I heard a lot about Herman Cain’s “Libya” video yesterday. It always works out like this; I’m in no position to sit down and watch a video, and everyone’s talking about it. I heard it was really bad, and the snippets I saw on the news made it look pretty bad also, so I was [...]
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall and see how a major politician responded to an event in U.S. history? Maybe it would be neat to see how Abraham Lincoln responded to winning the Civil War. Or maybe you’d like to see Ronald Reagan’s reaction when he first heard about the [...]
Fox News is reporting that Libya’s ousted leader, Muammar Qaddafi has been captured. He was reportedly wounded in both legs and found in a hole similar to when Iraq’s oppressive leader, Saddam Hussein was captured. UPDATE: AFP confirms Qaddafi dead. i (Pic: AFP /Philippe Desmazes) It is reported that Qaddafi was shot in both legs and shot in [...]
Since the beginning of the War on Terror, the United States has taken on the task of forming hostile nations into allies in the Middle East. The best analogy I can think of to currently describe the way things have gone is likening our nation building efforts to the comic strip “Peanuts”. The nations that [...]
The Secretary of State’s office released a statement on Libya Friday morning. In Clinton’s statement she announces that $1.5 Billion in funds previously frozen by the United States would be made available to the transitional government – the TNC or Transitional National Council. Today, the Libya Contact Group held a meeting in Istanbul to demonstrate [...]
Earlier today, Libyan rebels took over Col. Mohammar Qaddafi’s compound in the middle of the capital city of Tripoli. Fighters poured into the area by the hundreds, carting off boxes of ammunition and firing weapons in the air in celebration. Several young men placed a head seized from a statue of Qaddafi under their feet [...]
Tuesday afternoon, I had the opportunity to spend twenty minutes with Congressman Allen West (R FL-22) and ask him about the outcome of the debt-limit negotiations, the current state of the economy and U.S. foreign policy. Once the pleasantries were exchanged, we got right to the questions. Rich: Moody’s cut the U.S. economic outlook for 2011 [...]
Passed House on June 3rd, 2011 Executive Summary [Full Text Here] H. Res. 292 would make the following statements of policy: “The United States Armed Forces shall be used exclusively to defend and advance the national security interests of the United States; “The President has failed to provide Congress with a compelling rationale based upon [...]
