In the most sweeping retaliation against Russia in decades, President Obama slapped the country with new penalties Thursday for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restrictions on five people and four organizations the administration says were involved. “All Americans should be alarmed by Russia’s actions,” Obama said in […]
Category: Domestic
Congress Puts Band-Aid On Farm Loan Crisis
The budget patch gives the Agriculture Department’s Farm Service Agency authority to meet the spike in loan demand by using future funding, according to U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican who chairs an agricultural appropriations panel. There is no limit to how much the USDA can lend through April 28 – a victory for […]
Foreign President Accuses America Of Secretly Aiding Isis
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday accused the U.S.-led coalition fighting in in Iraq and Syria of supporting the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), as well as Syrian Kurds in regions that sit along Turkey’s southern border. “They were accusing us of supporting Daesh,” he told a press conference in Ankara, using an Arabic […]
Donald Trump Says “No Way” Obama Would Have Won Election
President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY! – jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2016 “I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think […]
Obama Says He Would Have Won Election Against Trump
HONOLULU – President Obama expressed confidence that, if he had run for a third term, he would have defeated Donald J. Trump, according to an interview released Monday with David Axelrod, his friend and former adviser. “I’m confident that if I – if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized […]
91-year-old man with Alzheimer’s Tasered By Cops
A sheriff’s deputy in Kansas Tased 91-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease in his back after he refused to go to the doctor, shocking newly-released body cam footage shows. The unidentified man broke his wrist while being handcuffed during the wild ordeal — and relatives believe the shock from the electrodes weakened his heart and led to his death […]
Isis Burns Two Alive
ISIS barbarians burned two Turkish soldiers alive in northern Syria, a gruesome new video released by the terror group shows. The 19-minute video, titled “The Cross Shield,” shows the doomed servicemen being taken out of cages and forced to crawl around on their hands and knees. The soldiers are then seen standing with chains around […]
Israel Upset With Obama
JERUSALEM — An Israeli official on Friday accused President Barack Obama of colluding with the Palestinians in a “shameful move against Israel at the UN” after learning the White House did not intend to veto a Security Council resolution condemning settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem the day before. “President Obama and […]
Trump To Enter Into Arms Race With Putin
U.S.-Russia relations will certainly be a major feature of the Trump presidency; the intelligence community has accused Putin’s government of hacking e-mails from Democratic Party officials in an effort to help Trump win the recent presidential election. In 2014, Russia annexed the territory of Crimea from neighboring Ukraine, which triggered several rounds of economic sanctions […]
Trump Wants To Expand American Nuclear Program
Donald Trump has called for the US to “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear arsenal. The president-elect, who takes office next month, said the US must take such action “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes”. He spoke hours after President Vladimir Putin said Russia needs to bolster its military […]
Obama Sets Record For Most Pardons
WASHINGTON — President Obama granted 78 pardons and 153 commutations on Monday — a single-day record for the use of presidential clemency power as Obama engages in an historic end-of-term clemency surge. With just 32 days left in office, Obama more than doubled the number of pardons he granted in the previous seven years. And he continued […]
No Surprise, Trump Wins Electoral College
Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. That’s been the case since Nov. 8, when Trump won 306 electoral votes, despite losing the national popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million. And on Monday, the result was ratified by Electoral College voters, who gathered in state capitols across […]