The University of Toledo Student Government held a secret vote on February 5th which shut down a resolution brought by a group of students to repeal the concealed carry ban on campus and restore their Second Amendment rights. The resolution
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced that he has scheduled a committee vote Tuesday on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the post of Secretary of Defense. Sen. John
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, plans to seek a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of defense during a meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the committee said
According to preliminary reports, a shooter killed two people and wounded two more at the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday morning. Although the shooter had to force his way through a checkpoint to get into the
The bipartisan comity of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has served the country well for several decades, is in danger as Democrats vow to push through Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel on party lines. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ),
In a rather unsettling situation, an Iranian-American is functioning as an interlocutor between Iran’s leaders and the U.S. Defense Department. Amir Mohammad Estakhri, who lives in Southern California, has been an interpreter for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for interviews Ahmadinejad
Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, this morning, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Bob Schieffer that unless he gets full disclosure from the White House about what directives the President ordered on the night of the attack in Benghazi, he
Obama is gearing up to sign off “on an internal review of U.S. nuclear weapons strategy” that contains a directive cutting our nuclear arsenal by a third. The directive was created last year, and reports indicate that political advisers in
Amid reports that former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) may be withdrawing his name from consideration for Secretary of Defense, one of Hagel’s aides has issued a clear statement: “There is absolutely no truth to the notion that Senator Hagel might
Remember when the mainstream media mocked a politician who had to attend five colleges to graduate, whose academic record was less than outstanding, and whose subsequent success was proof of nothing? Remember how that was supposed to be a threat
This 2008 book event is a speech that was not reported to the Senate (which requested transcripts of all of Hagel’s speeches for the past several years). Chuck Hagel, the nominee for Secretary of Defense, told the Senate that any
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s confirmation hearing for Defense Secretary late last month drew gasps from Beltway insiders. How could a candidate for such an important position be so comically unprepared, so unable to defend himself against a series of tough
President Obama is considering naming Ernest J. Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy in apparent recognition that oil and gas development is the best potential revenue source available for the Administration to avoid the type of austerity spending cuts
(AP) – Syrian troops backed by warplanes battled rebels for control of a key highway in Damascus Saturday, a day after opposition forces cut the strategic artery as part of what they say are efforts to lay the groundwork for
A utility worker and homeowner both defended themselves in separate incidents with their guns against teenagers who tried to rob them. In Detroit, MI two teens, 16-and 17-year old brothers, tried to rob two men working on a public lighting
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said in his Senate testimony Thursday that he and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey supported arming Syria’s rebels, but President Obama rejected the idea. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former
According to a new Quinnipiac poll released Friday, Hillary Clinton is the most popular political figure in the US. 61% of voters have a favorable view of Clinton, against 34% with an unfavorable view. These are her best polling numbers
(AP) – Germany’s education minister resigned Saturday after a university decided to withdraw her doctorate, finding that she plagiarized parts of her thesis — an embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government as it prepares for elections later this year. Merkel
The U.S. Navy on Thursday released the service record of Christopher Dorner, who is wanted in connection with three shootings in the Los Angeles area. Dorner was commissioned in 2002, and his loss date was Feb. 1, 2013. During his
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Hong Kong’s poor people live in metal cages Panetta: A cyber attack may be the next Pearl Harbor Comments and questions on the Libor-rigging scandal Generation-Xers versus Boomers Egypt’s PM warns women to clean
The revelations that came out of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week in regards to the Benghazi attack will be a turning point in this investigation. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified that he was not in contact with President
Welcome to week three of the NHL Power 10. Believe it or not, we are going to hit the quarter pole of this shortened season this weekend! There is still plenty of hockey to be played, but with almost a
If the chances of Chuck Hagel withdrawing his nomination as Secretary of Defense are truly “50-50,” as Thomas E. Ricks of Foreign Policy suggests, then time is running out for Democrats to push a vote through the Senate. With each passing
In response to Nick Gillespie’s brilliant insight about journalists’ hypocrisy on drones: Someone commented on Twitter, I think maybe Kirsten Powers, that libertarians seem to be the only ones with any consistency on this subject. We expect partisans to be
Democrats’ latest defense of Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation as Secretary of Defense has bogged down in the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the argument that the Republicans are holding Hagel to a higher standard than any previous nominee. In fact,
