With a simple stroke of his dictatorial pen Obama erased a law passed with bipartisan support. Obama has exempted four countries from a law that restricts the United States from providing military aid to governments that employ child soldiers.
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Christian areas targeted in Baghdad attacks
A series of bombings and mortar attacks targeting Christian areas has killed at least three people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security sources say.
Chávez the Cocaine Capo?
One of the world’s top drug kingpins may soon be telling U.S. prosecutors everything he knows about Venezuelan officials who have abetted his cocaine smuggling operations.
False START
A push to ratify a flawed and dangerous arms limitation treaty to give the president a foreign policy legacy may only succeed in writing our epitaph, leaving our defenses neutered and our enemies emboldened.
Obama excuses jihadists in India townhall
At a townhall in India a student asked Obama his opinion of jihad or jihadis. His answer reveals the danger in having him as Commander-in-Chief in the war on terror.
START of a lame duck?
Obama hinted at one of his lame duck goals in his post election posturing speech. Calling it an issue of ‘national security’ he said the START treaty should be approved by the lame duck senate.
Mass. hysteria – vote to give up sovereignty?
A weird ‘Public Policy Question’ showed up on the Massachusetts ballot that would ‘instruct’ a state representative to amend the state constitution to delegate powers concerning international affairs to a ‘global federal union of democratic nations’.
California’s Slap At Our Drug-Fighting Allies
Leaders of Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and other drug-battered nations held a one-day summit in Cartagena, Colombia, to send the message that Prop. 19 will hurt them.
Iraq not free for Christians
Iraq’s decreasing Christian population was left grieving and scared after 52 were killed in an attack on a church in Baghdad.
El Loco’s Nuke Push: A Problem US Needs to Face
If something isn’t done to prevent it, we’ll likely be facing an emerging nuclear threat from President Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela sometime in the next 10 years.