Politics

Politicians are scrambling to fill the coveted Supreme Court seat left by Justice Ginsburg’s death. But there’s more than the court at stake.

“We are compelled to withdraw our troops from the streets, have half our army on guard and close our state border with the West,” Lukashenko said.

CENTCOM Commander McKenzie confirmed that U.S. troop presence is on track to drop to 4,500 in Afghanistan and 3,000 in Iraq by election day.

Introducing term limits would go a long way to fixing our political pigpen; it puts in place proper incentives and disrupts the political royalty.

Robert Trump, the president’s younger brother, died in New York City at the age of 71. He was reportedly sick for several months and was hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. Robert Trump was an Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and a real estate developer. Part of his duties […]

Yesterday, former Vice President and presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden announced that Senator Kamala Harris would join his ticket as the candidate for Vice President of the United States. The decision came after months of speculation about who would join Biden in his campaign against President Trump in the November 3rd election. The Biden […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has stated that federal law enforcement officers (LEOs) will stop wearing camouflage clothing that is normally associated with the military. This decision comes after LEOs were criticized for looking too much like troops. Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli addressed senators during his Tuesday testimony before the Senate […]

On Friday, a federal appeals court vacated the death sentence for Boston Marathon convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, saying the judge who oversaw the case did not screen jurors adequately for potential biases. The case had rocked the city of Boston. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new penalty-phase […]

The “Twitch” amendment to the Pentagon’s spending bill is dead. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), had proposed to ban the military from or severely reduce the military recruiting through the e-sports gaming community.  Her amendment barely got 50 percent of Democrats in the House on board and was roundly defeated by a 292-126 margin on Thursday. […]

Online gaming and eSports are huge among young people in the United States. Therefore, the military sees it as a recruiting possibility. Yet, one Democratic congresswoman wants to stop the tactic of recruiting through such venues dead in its tracks.  On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-NY), introduced an amendment to the House Appropriations bill that […]

Nothing gets the blood boiling faster in Washington than political infighting. The most recent case concerns the alleged Russian practice of paying the Taliban for killing American soldiers. According to a report by the New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials had determined that a Russian military intelligence unit (GRU) had offered militants allied to the […]

Despite vows from the White House to block any name change of military bases named after Confederate officers, the proposal is gathering bipartisan momentum.  The Senate Armed Services Committee included in its draft of the annual defense authorization bill a proposal to change the names of bases honoring Confederate officers. The proposal mentions that the […]