Photo Credit: APJudging from her fading smile, it appears that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi thought her meeting with a group of teenagers would be an easy photo op with no hard questions.
She was wrong.
“Why do you support the NSA’s illegal and ubiquitous data collection?” asked Andrew Demeter, a self-described investigative reporter who runs the TeenTake YouTube channel.
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Photo Credit: AP / Stephan SavoiaFirst lady Michelle Obama got a little carried away with her title Monday, correcting herself after suggesting to supporters that she, too, got elected in 2008.
At a Democratic fundraiser in Boston, Mrs. Obama asked the audience to remember “when we took office.”
Then she said, “Well, when Barack took office and I was there.”
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Photo Credit: AP / Charles DharapakAt a ceremony commemorating some of the bravest Americans of World War II, President Barack Obama reminded the “greatest generation” how the U.S. military has changed under his command, by slipping in references to immigrants and women.
Speaking at Normandy, President Barack Obama singled out three veterans who stormed the beaches under heavy fire.
These were “the men who were willing to lay down their lives for people they never met,” Obama said. “Wilson and Harry and Rock, they are here today,” the president continued, as he briefly described their service to their country.
“Gentlemen, I want each of you to know that your legacy is in good hands,” he told the three men. “For at a time when it has never been more tempting to pursue narrow self-interest, to slough off common endeavor, this generation of Americans — a new generation…has chosen to do their part as well.”
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Photo Credit: CNNJim “Pee Wee” Martin acted like he’d been here before, like jumping from a plane is as easy as falling off a log.
Maybe that’s because he had — 70 years ago.
“I’m feeling fine,” Martin told reporters moments after landing in a French field. “… It was wonderful, absolutely wonderful.”
Martin was part of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division that parachuted down over Utah Beach in their bid to retake France and, eventually, the rest of Europe from Nazi Germany. They actually touched down in enemy-controlled territory a night before what’s referred to as D-Day.
His jump Thursday in the same area was different and — despite his being 93 years old now — a whole lot easier.
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Photo Credit: TownHallBy Sarah Jean Seman.
Former president of the United States Ronald Reagan died ten years ago on June 5. While leading the American people from 1981 to 1989 the U.S. economy grew, Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev famously tore down the Berlin Wall, and Reagan earned the title “The Great Communicator…”
If the 40th president were alive today, he might offer the American people these reminders:
1). Government Overreach:
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
2). Inequality:
“The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”
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Be inspired! WATCH: Reagan’s ‘Boys of Pointe Du Hoc’ D-Day Commemoration
By Jamie Weinstein.
Thirty years ago, on the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most iconic speeches of his presidency.
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Photo credit: Gage Skidmore“This year, I’m sorry to tell you, the United States Senate is going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment,” Senator Ted Cruz stated at a Family Research Council pastors retreat recently.
He states that 41 Democrats are going to attempt to censor political speech, making it illegal for anyone to speak disparagingly about politicians.
“What it says is that politicians in Washington have unlimited constitutional authority to muzzle each and every one of you if you’re saying things the government finds inconvenient,” Cruz said.
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Photo Credit: REUTERS / KEVIN LAMARQUE…Welcome to Barack Obama’s America — where corruption, scandal and lawlessness reign, where truth, justice and integrity went right into that same garbage can and make no mistake, you’re next. Folks, it ain’t going to get better. Get ready because ObamaCare will do the same to you. Yesterday, VA Secretary [Eric] Shinseki resigned. So do I feel better? No. Will it bring back our dead veterans? No. Will it bring solace to their families? No. But, not to worry. The president is on it. He’ll make everyone accountable. He will take away their 2014 bonuses. Really? God help us.
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Photo Credit: Politico By Jonathan Topaz / Politico.
President Barack Obama “blew it again” on foreign policy, Sarah Palin said Monday, slamming the president for the deal that released Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
She cited National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s comments one day earlier that Bergdahl served “with honor and distinction.”
“No, Mr. President, a soldier expressing horrid anti-American beliefs — even boldly putting them in writing and unabashedly firing off his messages while in uniform, just three days before he left his unit on foot — is not ‘honorable service,’” the former Alaska governor wrote in a Facebook post. The New York Post has reported that Bergdahl once emailed his parents from Afghanistan, saying he was “ashamed to be an American.”
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Parents of fallen soldier: Our son died looking for Bergdahl and the military lied to us about it
By Allahpundit / Hot Air.
Their son, Second Lieutenant Darryn Andrews, was also named in Nathan Bradley Bethea’s Daily Beast piece today as one of the men from his battalion killed in action during the search.
If the accusation is true, it wouldn’t be the first time higher-ups tweaked the narrative about how an American soldier died to make it less problematic for the military.
At the time his family say they were told that his men were hunting a Taliban commander and that the truck at the front of their group ended in a hole after being hit by an Improvised Explosive Device.
As the men got out to try and move the truck, a Taliban fighter with a rocket propelled grenade emerged and fired at them.
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Photo Credit: Columbia University / APThe US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the case of a New York Times reporter who is seeking to avoid being forced to reveal a confidential source in testimony in a criminal trial.
The reporter, James Risen, was subpoenaed to testify at the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of disclosing secret intelligence information without authorization to Mr. Risen.
Risen had sought to block his compelled testimony at the trial.
The high court turned down Risen’s petition without comment. The action lets stand a federal appeals court’s decision requiring Risen to testify at the trial. The appeals court rejected Risen’s argument that the courts should recognize a reporter’s privilege against being forced to reveal the identity of a confidential source.
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Photo Credit: Fox News Police were involved in a pursuit of a car Saturday, and dramatic video from a FOX 13 News viewer shows the car speeding across the grass of Founders Park as children frantically move out of the way.
The chase ended around 6:12 p.m. at 1500 S. Banbury Drive in Syracuse, and police officials said a minor had taken the vehicle without permission and officers sought the vehicle on a breach of trust.
The 14-year-old male driving the car is from Sunset and had taken the vehicle from his grandfather in Duchesne County, and the grandfather reported the car stolen, according to a press release from the Syracuse Police Department. Police put out an attempt to locate, and police responded after a tipster spotted the car in Syracuse. The tipster heard the attempt to locate while using a police scanner app on a smart phone.
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