Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory after the first exit polls released following Tuesday’s elections showed the Likud ahead of, or tied with, the Zionist Union.
Netanyahu wrote on his Facebook page: “Against all odds, a great victory for the Likud, for the nationalist camp led by the Likud, and for the people of Israel.”
Charles Krauthammer
Video: Columnist Charles Krauthammer asserted it was “rich” for John Kerry to criticize the GOP’s Iran letter given his protest activity during the Vietnam War on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel.
“I would say, Mr. Kerry, is it not rich that you should be criticizing the 47 Senators who are writing about an agreement that they believe is harmful to the country? And you are calling them acting unconstitutionally and contrary to the interest of their country, when you yourself, 40 years ago, spoke openly and to the world declaring your own country guilty of war crimes while we were in the middle of a war. In fact, depredations were the — and these are your words ‘Genghis Khan’… and you are here now accusing others of harming their country by speaking openly” he said.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | CA-33) and Congressman Steve Russell (R | OK-5) have sent a letter to Admiral Michael Rogers, Director of the NSA. As veterans and members of Government Oversight & Reform’s National Security Subcommittee, Rep. Lieu and Rep. Russell are concerned about recent allegations that the NSA has potentially searched every email sent by Americans to an overseas address.
These allegations came to light late last week in a lawsuit filed by both progressive and conservative groups against the NSA in federal court.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai
Analysis: Now that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has passed new rules without legal authority and, thereby, ending Internet freedom, we can read the rules at least before the U.S. Courts address them in multiple lawsuits likely forthcoming.
The 400 page Shades of Obamacare document is available online here.
In this bazaar bureaucratic government overreach effort to control what we speak, learn, listen, watch and how we fundamentally connect with the world; the FCC betrayed long standing bipartisan support for a free and open Internet.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai warned those who follow such issues, but main stream media is not so concerned – apparently pesky individual freedoms are not relevant to privileged news sources that so often assert we can “trust” them for all the news that is “fit” for us to know.
Senator James Lankford (R-OK), along with fellow freshman Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Mike Rounds (R-SD), last night returned from a trip to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Senators toured the Guantanamo Bay base, observed detention operations, and met with military commanders.