Congress

U.S. politicians are scrambling to get a series of bills signed in the coming days to avoid what could be a catastrophic government shutdown.

On July 30, 1945, just days after delivering the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian, the cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), steaming alone en route from Guam and heading to Okinawa, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Nearly 900 of its 1,195-strong crew died.  Now, the eight surviving crewmembers were honored by Congress. […]

Tensions grow as leaders try to balance the strength of the force, the safety of their soldiers, and the morale of families. As COVID-19 continues to spread in the Nation, schools are continuing to close indefinitely leaving families with additional strains as many hourly workers are laid off or told to go home. Financial stresses, […]

Richard Grenell, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, recently made history by being appointed as the first openly gay Director of National Intelligence who wasn’t fawned over by the Left and the media for being openly gay. Of course, this historic moment is being ignored because racial minorities, women and LGBTQ people are only legitimately allowed to […]

Dead On Arrival The President has proposed a budget for 2021 as is his duty, but don’t expect it to pass unscathed. The Left is already pronouncing it “DOA” and there is enough in the proposal to make just about everybody mad at him. The fundamental flaw, which stands out immediately, is that it requires […]

Canings, Stabbings, and Shootings Whig party member John Giddings of Ohio wanted to include into the Congressional Record his opposition to certain slavery measures; doing so would put him up against a Gag Rule passed by House Democrats from the South. They had tired of the anti-slavery harangues of the Whig party.  Edward Black of […]

Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contracting corporation, has added General Joseph “Fighting Joe” Dunford, less than six months after his retirement from the Marine Corps. Dunford will assist with Lockheed’s classified business and security committee and the nominating and corporate governance committee. Dunford served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) from […]

Jessica Carroll, House Committee on Armed Services Profession Staff Member, fires at a simulated target while using the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Squad Advanced Marksmanship Trainer during her visit to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Nov. 25, 2019. The SAMT uses different training scenarios to train Soldiers in squad movements […]

Gen. John M. Murray, commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command, headquartered in Austin, Texas, helps William K. Sutey, a professional staff member with the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, demonstrate the capabilities of a current iteration of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS, at Fort Pickett, near Richmond, Virginia, Nov. 6, 2019. […]

The ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is, of course, big news worthy of a great deal of coverage. Depending on how the inquiry goes, Trump may well become the third president in history ever to be impeached, and although the chances of a Republican controlled Senate removing him from office are so small […]

The public hearing for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is underway, and while a lot of the nation’s attention is focused on domestic politics, it’s important to remember that the world continues to turn even when our attention wanes. As Republicans and Democrats in Washington D.C. and all around the nation fortify their […]

There are nine remaining veterans of Merrill’s Marauders, that legendary and nearly mythic unit of world War II that fought for 5 months in the jungles of Burma, cut-off and always against superior enemy forces. It is far overdue to recognize them for their valor. House Bill HR-906 and Senate bill S. 743 will award […]