Before he moved to Washington DC for a job, Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis spent a lot of time at a Buddhist meditation center called Wat Busaya Dhammavanaram in White Settlement, Texas, which is just a few miles west of
During today’s congressional hearing on Benghazi, Rep. Jim Jordan asked Admiral Mullen about his decision to give Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff at State, Cheryl Mills, a heads up that one of the people who had been called to testify
This was one of the most powerful moments in today’s Benghazi hearing. Democratic Rep. Jack Speier asked Ty Woods’ father to talk about his son. Mr. Woods told a story he had heard about Ty lifting another man off the
Hours after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Fukushima plant and ordered its two remaining reactors decommissioned, an earthquake, magnitude 5.8, struck the area. Video posted to You Tube from a live camera set up by the Tokyo Electric
Florida – A 60 foot sinkhole opens up in Florida near Disney World: California – Homes swallowed by sinkholes in May. Some believe a dormant volcano is the cause: Illinois – A sinkhole swallows 3 cars on a residential
Politico ran two opposing pieces today, one titled What’s Wrong with Obama? and the other And What’s Right with Obama? What’s right turns out to be his “dazzling” smile, his “normality,” his enemies and his luck. It’s not very convincing
The Majority Staff for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has produced a memo which gives an update on its investigation into the IRS treatment of Tea Party groups. It concludes that media attention generated by President Obama and
There was a rally at Zuccotti Park today to mark the 2-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. About 100 people showed up, many of the them there to claim the defunct movement was still alive. “We’re still here, still fighting,
Investigators working for Scripps Media have interviewed a former employee for a provider of free phone service, sometimes known as Obamaphones, who admits to forging signatures on applications. A two-part video report by Scripps was further confirmed by National Review
A website called Money Morning published some quotes from investor Warren Buffett suggesting it was time to scrap Obamacare and start over. The story is undated but Google indicates it was published last Friday, Sep. 13th. “What we have now
Today Gallup highlighted the results of three ongoing polls which showed that Democrats have lost their advantage over the GOP in three key areas. First and most importantly the question of who can maintain American prosperity. Democrats held a big
A staff report prepared for Rep. Darrell Issa and released today finds numerous failings in the ARB report on Benghazi released last year. The new report overturns some of the conclusions of the official ARB report. It finds that Under
A great story from KPCC’s “Off-Ramp.” In the early 90s shortly after the fall of the USSR, Dana Rohrabacher met a small group of communist officials who had come to Washington and wanted to meet him because he had worked
National Public Radio’s board decided in a closed door meeting Thursday night to make buyout offers to employees in an effort to reduce staff by about 10 percent. The Washington Post reports that NPR currently has a staff of about
Putin is a strongman at home and a bad actor on the international stage. He is also diabolically clever. Yesterday, in an op-ed published by the NY Times, the Russian tough guy known for judo and shirtless horseback riding claimed
Via @allahpundit, a video that was posted to You Tube Monday shows CUNY students heckling David Petraeus in the street as he walks to the class he is teaching. One male heckler calls Petraeus a “scumbag” while a woman yells
Fox News has a piece today focused on the families of the four individuals who died in Benghazi last year. They have been promised justice but so far nothing seems to be happening. Charles Woods, father of Ty Woods, said
It has been a year since the attack which killed four Americans in Benghazi. During that time various minute-by-minute accounts of the attack have been published. In addition, the administration’s decisions to refuse additional security requests and to revise its
Yesterday, Secretary Kerry made an off-the-cuff statement in response to a question which derailed the White House’s agenda for the day. Today Kerry claimed during a congressional hearing, when prompted by Rep. Johnson, that he had intended to raise this
Support WW3 today! Why? Because Obama. I don’t know what the soundtrack music is but it’s perfect. [Via Jim Treacher]
The Obama administration has a strategy to bring people over to its side on Syria: Get them to watch a disturbing You Tube video. This morning National Security Advisor Susan Rice opened and concluded her argument in support of a
In this clip from today’s speech, National Security Adviser Susan Rice explains that we do not need to fear “a spiral of unintended escalatory reactions” as a result of our coming military strike. Why not? Because escalation by Assad would
About 100 anti-war protesters mixed with superheroes and stormtroopers at a rally in Hollywood yesterday afternoon. Protesters banged drums and screamed obscenities on the sidewalk where families of tourists come to see the Walk of Fame and the nearby Chinese
Two days ago President Obama claimed “I didn’t set a red line.” When word that Syria was mixing chemical weapons precursors broke last December, Secretary Clinton was in Prague. She was asked by a New York Times reporter about the
With his decision to attack Syria in a “limited” way, some are concerned about the possibility of future escalation. But the truth is we are not at the foot of the Syrian escalator deciding whether or not to get on.
Via NRO’s Andrew Johnson comes this clip of House Armed Service Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon telling Lawrence Kudlow the President is less than enthusiastic about having to defend his own Syria policy: The glimpse McKeon gives is of the
Last year the AP reported the Syrian regime had threatened to use their chemical weapons if attacked by a foreign power: The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biologicalweapons in case of a foreign attack, in its
A book published this week titled Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi reveals that reports of a “terrorist attack” were sent immediately from a Diplomatic Security agent on site to CIA agents at the Annex and
CNS News posted a clip of Charlie Rangel saying he does not support the President’s “red line” in Syria. What’s most striking isn’t Rangel’s answer it’s the question he’s asked by a host on MSNBC (video below): Are you concerned
Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. Last week he wrote a piece for Salon in which he argued that “support the troops” was merely shorthand for support-the-plutocrats, and for that reason, it should be resisted.
Jen Rubin points out that Obama’s decision to go to Congress about Syria was made Friday afternoon after a long walk with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough: He went with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough, on a
German investment in small scale green energy has led to significant increases in residential electricity prices, but there are other downsides to the green energy boom. As this clip suggests, living beneath a wind farm is not for everyone. But
Jen Rubin at the Washington Post highlights another inexplicable bungle to add to the list of our semi-involvement in Syria. As reported by Josh Rogin, Syrian rebels wanted gas masks and were told no: despite more than a year of
It’s a story that Newark Mayor Cory Booker has told many times over the years, especially during his first campaign back in 2002. Cory Booker says he befriended a young drug dealer named T-Bone who threatened to kill him but
Democrats eagerly went on the record against launching an attack on Iran without congressional authorization in 2007. Rep. Peter DeFazio had 59 cosponsors on H.Con.Res. 33, a sense of the Congress resolution which stated “the President should not initiate military
You can’t make this stuff up: You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad–but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad. I am not an education policy wonk: I’m just
In November 2007, Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton were engaged in a public relations battle over who would take the toughest line against President Bush on Iran. Hillary sent a stern letter signed by 30 Democrats while Obama introduced a
Irritated Genie released a new audio clip Tuesday in which he claims that his supervisors were aware of his outside activities since December 2010. According to Genie, whose real name is Ayo Kimathi, his employers found out about his beliefs
Back in 2007 Democrats were very certain about one thing. A President needs congressional authorization to authorize military force against a nation in the Middle East. Here’s Sen. Hillary Clinton saying “President Bush must not be allowed to act without
Following up on Ace’s post here is Biden telling Chris Matthews back in 2007 that he is deadly serious about attempting to impeach Bush if he goes to war in Iran without congressional authorization: Matthews: You said that if the