Tag Archives: operation

Obama exempted Pakistan drone missions from tougher rule in 2013

President Obama secretly granted the Central Intelligence Agency more flexibility to conduct drone strikes targeting terror suspects in Pakistan than anywhere else in the world after approving more restrictive rules in 2013. The Wall Street Journal, citing current and former…

WWII ship used for atomic bomb tests found ‘amazingly intact’

The USS Independence aircraft carrier, which operated during World War II, has been located about a half mile underwater off California’s Farallon Islands. Using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) dubbed the Echo Ranger and a 3D-imaging sonar system, researchers have…

ISIS threat: Operation ‘Inherent Resolve’ is a flop. Time to arm the Kurds

President Obama met with the anti-ISIS coalition’s defense ministers at Andrews Air Force Base this week. Afterward, he said the 21 member states agreed that they’re going to defeat ISIS. It sounded great. But it was a fairy tale. The…

A ‘Sandy’ Santa visits the Jersey Shore

It’s around this time of year when Vanessa Beard hopes for a white Christmas. “Christmas is important to me,” she says as she walks around her home in Keansburg, N.J. “I look forward to it. Every year we go out…

After Al Qaeda bomb plot leak, someone needs to be held accountable

The White House would like you to please ignore what I’m about to discuss. ;They’d prefer you fawn over President Obama’s evolving position on gay marriage or protest against the one-percent. But don’t pay any attention to that noise about…

Remembering Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice

Shortly after the Civil War both the North and South started to recognize those warriors who died in the epic war of our time. Originally this day was called “Decoration Day,” in which all the graves of those killed in…