On this morning’s edition of Washington Journal, Leo Shane, the congressional reporter for the Military Times, received a surprise when he fielded calls from veterans and active duty military members on the VA healthcare system. One of those veterans, a
Monday in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel blamed “partisan political narrow interests” for blocking modernization of the U.S. military. Earlier in the year, Hagel delivered the Pentagon’s fiscal 2015 budget to Congress which
On Monday while visiting with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Pope Francis made an unscheduled stop at the terrorism victims’ memorial. The pope leaned against the wall engraved with the names of Israeli victims
On Monday, fueling the 2016 presidential speculation, conservative commentator Dr. Ben Carson released a video titled “Can a doctor be president?” Dr. Carson pointed out doctors are trained to be rational and make evidence based decisions in the video… Follow
In January 2008, George W. Bush signed an NRA-supported bill into law to improve and increase incentives for states to share mental health data with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The money for the improvements was spread
Right Sector presidential candidate Dmytro Yarosh barely received 1% of the vote in Ukraine’s Sunday election, but Russian TV told Russians he was leading the polls. From Radio Free Europe: The video shows Yarosh ahead with 37% of the vote
No one can deny that Pope Francis is a man who walks the walk. While many disagree with his neo-socialist world-view, who can feel anything but respect for a world leader who eschews the perks of office to champion the
Amid the revelation that more than 36,000 illegal immigrants were released onto U.S. soil by government officials in 2013, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office in California recently announced that it will no longer hold illegal immigrants in jail. According to a report by CBS
Narjes Modarresi, 32, an Iranian immigrant who moved to Texas, was convicted of capital murder for burying her two month old child alive, reporters Daily Mail. It took a Houston jury only two hours to deliberate before coming back with a
The gas and oil boom has allowed Texas to prosper, but Mexican drug smugglers may also be benefitting from the healthy industry. A significant amount of gas and oil business is conducted on large, private ranches near the Texas-Mexican border. As
On Monday’s “Fox & Friends,” on the Fox News Channel, former Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) commented on the ongoing VA scandal in an appearance to promote his new memoir, “I Heard My Country Calling.” Webb had been much more critical
HOUSTON, Texas–President Barrack Obama nominated San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development on May 23rd in spite of his city’s alleged misuse of funds from that same federal department. The acceptance of the nomination
HOUSTON, Texas–Early voting for the Texas Primary Run-off election ended on Friday with a very low total turnout. After five days of early voting, the total turnout for both the Democrat and Republican run-offs was 313,878 or about 3.62 percent
In an appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday, House Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) spoke about the difficulties he has faced regarding his oversight role in looking into the current VA hospital scandal. “First of
A California billionaire who is dedicating his fortune to pushing greenism on America is hoping that his billions will cajole Florida to vote for Democrat Charlie Crist for Governor this year. Through his Super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, hedge fund
Chicago has had another blood-soaked weekend with shootings and murders occurring across the city. The worst happened Saturday when two were killed and eight wounded in less than 10 hours. The weekend got to an uncharacteristic start when no shootings
Sunday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” segment, moderator John King reported on Democrats unhappiness with President Barack Obama over this handling of the growing Veterans Affairs waiting list scandal. King said the scandal is much more than broken campaign promises saying
*UPDATE 1:45PM* Fighting in Donetsk resumed after a storm cleared the area. AFP reporter Paul Gypteau found a beheaded woman in front of the train station. Body of a beheaded old woman in front of #Donetsk railway station. Unclear what
On May 25 Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.) called for more background checks because California gunman Elliot Rodger passed background checks. King joined Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) last year and “introduced a bill…that would extend background to include most private transactions.”
President Obama, who paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, was snubbed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he turned down an invitation to meet with the President at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul. The two leaders’ relationship has
JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis honored Jews killed in the Holocaust, kissing the hands of six survivors in an emotional ceremony at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial on Monday as he capped a Mideast trip with poignant stops at some of
A quip which has been doing the rounds on Twitter the last few days concerns the official projection of how many seats UKIP stands to win in Westminster next year, based on its stellar performance in the local and European
CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes doesn’t in any way resemble the site of roiling class conflict. It’s a French Riviera playground for the 1 percent, a sun-dappled land of velvet ropes. Yet at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which came
On Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told fill-in moderator Martha Raddatz that the revelations of deficiencies at Veterans Administration hospitals, which have been said to have caused numerous deaths
Many Democrats – Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) among them – have shamelessly attacked the NRA and pushed for more gun control in the wake of the heinous May 23 Santa Barbara attacks. To do this they
