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OBAMA SLAPPED DOWN BY U.S. 5TH CIRCUIT COURT

by | May 26, 2015

Slapped down by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit of Appeals, President Barack Obama has little recourse to reinstate his Nov. 21, 2014 executive order on immigration. Insisting that he acted unilaterally because of gridlock in Congress, Obama found little sympathy...

White House Signals No Ground Troops in Iraq

by | May 24, 2015

Drawing criticism from Iraqi officials, 60-year-old Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the Iraqi military has lost their will to fight, allowing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria to take Ramadi, the capital of Sunni-rich Anbar Province.  Abandoning their weapons...

Iraq’s Military Falls Apart Fighting ISIS

by | May 23, 2015

Watching Ramadi fall to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria May 17, the beleaguered Iraq military hoped to use Sunni and Shiite militias to reclaim land lost to ISIS since the 2014 ISIS blitzkrieg that grabbed some 30% of Iraq’s land.  Since President Barack Obama...

GOP Beats Dead Horse on Hillary’s Benghazi Emails

by | May 22, 2015

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus hopes that keeping Hillary’s role in the Sept. 11. 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya damages her 2016 presidential hopes.  Establishing the House Select Committee on Benghazi May 5, 2014, Priebus...

ISIS Offers Guns, Butter and Salvation

by | May 21, 2015

Battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups is bad enough for the U.S. and its Western allies.  Capturing enough on-the-ground intel and coordinating with predator drones and Special Ops occupies much of U.S. military intelligence, planning...