Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., comments on Rep. Darrell Issa’s, R-Calif., inquiries into the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Issa and Cummings serve together on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and have used harsh words against each before, such as in March when they clashed at a hearing involving […]
Think Progress reports that there were “zero U.S. fatalities among American troops engaging in combat, according to numbers from the Department of Defense.“ This was the first time since the launch of the war in Iraq in 2003. After a decade at war in the post-9/11 environment, with major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and […]
Remember the Bush years when daring to criticize the President was consider to be treason? It seems that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has forgotten. Rumsfeld lashed out at President Obama on Monday telling Fox News host Greta Van Susteren that a “trained ape” could do better. Rumsfeld began his attack by speaking about […]
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tells CBS News’ Scott Pelley he fears that with the wind-down of the war in Afghanistan, some Americans may forget too quickly about the needs of the troops who served. Therefore he has decided to donate $30 million to help the 2.5 million troops who have served in Afghanistan, Iraq and […]
USS Kidd had been sent to the Indian Ocean after an “indication” of possible debris from the Malaysian jet crash has been discovered. “We have an indication the plane went down in the Indian Ocean,” the official said, to ABC. The Washington Times reports: “That comes on the heels of a report that found the […]