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Watch on YouTube President Trump took decisive action after a series of incidents in Iraq committed against America by Iranian-backed militias. Last week, they killed an American contractor and on New Year’s Eve, Iran-backed protestors stormed the US Embassy in Baghdad, setting it on fire. Friday morning, a US military strike killed the head of […]
The Sunday heading of the Washington Post announcing the death of the head of ISIS after a US military operation read as follows: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State dies at 48 This astonishing news wasn’t the headline, but a heading, in the “Obituaries” section. Not to be outdone, Bloomberg […]
The case of 7-year-old James Younger, whose mother has told him he is a girl, has received national attention. On Wednesday, a jury ruled in favor of the mother, deciding she should have sole managing conservatorship for his care—which included her plans to have him begin chemical castration when he turns 8. The public outcry […]
“Much harder than the witch hunt is signing letters to parents of soldiers who have been killed… Mothers and wives jumping on that coffin and crying desperately…There is a time and a place [for war], and this is a time to stop.” —President Trump, on the pullout from Syria This week President Trump ordered 30-50 […]
1. North Korea North Korean government media broadcast threats against the U.S., saying “There is no bigger mistake than the United States believing that its land is safe across the ocean.” It added that the U.S. would pay dearly “thousands of times” for the economic sanctions, which include prohibitions on exports of coal, iron, […]
London Bridge – 10 p.m. Saturday, three attackers began their reign of terror. They rented a van and ran over 20 people on London Bridge. They then proceeded to an area of pubs, entering these bars and slashing people with 12-inch knives. Seven were killed and 48 injured before the police shot the three attackers dead. […]
The Pentagon has announced it will be conducting a test of our missile defense system in order to prepare for a possible attack from North Korea. The test will happen on Tuesday, and it works like this: The military is alerted to an incoming missile from a hostile country such as North Korea A rocket […]
On Thursday, U.S. military dropped their largest non-nuclear weapon containing 11 tons of explosives. The target was ISIS caves and tunnels on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan. The bomb was designed for the Iraq war, but was not used until Thursday. On the campaign trail in 2015, Trump pledged he would “bomb the s*** out of ISIS” if he […]
A detachment of U.S. Marines landed with artillery in Syria on Wednesday, and more are on their way. The target is Raqqa, the ISIS capital. The total number of Marines will be about 900, and although U.S. special ops forces have been there a year, this is the first time a substantial number of U.S. […]
On Monday, Wikileaks released another 3,000 emails from Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta. This brings the total to 15,000. The themes continue to show the campaign’s desire to cover Clinton’s flaws and to lie and take every political advantage available. One Clinton adviser wrote to Podesta about Hillary, saying: “Her inability to just do a national interview and […]
A stunning report released Thursday by a House Republican task force revealed that official intelligence reports hid the real state of the battle against ISIS. They consistently described U. S. actions in a more positive light and implied the war against ISIS was being won. The task force blamed “structural and management changes” at Central […]
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