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As it has every year since he took office, President Barack Obama’s Christmas with the first family meant traveling to Hawaii for the holiday in 2015.
According to information obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch from the U.S. Air Force via a Freedom of Information Act request, that trip to Hawaii cost taxpayers more than $3.5 million in flight expenses alone.
At the Trump rally in West Allis, Wis., “F*ck Yo Flag” activists stomped and spit on a U.S. flag in front of veterans. WARNING: Graphic language – viewer discretion advised
Judge Pirro found herself the source of controversy once again when she discussed the attacks on the Western world at the hands of radical Islamists. She cited specifically the Philadelphia police attack and the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
Pirro commented that the Obama administration and Islamic radicals might as well be on the same side, because it is clear our ‘leader’ is not going to do anything to prevent these acts in the future.
(Via CNSNews) Friday on Levin TV,nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin roundly condemned the left’s attempts at raising the minimum wage asserting that raising the minimum wage is “a job killer, an opportunity killer for young people.”
(Via CNSNews) President Barack Obama said in his weekly address released yesterday that the Islamic State, which he refers to as ISIL, is having morale problems.
He also said that as it “is squeezed in Syria and Iraq, it’s lashing out elsewhere” such as in Turkey and Belgium.
You have got to be kidding me! Two promises were made to Congress when Obama convinced them to approve the dismantling of nuclear sanctions with Iran. I have no idea why they believed him. Both promises have been broken.
First, the Administration would stand strong on use of other sanctions that would punish Iran for its terror promotion, ballistic-missile development and related aggression. The second promise was that Iran would continue to be banned from the US financial system.
The Second Amendment has been under attack for some time now in the united States, and there has been a relentless assault by the Obama administration at attacking the rights of the people to keep and bear arms. At the forefront of that attack has been America’s veterans, and according to a report, at least 260,000 veterans had their gun rights revoked by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs since December 2015.
(Via Breitbart) An expensive federal initiative to combat jihad propaganda in American cities has failed because domestic Islamic groups say the initiative is “highly objectionable,” the Associated Press reports.
President Barack Obama insists that generic “extremism,” with no strong ties to any particular religion or ideology, is a national security threat faced by the United States. During one especially energetic push against generic extremism in late 2014, as he was hosting a series of highly-touted “summits on global extremism,” he announced a federal initiative, with $500,000 of initial funding, to set up anti-extremism campaigns in Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis, with more to come after those pilot programs were established.
(Via NBC News) The CIA in 2012 proposed a detailed covert action plan designed to remove Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but President Obama declined to approve it, current and former U.S. officials tell NBC News.
It’s long been known that then-CIA Director David Petraeus recommended a program to secretly arm and train moderate Syrian rebels in 2012 to pressure Assad. But a book to be published Tuesday by a former CIA operative goes further, revealing that senior CIA officials were pushing a multi-tiered plan to engineer the dictator’s ouster. Former American officials involved in the discussions confirmed that to NBC News.
(Via Bizpacreview) Despite the attacks in Paris and Brussels, President Obama remains determined to bring more Syrian refugees into the country.
Fox Business Network’s “Cashin’ In” panel discussed the problem Saturday.
Update Tuesday, March 29 7:23 P.M.: Following publication of this story, a USDA spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon that the goal of the new proposals are meant to ensure high standards in its Child Nutrition Programs.
“To ensure that entities implementing these critical programs continue to meet high standards of program effectiveness and integrity, USDA is proposing a series of program improvements that address only those programs with systemic and significant program violations, such as theft of funds and financial mismanagement, to safeguard the integrity of Child Nutrition Programs and taxpayer dollars,” the spokesperson said.
(Via The Hill) Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he felt President Obama “double-crossed” him during his tenure over budget cuts to the Pentagon.
In a Fox News report Friday that explored the president’s approach to the military, Gates said Obama had promised him that there wouldn’t be any “significant changes” in the defense budget for a while.
(Via Daily Caller) Unionized government tax collectors have been subjected to consistent abuse and corruption from their labor representatives, according to an inside source.
Attorney Jane Kim has worked for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in New York for roughly 12 years. She alleges that in her time working for the tax collection agency, she has seen rampant abuse and corruption from the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). She tried to expose the abuse, only to be ignored by officials at every level of the union.
(Via AllenWest) The FBI has taken over the investigation surrounding Hillary Clinton’s emails. And while Hillary may think she has nothing to hide among the emails she’s sent or received, her staff members can’t say the same.
Even if some of us are starting to get tired of hearing about her damn emails, it may not be what we find in her emails that ends up making headlines.
(Via FoxNews) President Obama has been lecturing the media for its coverage of the 2016 race, suggesting that it is to blame for the rise of Donald Trump.
“There’s enormous pressure on journalists to fill the void and feed the beast with instant commentary,” Obama said.
The State Department is halting its internal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server to avoid interfering with an ongoing FBI probe, ABC News reported on Friday.
The move was in response to a formal directive from the FBI. A State Department spokesperson told ABC News that it is “standard practice” for agencies to defer to the FBI in such cases, and did not rule out reopening the internal review after law enforcement completes its investigation:
In January the department revealed that during its review of Clinton’s 52,000 pages of private email it had come across 22 documents that had to be upgraded to “Top Secret” and totally withheld from public release. It said at the time that it would conduct a separate internal review to determine if the secret information in those emails had been mishandled at the time the emails were sent.
There is certainly a conflict of interest concerning the FBI's alleged desires to deal with Hillary Clinton in a criminal matter, but is subservient to the Department of Justice that is run by a known Constitution violator by the name of Loretta Lynch. However, though Lynch is a Constitution violator, it is her law firm that is tied to Hillary Clinton that is a part of the issue in the current matter regarding Clinton's blatant disregard for federal law concerning her illegal and unsecured email server.
Demonstrators seeking change in immigration policy march on May Day in Los Angeles, California, May 01, 2013. Some 2,000 demonstrators marched in May Day rallies calling for immigration reform, a key issue just north of the US-Mexican border. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images)
(Via Breitbart) Radical leftists pushing for an open borders agenda are attempting to destroy the ability of over 80 percent of our nation’s Border Patrol agents to speak out and sound the alarm to the public and to Congress. The Huffington Post reported that the open-borders extremist group, Not1More, is a “prominent immigrants rights group” and that they were behind an effort to have the AFL-CIO kick out the National Border Patrol Council from its ranks. Not1More derives its name from the idea that “not one more” illegal alien should be deported from the U.S.
(Via Daily Caller) Huma Abedin said in an interview this week that she has yet to read the emails she exchanged with her longtime boss, Hillary Clinton, but that she is “mortified” by what may be in them.
“Terrifying,” is how Abedin described the existence of the records in the public domain during an interview on the “Call Your Girlfriend” podcast.
Via Breitbart) Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) attacked the Ayn al-Assad Iraqi air base housing American forces, according to the Pentagon.
There were no casualties from the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, added the Department of Defense (DOD).
Citing Iraqi officials, CBS Radio News correspondent Cami McCormick reports that an American military official said between three and four fighters wearing explosive vests perished during the attack.
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