Vice President Joe Biden recently declared at a recent PBS event that Congress needs to outlaw "assault weapons" because the police are overwhelmed by heavily-armed criminals. Declared the Veep: 
 One of the reasons the assault weapons ban makes sense, even though it accounts for a small percentage of gun deaths, is because police organizations overwhelmingly support it because they are outgunned on the str ...

ollowing an earlier and quite negative update from WHI regarding Hillary Clinton’s Senate testimony on the Benghazi Massacre, a Republican insider working to unite the party under its more traditional conservative values, responds with the following message: RI:  I understand (WHI’s) frustration but I completely and 100% disagree with its basic premise regarding the Clinton hearing this morning.  People can ...

Two Naperville mothers were arrested Wednesday, after they tried to block utility workers from installing new “smart meters.” CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov reports one of those women was released from custody late Wednesday afternoon, the other was still in custody, but should be released soon. 
 Their arrests were the culmination of a two-year battle against “smart meter” installation in Naperville. At Jenn Stahl’s ...

Hollywood films often show alien ships or giant monsters rising from the ocean depths to threaten humanity's existence. The U.S. military envisions a more realistic scenario of hiding robotic drones, sensors or decoys on the ocean floor so that they can rise to the occasion when needed. The idea of hiding sneaky spy technologies beneath the waves comes from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

America’s civilian employees of more than 2 million face “an uncertain future” as discussions during the next two months on raising the nation’s borrowing limit, deficit reduction and the budget could have a direct effect on their pocketbooks and workplaces, The Washington Post warned in a report published on Tuesday. 
 Unpaid furloughs are a real possibility, and the potential for layoffs has workers worri ...

It was like watching the woman you love marrying the wrong man. Obama’s second inaugural was far from the unifying speech that we were promised but instead a declaration of (continued) war on the conservative movement and a rallying cry for liberals. Does the President not realise that he won the 2012 election and doesn’t have to carry on campaigning? Or did someone load up an old draft of his convention sp ...

With drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and soon Mali, that Obama has stated are "precision strikes against al Qaeda and their affiliates," such precision does not apparently fit the definition of targeted killings, at least in Pakistan. It's also less than comforting that those responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians - at least 10 for every 1 'militant'  in Pakistan ...

On Monday, renowned author and humanitarian Dr. Jim Garrow made a shocking claim about what we can expect to see in Obama's second term. 
 Garrow made the following Facebook post: I have just been informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders. Get ready to explode folks. “The new litmus test of leaders ...

In a 155-page report, four US nuclear experts have called upon the Obama administration to impose tougher economic sanctions against Iran and resort to overt operations through using warplanes and missiles on Iranian nuclear sites. Apart from the fact that morbid mindset of this nature only helps fan up chaos and serves as an impetus to widespread pandemonium in the region, any mention of any such policy le ...

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stepped out of their limousine in downtown D.C., following the longstanding tradition of the president strolling for a portion of his inaugural parade down the city's main boulevard. 
 The Obamas stepped out of their car near the intersection of 8th Street and Pennsylvania Ave NW, near the US National Archives and Records Administration building. The first coupl ...