Marine Veteran Shaun Adkins and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV): ADKINS: I’m Shaun Atkins. I’m a [inaudible] resident of Logan County. I’m a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. And I know we’ve kind of gotten off-track here
My old friend Ed Morrissey of Hot Air liked “Iron Man 3” much better than I did. To recap, I enjoyed the film as popcorn entertainment but found it the weakest of the four films to feature Iron Man thus
Though I’m personally unfamiliar with Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, I did hear the complaints about Tom Cruise being too small to portray the character on film. In the books, Reacher is blond, close to six-and-a-half feet tall, weighs around
The Center for Investigative Reporting’s (CIR) review of internal Veterans Affairs documents reveals that the number of veterans waiting for disability compensation has increased 2000% under President Barack Obama. “The ranks of veterans waiting more than a year for their
Former CIA director David Petraeus, who quit his position last year after revelations about an extra-marital affair, will teach at a California college this year, it was confirmed Thursday. Petraeus, who has already agreed a teaching job in New York
According to a new study of Muslims around Asia and Africa conducted by the Washington-based Pew Forum, over 75% of those Muslims want sharia to rule over family issues and at least 25% of Muslims are in favor of suicide
If you have ever wondered how the entire civilized world could stand by and watch totalitarianism swallow Europe–twice–last week’s pathetic performance by President Barack Obama on the subject of Syria was a grim reminder. Last year, he promised that “any
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: Syria calls chemical weapons claims a ‘barefaced lie’ UK’s David Cameron says that ‘the lessons of Iraq have been learned’ Qatar and Saudi Arabia funneling money and weapons to Syria jihadists Future of Korea’s
(AP) Boston bomb suspect moved; FBI probe shifts focusBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and EILEEN SULLIVANAssociated PressBOSTONBoston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center while FBI agents shifted the focus of their investigation
(AP) – Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Demonstrators in Jordan protest American troop presence Jordan’s King Abdullah and Obama meet to discuss Syria Sunni Jihadists pour into Syria Demonstrators in Jordan protest American troop presence Anti-American protesters in Amman, Jordan on
(AP) – In a rare reunion, the five living American presidents gathered in Dallas Thursday to honor one of their own at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. The presidents — Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George
Presidential historian and CBS News commentator Douglas Brinkley gave an interview to Media Matters for America on the press attention being paid to the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. Apparently willing to lend his credentials and authority
(AFP) – Former US president George W. Bush says he remains “comfortable” with the decision to invade Iraq, even as a new spate of bloody violence hit the country and rocked politics in Baghdad. Bush told ABC News in an
U.N. Human Rights Council Palestine monitor Richard Falk is arguing that the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out in “retribution” for U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, “American global dominion,” and supposed Israeli influence of American foreign policy. Concerning
In a recent ABC/Washington Times poll, former President George W. Bush’s approval rating is at 47%–a statistical dead heat with current President Barack Obama, whose approval is at 48%. This means Bush’s approval is up from lows around 33% when
The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has now admitted that he and his older brother Tamerlan were indeed behind the bombings: Dzhokhar was read his Miranda warnings on Monday. UPDATE: The Boston Globe
(AP) – Iraqis braved the fear of violence on Saturday to vote in the first election since the U.S. military withdrawal, though delayed voting in some parts of the country and an apparently lackluster turnout elsewhere has cast doubt about
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces were hunting in a western province for the most senior member of Saddam Hussein’s inner circle who has been on the run since the 2003 invasion, security sources said on Thursday. Troops backed by
The Obama Administration cut the budget for domestic bomb prevention by 45%, according to former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection Robert Liscouski. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Liscouski said under President George W. Bush the Department
I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for “anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag” in the Boston area.
Carlos Arredondo, the man photographed by media comforting a wounded victim of the Boston Marathon bombing terror attacks, has experience with tragedy before: his son, Alex, was killed by terrorists in Iraq in 2004, at age 20. When Carlos as
While Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood condemned the bombing of the Boston Marathon in an official statement on Tuesday, senior leader Essam el-Erian engaged in conspiracy theorizing, saying there could be a connection between current world events and the Monday terrorist attack. According
The leader of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group says he was happy about the Boston bombings, saying, “Let the Americans feel the pain we endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people there.” The cleric, Mohammad al-Chalabi,
Early reports indicate the bombs that exploded in Boston Monday afternoon may have been packed with ball bearings which blew through the air like hundreds, if not thousands, of bullets being fired from as many guns. These types of bombs
