Fox News: Even as Texas Gov. Rick Perry moves into the lead as Republican voters’ preferred presidential candidate, a Fox News poll released Thursday shows that voters are more likely to view him as “too extreme” than former frontrunner Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. In addition, most American voters — including a majority of Republicans — [...]
National Journal: After consulting with President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner has invited him to address a joint session of Congress at 7 pm EDT on Sept. 8.—and Obama has accepted. Boehner’s office said Obama requested the 7 p.m. time slot, which will solve one programming problem while creating a time zone problem. A 7 [...]
Arizona Republic: Hispanic women in Arizona are having children at a significantly lower rate than in past decades, which could slow overall population growth if the trend continues, according to new state and federal data. Hispanic birthrates and net migration into the state have contributed heavily to the state’s rapid population growth. The decline in [...]
WTSP: ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – Months after the 10 News Investigators revealed a typo could be costing veterans all across the country benefits they deserve, the Department of Veterans Affairs is admitting the mistake. But it isn’t fixing it. A 10 News viewer emailed us with a tip that VA Form 21-8416 – an annual [...]
It has already been revealed that Gaddafi attempted to make communication with Dennis Kucinich’s office, pleading for assistance to halt US support of the rebels; the anti-war congressman even went so far as to proclaim that US commanders who authorized bombing missions in Libya should be tried in an international court. However, shocking intel recovered [...]
Stripes.com: BAGHDAD (AP) — Most of 35 Iraqi terror suspects who tunneled their way out of a detention facility on Thursday were quickly recaptured, a security official said. Abdul-Raheem al-Shimmary, the head of the security committee on the provincial council, said 21 of the detainees were recaptured soon after the dawn escape from a prison [...]
Daily Mail: More than 60 billion sets of chopsticks are produced every year in China, so you’d have thought they would be making enough. But a chopstick shortage is growing in the Far East, prompting a U.S. company in Georgia to start exporting millions to the country. Georgia Chopsticks is producing an incredible two million [...]
An assault breaching vehicle with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion fires a line charge to clear Improvised Explosive Devices in and around the Ladar Bazaar in Shukvani, Helmand province, Afghanistan. The charge is comprised of 1,750 pounds of C4 explosive and is spread along a 350-foot rope. (Cpl. Jeff Drew/USMC) An explosion rocks the ground in [...]
I understand this lady is grieving. I also understand that our troops deserve better treatment options for PTSD issues. But this lady has aligned herself with an anti-military group that is only using her and the PTSD issue to make our military look like they are all insane. Like Cindy Sheehan she doesn’t not realized [...]
Army Times: The cousin of the Army psychiatrist accused in a shooting rampage at an Army post in Texas has created a Muslim charity that denounces violence in the name of Islam, and is using the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to draw attention to the foundation. Philanthropy experts said it’s rare that [...]
Yahoo News: Linemen spend much of their offseason lifting weights to try and build up as much strength as possible. It’s part and parcel of the identity of playing along football’s front line. Still, three members of the Forest Park (Ind.) High offensive line took those feats of strength a bit further on Saturday, when [...]
Heritage Foundation: Some argue for taxing only the wealthy to raise revenues and reduce federal deficits. However, hiking taxes on these taxpayers would increase their tax rates to mathematically impossible levels. To close the 2035 deficit, the top two rates would increase to (not ‘by’) 139 percent and 150 percent, and in 2050 they would [...]
Stripes: Most Afghans want a binding security pact with the United States that would keep American troops in Afghanistan indefinitely, a senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday. Negotiations for such a pact have lagged in part because “some in the Afghan government are trying to sabotage it,” said Taj Ayubi, minister-counselor to [...]
Ynet News: Shiite terror group to use operations center to launch attack on Israeli target in South America, Italian newspaper reports Hezbollah has established a center of operations in Cuba in order to expand its terrorist activity and facilitate an attack on an Israeli target in South America, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. According [...]
Some may still be perplexed as to why, exactly, the Obama administration would focus so much energy on raiding Gibson Guitars; Gibson’s biggest competitior, C.F. Martin & Company, sources their materials from the exact same locations and companies as Gibson; they use the same processing and labor procedures; The Lacey Act being used as justification [...]
The Daily Caller: Florida Republican Rep. Allen West will not be receiving a response to his letter challenging the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Emanuel Cleaver to condemn recent attacks from its members on the tea party any time soon. CBC spokeswoman Stephanie Young told The Daily Caller Thursday morning the CBC is [...]
Ciara, the mascot for Operation Write Home, was made an honorary soldier.
