Significant events since 2008 by al Qaeda, it’s affiliates, or those inspired by its ideas. Source: Bipartisan Policy Center, “Assessing The Terrorist Threat”, published September 10, 2010 A new report released on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks suggests that, while the threat to America may be less severe than [...]
Calling it a historic moment, U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that combat operations in Iraq had ended and the 50,000 transitional troops left behind would return home by the end of 2011.
“From this desk, seven and a half years ago, President Bush announced the beginning of military operations in Iraq,” the President said in an 8 p.m. televised speech to the nation. “Much has changed since that night.”
Obama said a war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency, while terrorism and sectarian warfare threatened to tear Iraq apart…
It’s a state that shares 1,200 miles of border with a neighboring country — Mexico — that is plagued by violence, drugs and political corruption.
As each day passes, warnings signs are increasingly evident that Texas, and other border states, are on the receiving end of increased danger on U.S. soil.
Today, Texas Governor Rick Perry hand-delivered a warning letter to President Barack Obama — who was scheduled to speak at the University of Texas in Austin on higher education and the economy — urging the federal government send 1,000 troops to the Texas-Mexico border…
From $500,000 given to Dayton, Ohio to pay for at least 8,000 new blue, 96-gallon, microchip-embedded bins to track citizens participation in the city’s recycling program…
To $62 million sent to Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania to extend the North Shore Connector’s, the stimulus dollars are hard at work.
Two Republican Senators on Tuesday released an oversight report detailing what they call are 100 examples of stimulus projects being mismanaged…
Convention delegates from the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — on Tuesday approved a resolution condemning “extremist” and racist elements of the political grassroots movement called the Tea Party.
According to a July 13 report in the Kansas City Star, the vote was “unanimous or nearly unanimous,” and took place at the group’s 101st annual meeting in Kansas.
While supporters of the resolution acknowledged the national press was “salivating” over the issue…
Citing a failure by the federal government to fix a national crisis over border control and illegal immigration, the State of Arizona last week passed a tough new law aimed at equipping law enforcement with tools necessary to protect citizens.
Governor Jan Brewer signed the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” in a decision that she characterized as one “not taken lightly.”
Opposition to the bill materialized swiftly, and critics charge it will encourage racial profiling and harassment of Mexicans in general…
Calling it a “peaceful demonstration” to rally in support of the Second Amendment — the Constitutional Amendment that declares a right to “keep and bear arms” — gun owners and supporters plan to descend upon the nation’s Capitol on April 19, 2010.
According to the group’s Media Director, the centralized march in Washington, D.C. will also be supported by “satellite” marches in state capitols and communities across America…
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