The FBI says it was contacted about a YouTube channel associated with the Oklahoma City restaurant shooter suspect but decided not to take further action. Just weeks before Alex Tilghman shot up a packed restaurant in Oklahoma City, injuring a female veteran and two young girls, the 28-year-old had made a series of You Tube […]
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Kim Jong Un Sends Right-Hand Man to U.S. for Pre-Summit Talks…
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dispatched one of his top aides to New York for talks ahead of his planned summit with Donald Trump next month, the U.S. president said on Twitter. “Meetings are currently taking place concerning Summit, and more,” Trump said in a Twitter posting that misspelled the envoy’s name. “Kim […]
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President Trump Welcomes Joshua Holt Back to the U.S…
This evening President Trump welcomed home Joshua Holt, a young man who had been imprisoned in Venezuela for nearly two years. Mr. Holt and his family are from Utah. The family, the State Department team and a group of U.S. politicians who participated in the negotiations for his release, held a short Oval Office press […]
Former Commander of USS John S. McCain Pleads Guilty, Retires After Deadly Collision…
A former commander of the USS John S. McCain pleaded guilty Friday to dereliction of duty when the destroyer collided with a commercial tanker, killing 10 sailors and injuring five in the Straits of Singapore last August. Cmdr. Alfredo Sanchez, who has served in the Navy for more than 20 years, testified during a special […]
Did the Feds Lose 1,475 Migrant Children?…
That’s what you would conclude from this USA Today opinion piece headlined, “The feds lost — yes, lost — 1,475 migrant children.” It’s a piece that’s a pretty good example of how “fake news” works — there’s some factual basis for the claim, but it’s exaggerated or misunderstood, and then fed into the maw of […]
CIA or CNN? The Media Deep State’s Echo Chamber…
Spygate began with the Clinton campaign. It ended with informants and eavesdropping on the Trump campaign. Clinton opposition research morphed into an endless investigation of her opponent. The Clinton campaign and its opposition research were the starting point of Spygate. And Mueller’s hound dog face scowling from a thousand CNN screens (roughly its viewership when […]
One Teen and Three FBI Operatives: Was the Government Behind a 17-Year-Old’s Terror Plot in Texas…
Toward the end of last year, as the Islamic State was collapsing in Iraq and Syria, a 17-year-old Texas high school student named Matin Azizi-Yarand began an online conversation. He had found a fellow traveler on the internet, and was hashing out whether to leave the United States to join ISIS abroad or carry out […]
Confidential Informants Are An Integral But Part of the Federal Law Enforcement…
Robert P. Johnson thought he had a shot at being best man at the wedding of his friend and workout buddy, Christopher J. Billings. Instead, he was indicted federally three weeks before the wedding for conspiring to sell cocaine, based on the account of a confidential informant. When prosecutors provided a glimpse of the evidence […]
Trump Awards Medal of Honor to Navy Seal for Controversial Mission in Afghanistan…
Six months after the 9/11 attacks, then-Senior Chief Petty Officer Britt Slabinski led a seven-man Navy SEAL Team Six unit to set up an observation post in eastern Afghanistan atop a 10,000-foot mountain known as Takur Ghar, to support U.S. forces in the valley below battling Al Qaeda in an operation known as Anaconda. In […]
The Emerging China-Iran-Pakistan Alliance Is Directed DECIDEDLY Against the United States…
In a January 10, 2018 Daily Caller article titled “China May Have Just Brokered An Iran-Pakistan Accommodation,” I outlined the extensive diplomatic and military initiatives underway in the past year to foster reconciliation between Iran and Pakistan, orchestrated behind the scenes by China. That strategy supports the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s blueprint for […]
War Games: The Cozy Relationship Between Perpetual War and Entertainment…
The average civilian can be forgiven for thinking that wars happen on battlefields. For an American public long intoxicated on a heady cocktail of jingoistic action films and gaudy halftime shows, the site of conflict is the stage on which the war is performed. What’s more, military tradition has also long revered battlefield sagas. Names […]
“What You Need To Know About The Violent Animals Of MS-13” A White House Primer…
In response to last week’s controversy after President Trump referred to MS-13 gang members as “animals,” the White House has published a handy primer on the organization. After originating in Los Angeles during the 1980s, MS-13 has a heavy presence in California, Boston, New York City, Houston and elsewhere. Most of its members are originally […]
Dem Sen Warner: No ‘Single Piece of Legislation’ Would Have Stopped TX School Shooting…
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said there was not “a single piece of legislation” that would have prevented the recent school shooting in Texas. Warner said, “I don’t think there’s a single piece of legislation, but there’s a series of actions. Are there things we can do that would […]
Asylum Cases Shot Up a Whopping 1,750 Percent Under Obama…
The number of non-Americans who claimed asylum increased 1,750 percent during former President Barack Obama’s administration, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon. “We have seen a 1,750 percent increase in the number of fear claims being made in the expedited removal process between FY 2008 and FY […]
Secretary of State Pompeo Threatens Iran with ‘Strongest Sanction in History,’ Outlines New Nuclear Demands…
Saying the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration had “fatal flaws,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said the U.S. was preparing “the strongest sanctions in history” if Tehran did not change its destabilizing ways and forever abandon its drive for nuclear weapons. In an address to the Heritage Foundation, Mr. […]
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What the North Koreans Told Me About Their Plans…
What exactly do the North Koreans mean when they say they’re willing to denuclearize? And how exactly would they do so? These are the key mysteries at the heart of the upcoming Trump-Kim summit—and indeed they threatened to derail the whole thing this week when Kim Jong Un objected to National-Security Adviser John Bolton’s vision […]
At Least 8 Killed in Santa Fe High School Shooting…
Law enforcement sources confirm to ABC13 at least 8 people are dead following a shooting inside Santa Fe High School. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office says one suspect is in custody and a second one is detained. According to law enforcement agencies, it appears the shooter is a student. The school district just issued the […]
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Gina Haspel Confirmed As First Woman to Run CIA…
The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel Thursday as CIA director, making her the first woman to run the spy agency. Haspel, who spent three decades at the agency and much of it undercover, earned support from six Democrats after she pledged not to restart waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques used in the wake of 9/11. “There […]
Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks…
Last week, while watching Benjamin Netanyahu unveil secret information that supposedly proved that Iran is deceiving the world about its nuclear-weapons program, I had a flashback. It was to February 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell unveiled secret information that supposedly proved that Iraq was deceiving the world about its nuclear, chemical, and […]
Armed Officer STOPS School Shooting in Illinois…
A potential disaster was averted Wednesday morning after an armed officer shot a would-be school shooter at Dixon High School in Illinois; thwarting the attack before the gunman could reach other students. The suspected gunman reportedly arrived at the local high school at approximately 8:00am, engaged the officer who returned fire, and was subsequently taken […]
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