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Obama’s Surge: 450 Additional Non-Combat Troops To Iraq

According to the White House Press Secretary, Obama will authorize up to 450 additional troops to Iraq to “train, advise, and assist” Iraqis efforts to battle ISIS. The personnel boost will bring the total of U.S. forces in Iraq of up to 3,350, and is expected to occur this summer.

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Rubio vs. Clinton: Suddenly Being in Touch With Ordinary American Life is Bad

It’s pretty rich to watch Democrat media drag out an Obama-donor financial analyst to critique the Rubio family budget. At least the Rubios have a budget, which is more than congressional Democrats can say. Let me know when Senator and Mrs. Rubio start using continuing resolutions and “cromnibus” techniques to buy stuff, with a vague plan to force their neighbors to pay all the bills when they find it impossible to rack up more debt.

William Mayville

Bing West: Pentagon’s ISIS Strategy a ‘Mess’

On June 5, at a Pentagon press conference, Lieutenant General John W. Hesterman III, Combined Forces Air Component Commander, vigorously championed both the success of the bombing in Iraq and Syria, and the Defense Department’s method for controlling air strikes. The briefing illustrated how, as in Vietnam, the military becomes politicized and loses focus.

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Obama Admits He Put Executive Amnesty On Hold

“I made a decision, which I think is the right one, that we should not accept applications till the legal status of this is clarified,” Obama said, admitting that although he was “frustrated” with the judge blocking his legislation, he didn’t want to put illegal immigrants at a disadvantage.

<> on January 16, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Farage to Obama: Butt Out of Brexit!

U.S. President Barack Obama has attracted the ire of UKIP leader Nigel Farage after advising Britain not to leave the European Union. Obama – whose interests in the UK staying in the EU are predominantly centered around the Trans-Atlantic Trade

Israeli PM Netanyahu Meets With President Obama At White House

Who is Selling America a Bill of Goods: Iran, Obama, or Both?

The idiom “selling one a bill of goods” conveys the message a buyer is being deceived—i.e., he is not getting that for which he thought he had bargained. Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed the occurrence of three events where this idiom appropriately can be applied.