By: Ellen Mitchell – thehill.com – February 17, 2020 Lawmakers are calling out the Trump administration over its latest plan to shift billions of dollars meant for the Pentagon’s budget to instead pay for border wall construction. The top Democrat and Republican on the House Armed Services Committee are among the numerous lawmakers that last week pushed back on President...

By: Nick Arama – redstate.com – January 8, 2020 What’s really been embarrassing about the whole Iran issue is watching how Democrats have behaved since the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was attacked, first accusing Trump of doing nothing, then attacking him when he responded and took out IRGC terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani’s pro-Iranian militia were behind multiple recent rocket attacks...

By: Henry Rodgers – dailycaller.com – January 8, 2020 Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee left a classified Capitol Hill intelligence briefing on the situation in Iran held by the White House visibly angry Wednesday, saying he will now support a resolution to establish control over President Donald Trump’s military powers. Both Lee and Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul addressed the...

By: Staff – bbc.com – September 9, 2019 US President Donald Trump says talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan are “dead”. “As far as I’m concerned, they are dead,” he told White House reporters on Monday. Over the weekend Mr Trump cancelled secret plans to host a Taliban delegation in the US after the...

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – August 26, 2019 As a kid, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie recalls, he visited a VA hospital at Christmastime. “One of my fondest memories growing up, we used to sing Christmas carols at the VA hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina,” Wilkie told The Daily Signal, sitting in a 10th-floor office at VA headquarters on Vermont Avenue...

By: Jacqueline Thomsen – thehill.com – January 29, 2019 U.S. intelligence leaders said Tuesday they believe China currently poses the most dangerous and complex counterintelligence threat to the nation. “As I look at the landscape today and over the course of my career … the Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and...

By: James Stavridis – bloomberg.com – February 21, 2019 A Defense Department report warns that China’s military buildup is reaching the point where it can attempt to “impose its will on the region and beyond.” Visiting recently with senior officials from two U.S. allies in the region, Japan and Singapore, gave me a visceral feeling of how things look on the ground...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – December 27, 2018 On Wednesday, I covered the touching story of a serviceman’s encounter with President Trump during the surprise SCOTUS&FLOTUS visit to American military personnel in Iraq for Christmas (please see it here). Apparently, CNN wasn’t so touched with the whole scenario: CNN Politics✔ @CNNPolitics Troops bringing President Trump “Make America Great Again”...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – December 03, 2018 Before we delve into her new “argument,” I’d like to make a point about why the conservative commentariat sometimes seems fixated on Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. First, she entered the national spotlight as a media fascination and darling — a young woman of color who shook up the Democratic Party from the...

By: Jeff Stoffer – legion.org – August 30, 2018 A gold-plated .22-caliber repeating rifle engraved with images of a bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell is on its way from the 100th American Legion National Convention in Minneapolis to the White House in Washington, D.C. President Donald J. Trump is the recipient of the rifle, the annual prize for...