Posted with permission from Brigadier General John E. Michel, USAF – Commanding General, NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan; Commander, 438 Air Expeditionary Wing. This article was co-written with my good friend, actor and activist Ken Wahl. “You can’t patch a wounded soul
The Somali jihadist group Al Shabaab is threatening the nation of Kenya with an increased terror presence in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, vowing to kill one Kenyan girl “for every Somali girl” killed in anti-terror initiatives in Somalia. In a
What do you know? The Cannes Film Festival that yearly transforms that quiet French Riviera town into a colliding cacophony of celebrity and cinema, is once again pinpointing with amazing precision the most artistically pre-eminent and therefore most commercially viable
Silicon Valley is being snubbed for Texas by millenials around the world, who are enticed by the Lone Star State’s plentiful, lucrative opportunities. Texas’ booming gas and oil industry provides young transplants with the chance to find success as oil barons, businessmen, investors,
CANNES, France (AP) — Ryan Gosling debuted as a film director at the Cannes Film Festival with a stylish, theatrical fable that critics quickly slammed. The first screening of Gosling’s “Lost River” played Tuesday for one of the festival’s most
Even in light of the firestormthat brought down metadata giant inBloom,data tracking of children is still here. Nationwide,states are required by law to collect and store student data as part of theprime directive to move students down the college and
Using criteria which some American constitutional scholars may consider incorrect – or at least conveniently Scandinavian — a two-man academic study financed by Norway’s foreign ministry has come to the conclusion that the Norwegian constitution is better than the United
It’s Texas teacher climate survey season compliments of Rep. MikeVillarreal (D-San Antonio) and the 83rd Legislature that pushed through HouseBill 2012 in 2013. The law requires the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to “developan online teaching and learning conditions survey to be administered statewidebiennially to
Could Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have prevented the release of some 36,000 criminal immigrants last year? The limited immigration group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) say there is a good chance the answer is yes. Monday, an internal
Clayton Thomas Kelly, a 28-year-old man from Pearl, MS, snuck into the retirement home of Rose Cochran, the wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), to take secret photographs of her and post them online. Madison, MS, police arrested Kelly late
On Friday, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) postponed a planned documentary on Michael Sam, the first openly gay NFL player to be drafted. ESPN’s Darren Rovell and Chris Mortensen reported the news. A crew for the documentary had reportedly been
Local residents in the London borough of Newham have raised concerns after a new Conservative Party flyer was handed out today outside local mosques during Friday prayers. The leaflet seen by Breitbart London features a prominent picture of a mosque and
In perhaps the quirkiest edition of Amazing America with Sarah Palin, viewers were treated to a night of ducks and bulls. The show was nowhere near Anaheim or Chicago, however. Instead Palin’s posse headed to Arkansas and Texas for some wild events.
At the beginning of May, Barack Obama criticized the use of lethal injection to execute criminals because of a botched injection in Oklahoma, but the majority of Americans still believe that the death penalty is appropriate. According to a new NBC
U.S. Judge Christopher Klein, who is presiding over the Stockton city bankruptcy case, said on May 13th he will question officials from the California Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) in a bench trial that will last until Thursday, May 15th to determine whether the
HOUSTON, Texas–Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, are undergoing extensive training to prepare them for deployment to guard prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Texas’s Crazy Horse Troop trained in detention operations alongside members of Division West’s 3rd Battalion. The Crazy Horse
“Think tank…” For the average American, the phrase likely conjures up a range of thoughts, from a vague wrinkle of the brow to a silent muse lines along the lines of a classic Jerry Seinfeld sketch, “It’s a tank. To
‘Colbert Report’: Leftist Comic to Replace Leftist Comic Leaving to Replace Leftist Comic The cultural and political conformity at Comedy Central and CBS lives on now that the rotation is complete. Left-wing Stephen Colbert is leaving Comedy Central to replace
On Monday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Spike TV’s “Catch a Contractor” star and author of “President Me: The America that’s in My Head” Adam Carolla responded to a March 7 Variety magazine review of his Spike TV show by Brian Lowry.
ChiefExecutive.net 10th annual survey of 500 CEOs from across America on their views of the best and worst states for business rated California “The Worst,” and Texas “The Best.” The annual survey of business leaders asks each CEO to
The entire world is focused on the captured Nigerian girls, many scenarios have been envisioned–and yet there is at least one issue no one has raised: That it is entirely possible that these poor girls have also been genitally mutilated.
X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer missed the world premiere of his new film in New York on Saturday night in the wake of two recent sexual abuse lawsuits filed against him, according to The Hollywood Reporter. During the film’s
French poet Charles Baudelaire once observed, “The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.” That trick was not working from May 5-10 in Rome at the Pontifical Athenaeum “Regina Apostolorum,” an educational institution
Britain’s pro-hunting group ‘Vote-OK’ believes its intervention at the 2015 General Election would deliver a win for the Conservatives, according to the Express. The group claimed to have been the decisive factor in 36 Conservative gains at the last election, which
Allover Texas, the gloves came off and politicalparty lines were drawn for the May 10,2014 public school board elections. Incumbents backed by the Democratic Party cameout swinging to maintain the status quo against grassroots conservative candidateswho jumped into this year’s races.
