Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC)
Updated: During a U.S. House hearing on the closure of national parks and monuments during the government shutdown, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) illustrated the Obama Administration’s blatant disregard for the Rule of Law in pursuit of political advantage.
Gowdy questioned the director of the National Park Service for treating “pot-smoking” demonstrators in the Occupy movement with more respect than the nation’s war veterans.
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I have recently returned from visiting Egypt as the head of a delegation of academics, media personnel, politicians and senior ex-military officers from the USA. We met with the young people who initiated the two revolutions, the business community, the chairman of the constitutional committee, the religious communities and the Egyptian military, including the Defense Minister.
Egypt is in the throes of change. The 2011 Arab Spring ousted long-serving President Mubarak. Barely two years later another popular uprising, which saw an estimated 33 million people take to the streets, brought down his successor, President Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, when the army intervened to stop a potential civil war and to ensure that the will of the people was followed.
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray
Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray stepped away from his role as scandal-scarred leader and into the spotlight as agitator in chief against the federal shutdown during a dramatic confrontation on the Capitol steps Wednesday with Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid according to a Washington Post story today.
It was a new public posture for an embattled mayor whose 2010 campaign remains under federal investigation — but who is now fighting to keep the District government in business by exempting it from the ongoing shutdown.
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A future war can begin with an attack by enemy missiles on Israel Defense Force (IDF) General Staff headquarters in Tel Aviv, or a cyber attack on Israel’s traffic light system, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Center’s conference, called Israel’s Perils and Prospects, held at Bar-Ilan University, Gantz began by noting the massive instability rocking the region, which he said “guides us every morning when we in the IDF wake up.”
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh’s instantaneous reaction to President Obama’s Tuesday afternoon press conference was brutally honest. As the President continued to blame Republicans for the government shutdown with ramped up anti-GOP rhetoric while himself refusing to compromise; Limbaugh replied with succinct clarity.
“From start to finish what he said about the debt limit is not true,” Limbaugh said also using the term “over the top” to describe President Obama’s damning political rhetoric and general scare tactics.
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