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Let’s get real about the Secret Service ‘scandal’ and what went on in Colombia

Finally. I’m finally over the shock of learning that men, when away from home and faced with opportunity, might find themselves in the company of booze and hookers. Usually in that order. Much has been made of the Secret Service…

Secretary Panetta, Here Are 4 Smart Ways to Cut $6 Billion From the Defense Budget

The $400 billion Department of Defense budget decrease that President Obama handed Defense Secretary Gates as he was about to walk out the door was not received very well by even Gates. He had already taken a sizable chunk out…

L.A.: $111M in Stimulus Saved Just 55 Jobs

Jan 29: A stimulus project roadsign is posted on Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, Calif. (AFP) Aug. 13: Several thousand people protest demanding jobs outside City Hall in Los Angeles. (AFP) PreviousNext More than a year after Congress approved $800…

White House Backs Kenyan Constitution Allowing Abortion

Vice President Biden and Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Wetangula look on after laying a wreath at the site of the former U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. While in Kenya, Biden expressed support for the proposed new constitution, which Kenya approved on…

Everyone Must Go, If We Want to Win In Afghanistan

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and numerous other Democratic political leaders chastised General David Petraeus during his Iraq surge testimony in September 2007. A full-page placed by MoveOn.org in The New York Times labeled General Petraeus “General…

Man Serving Three Life Terms for Drug Deal Pins Hopes on Clemency From Obama

This is a follow-up to a three-part series that took a look at the case of Clarence Aaron, a one-time college student whose involvement in a 1993 cocaine deal got him three life sentences in federal prison. Click here to…