly sound like they are coming out of Tehran was further solidified this week, culminating with an op-ed published by Bloomberg confirming that the State Department acquiesced to Iran’s demand to reject new missile sanctions.
by Adelle Nazarian6 Jan 2016, 8:36 PM PST0

The Department of Veterans Affairs racked up over 10,000 serious breaches of privacy since 2011, making it “the nation’s most prolific violator of laws protecting patients’ personal medical information,” as the Washington Examiner puts it.
by John Hayward6 Jan 2016, 12:36 PM PST0

In the course of announcing numerous new executive gun controls on January 5, President Obama said, “I believe in the Second Amendment.” He even said he believes the Second Amendment “guarantees a right to bear arms.”
But these declarations of belief in the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms are challenged and undone by the fact that this very same president has heaped praise upon countries that availed themselves of confiscatory policies to get rid of guns altogether.
by AWR Hawkins6 Jan 2016, 10:28 AM PST0

All six terrorists who attacked one of India’s largest air force bases near the country’s border with Pakistan over the weekend have been killed, the Indian defense minister said Tuesday, noting that soldiers were still combing through the facility looking for explosives.
by Edwin Mora6 Jan 2016, 7:20 AM PST0

Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor host Bill O’Reilly praised President Obama’s executive actions to expand background checks.
by AWR Hawkins5 Jan 2016, 8:25 PM PST0

At the top of his Tuesday broadcast, Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly reacted to President Barack Obama’s executive order announcement regarding firearms and the added restrictions Obama wants to put in place in the name of
by Jeff Poor5 Jan 2016, 7:45 PM PST0

President Obama’s statement on gun control Tuesday included an attempt to dismiss claims he ultimately wants to undermine the 2nd Amendment.
by John Sexton5 Jan 2016, 7:06 PM PST0

Columnist Charles Krauthammer stated that President Obama is “not asleep at the wheel. He’s not at the wheel at all” in proposing gun control while “We’re in the middle of a meltdown in the Middle East” on Tuesday’s broadcast of the
by Ian Hanchett5 Jan 2016, 6:39 PM PST0

President Obama announced sweeping new executive orders on gun regulations Tuesday at the White House. Within moments of those remarks, Republican Congressional offices issued press statements criticizing Obama’s unilateral moves to tighten gun restrictions. Left out of any Republican statements, however, was any promise to cut funding for Obama’s actions. No matter what the White House may propose, Congress still exercises the power of the purse.
by Mike Flynn5 Jan 2016, 4:09 PM PST0

An American Service member was killed and two others wounded Tuesday in southern Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, where an American medevac helicopter reportedly went down, according to the U.S. and NATO forces.
by Edwin Mora5 Jan 2016, 3:40 PM PST0

During his January 5 speech explaining “the fierce urgency of now” and the need for executive gun control to save the day, President Obama also admitted that two thirds of his scary gun death statistics are suicides.
by AWR Hawkins5 Jan 2016, 3:31 PM PST0

Tuesday, while announcing several executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence, President Barack Obama teared up. The president stopped to wipe away tears as he said, “From every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from
by Pam Key5 Jan 2016, 10:07 AM PST0

President Obama wiped away tears during his gun control speech, sharing his anger at Congress and gun rights groups for blocking gun control.
by Charlie Spiering5 Jan 2016, 9:57 AM PST0

The Obama administration is expected to release 17 detainees as early as next week, including “al Qaeda followers” who have been cleared for release from the Guantánamo Bay prison by a board established by the president.
by Edwin Mora5 Jan 2016, 7:32 AM PST0

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett insisted President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive action on guns would be well within his authority and that it is the fault of Congress for the need of Obama
by Jeff Poor5 Jan 2016, 7:29 AM PST0

The Christmas holidays are a busy time for Judicial Watch (JW) because corrupt politicians and bureaucrats often leak embarrassing scandal information during a time when many Americans are not focused on the news (and many reporters are on vacation). Sure enough, we received a Christmas document dump from the Secret Service about Obama’s travel costs. If the hope was to bury the information, it failed, as our JW team got the word out and gained headlines across the globe.
by Tom Fitton5 Jan 2016, 6:10 AM PST0

Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, claims that unnamed Americans have tried to arrange a prisoner swap to secure the freedom of captive Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian.
by John Hayward4 Jan 2016, 9:20 PM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) ratcheted up his attack on fellow contender Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) Monday by comparing his foreign policy worldview to that of President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
by Michelle Fields4 Jan 2016, 8:01 PM PST0

A witness of the Iraqi army’s efforts to seize back Ramadi described a macabre scene, telling CNN dogs were eating the heads of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists killed in the fight, while those who survived are trying to use civilians, including kids, as “human shields.”
by Edwin Mora4 Jan 2016, 7:23 PM PST0

On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals that the Department of Defense and Department of Justice have been directed to expand their use of “smart gun” technology.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 6:59 PM PST0

On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals there is no numerical threshold of sales that a private seller has to cross before being considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.”
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 5:22 PM PST0

As the White House begins to hint that President Barack Obama would like to visit Cuba before his term is over, a political prisoner freed and re-arrested due to the U.S.-Cuba “normalization” deal has lost cognitive functions as he struggles to survive his 87th day on a hunger strike.
by Frances Martel4 Jan 2016, 2:33 PM PST0

Author and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Dr. Kenneth M. Pollack stated Saudi Arabia believes that under the Obama administration the US is shifting allegiance to Iran, and are frightened over the US withdrawing from the Middle East while cautioning that he
by Ian Hanchett4 Jan 2016, 2:11 PM PST0