When inviting someone to attend the President’s State of the Union address probably best not to invite someone who’s been questioned by the Secret Service for threatening the President in the previous year.
The cabin where Christopher Dorner was making his final stand has gone up in flames. Watch.
Armed Services Committee sends Hagel nomination to Senate floor on 14-11 party-line vote.
Pretty incredible audio in this live streaming video of a gun battle in Big Bear, Calif., that local media is reporting involves the manhunt for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner.
Such a proud moment when the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee accuses the President’s Defense nominee of being “endorsed by Iran.”
Coming on the heels of a really egregious run of innuendo and toxic defamation from Sen. Cruz of Texas, Sen. Nelson (D-FL) made what I can only his own run at a Joseph Welch moment, suggesting Cruz had crossed some basic line of decency. We’ll have the video shortly.
Carl Levin’s name is almost hard to imagine with the word ‘smackdown.’ But for Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) he decided to make an exception.
Ted Cruz — coming after questioning whether Hagel has received money from “extreme” or “radical” groups or foreign governments — suggests that if Hagel is confirmed the chances of war with Iran become “substantially more likely.
This is, shall we say, a bit rich since more or less 100% of the opposition to Hagel’s nomination is based on the belief that he’ll make war with Iran less likely.
The National Rifle Association distanced itself Tuesday from a comment made by a lobbyist for one of its “chartered organizations” in Wisconsin, who said recently that gun rights proponents need only to wait out the “Connecticut Effect” before passing laws loosening restrictions on guns.
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