Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta will become the first living Medal of Honor recipient since the Vietnam War. He will be one of four, who have fought in Afghanistan, to receive the nation’s highest honor. While President Obama will decorate a living soldier with the medal, Congress is considering a resolution to declare November U.S. Military [...]
This week Lady Gaga joined Maine’s rally to send a message to the state’s two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, asking them to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), a critical vote in Congress this week. But to no one’s surprise Senate Republicans quashed it. Democrats needed only 60 votes to overcome [...]
President Truman’s ordered the integration of the armed forces by issuing Executive Order 9981 in 1948. Congressional approval was not required in 1948. President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730 in 1957, placing the Arkansas National Guard under Federal control as part of the support for desegregation. Congressional approval was not required in 1957. In 1992, [...]
Originally posted at Cagle. This week, Republicans in the Senate successfully showed their collective contempt for our men and women in uniform and in the process they made our military weaker and our country less safe. Led by John McCain — the upper chamber’s cranky uncle — Republicans blocked Democratic efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, [...]
Remember how mean Old-Man McCain threatened to block movement to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and we were all like, “um… you’re stupid.” And then remember how last night we waited to see if Sarah Palin would show up on DWTS to cheer on her little star who’s famous for not using a condom? One [...]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A rocket carrying classified satellite cargo has been successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast. A release from the base says the Atlas 5 rocket carrying a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office was launched Monday shortly after 9 p.m. Read more: Atlas [...]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s ruling communist party has finally set a date for its biggest convention in decades, an apparent indication that the regime may be ready to give the aging leader’s son a key position that will pave the way for his succession. Delegates to the ruling Workers’ Party will meet in [...]
The National Bureau of Economic Research tells us the Great Recession is “over.” In fact, it ended in June 2009! Hip, hip, hooray! The only thing this announcement reveals is just how out of touch, cruel, and compassionless those who view human society through the lens of quantitative measurements can be. Numbers don’t begin to [...]
Iranian autocrat Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is blessing us with his annual pilgrimage to the United Nations General Assembly. More media savvy than before during his last two annual Big Apple forays, he made his ritualistic yet shopworn gesture for dialogue “based on respect and justice” (i.e. code words to his UN Security Council hosts to drop [...]
Journalist and author Bob Woodward’s hotly anticipated new book “Obama’s Wars,” scheduled for release on Sept. 27, has been making waves on the Internet, in part because it “depicts an administration deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan even as the president agreed to triple troop levels there amid suspicion that he was being boxed [...]
