The Jerusalem Post reports eight rockets were fired at Ashkelon from Gaza on Monday afternoon. Two of the rockets hit the city, one hitting a house directly and the other hitting a yard. No injuries were reported, but three people were treated for shock, Magen David Adom paramedics said.

The Iron Dome system intercepted over 19 rockets fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip Monday. Over 60 rockets struck Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba, Sderot and other areas of the South.

A rocket fired by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hit a school parking lot in Ashkelon on Monday morning, causing damage to a building but no injuries.

The Iron Dome rocket-defense system intercepted seven rockets fired at Ashkelon and Ashdod and another launched toward Beersheba. One rocket exploded in an open field outside of Beersheba.  Earlier Monday, rockets landed in open fields outside Eshkol and Sha’ar Hanegev, causing no injuries or damage, Army Radio reported.

Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least ten civilians and two Islamic Jihad field commanders overnight Sunday, Palestinian sources reported. One of the strikes hit a police station in Gaza City. The IDF also hit over 80 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Sunday, including rocket launchers, tunnels, training camps, weapons caches and terror cells that fired on Israel in recent days, bringing the total of targets to 1,350 since the start of Operation Pillar of Defense on Wednesday.

The morning rocket was the first since a house near Kiryat Malachi was struck late on Sunday evening.

A witness on the scene, Gal Goldberg, 17, described the blast as the rocket landed on the home next door to his own, "When we heard the siren we entered a safe room, the blast shook the walls, we went outside and saw people running towards the house that was hit. We saw widespread wreckage," Goldberg said.

Hamas fired its most intense rocket salvos yet on southern Israel on Sunday, as it and other terrorist factions launched 120 rockets into Israel Sunday, including two Fajr-5 missiles at Tel Aviv on Sunday evening. Both were intercepted over the Dan region.

The IAF struck over 120 targets in Gaza, and targeted senior operational Hamas terrorists orchestrating attacks on Israeli communities.

Ashkelon came under heavy rocket attack on Sunday morning, with four rockets scoring direct hits. Terrified residents sought cover as rockets hit apartment buildings. A Palestinian rocket seriously injured a man in the Sha’ar Hanegev region. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital.  Five civilians traveling in a vehicle in Ofakim were injured – one seriously – by shrapnel from a rocket.

Magen David Adom said its paramedics treated 40 wounded people on Sunday, including seven people hurt by shrapnel.

MDA also treated 31 people suffering from shock, including six in Tel Aviv following rocket fire toward the city.

“Rocket attacks on Israel continue, but their ability to launch rockets is decreasing,” IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai said.

“Hamas is using the Palestinian population as a human shield. We have released footage of rocket fire from a mosque courtyard, prayer houses, public places and homes,” Mordechai added. “Many of their rockets are falling inside the Gaza Strip.”

Click here for more from The Jerusalem Post.

The Blaze is reporting a dead boy used by Hamas for propaganda was killed by Hamas rocket.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Hisham Kandil cried on Friday and kissed the dead child’s forehead, calling him a “martyr.” CNN called him “another victim of an [Israeli] airstrike.” Newspapers showed his photo as an example of the Palestinian civilians killed by Israel’s ongoing military campaign against militants in Gaza.

The only problem with that narrative is that 4-year-old Mahmoud Sadallah was killed by a Hamas rocket that fell short in Gaza instead of its intended target: Israel. According to an Israeli military statement Sunday, “Ninety-nine rockets fired from Gaza have crashed back into Gaza in the last four days. Hamas fires from civilian areas…and hits its own people.”

Pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon reviewed media reports on the incident and wrote: “The IDF did not launch any airstrikes in Gaza while Egyptian PM Kandil was in Gaza.” Israel had agreed to a temporary ceasefire while Kandil was visiting Gaza on Friday, as a gesture to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. Even so, terror groups continued firing on Israel during the diplomatic visit.

Content warning — graphic photo — click here for more from The Blaze.

Washington, D.C. — Representative James Lankford (R-OK) was elected today as Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee for the 113th Congress.   
 
"As a Conference of ideas, engaging our membership is key to exploring all principled solutions to the problems facing our nation,” Lankford said. “Gathering smart policy solutions from all members is critical for reforming our unmanageable tax code, creating long-term employment opportunities, reducing our crippling debt and revitalizing the stagnate economy. 

“The families in my home district in Oklahoma have commonsense solutions to resolve the issues of our day. Their ideas and the ideas from around the nation must continue to be represented at the leadership table and in the policy meetings of Congress. 
 
“Chairman Price earned due praise for his leadership of the Policy Committee over the past two years. Going forward, we must maintain positive momentum and fresh perspectives while serving our constituents and our nation. I look forward to meeting with our newly elected leadership team and my colleagues in the House to continue to discuss ways to build on the significant work we’ve already accomplished,” Lankford concluded.

The Republican Policy Committee Chairman is an integral role within GOP Conference leadership, following the Speaker of the House, Majority Leader, Majority Whip and Republican Conference Chair. The Policy Committee Chair affords its occupant a significant voice in formulating and promoting House GOP policy as well as a seat at the leadership table, while the Congress addresses our nation’s many pressing needs.   

Politico is reporting Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Monday the FBI was “derelict in its duty” when it failed to tell the White House immediately after learning about former CIA Director David Petraeus’s affair.

“Once the FBI realized that it was investigating the director of the CIA
or the CIA director had come within its focus or its scope, I believe
at that time they had an absolute obligation to tell the president,”
King said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Not to protect David Petraeus, but
to protect the president.”

“The fact is he is a key part of the president’s foreign policy team, maybe more than any other CIA director in recent times,” King added.

“He was going around the world negotiating various understandings and agreements, I’m aware of that. And to have someone out there in such a sensitive position who the FBI thought perhaps could have been compromised or was under the scope of an FBI investigation who may or may not have been having an affair at the time, that to me had to have been brought to the president or certainly to the National Security Council. If not, the FBI was derelict in its duty.”

“This is a crisis, I believe, of major proportions,” King added. “This is not the usual political thing. We’re not talking about the secretary of commerce or some undersecretary somewhere.”

Click here for more with video from Politico.

An exclusive interview with Jim Bridenstine in the last days of his campaign to win the 1st Congressional District of Oklahoma, Tulsa Today asked…
 
Question: What has been your greatest surprise in this race?
 
Bridenstine: It has been amazing, but grassroots retail politics wins.  That was a surprise to some consultants that discounted the effort, but that was how we won the primary. 

Door-to-door in neighborhoods throughout Oklahoma’s 1st District we were glad to meet with people in their homes and at every civic group anywhere.  In the primary, we were outspent more than 5 to 1, but we won on the ground.  Shoe leather counts especially when spent by a dedicated group of volunteers.
 
After the primary, Congressman John Sullivan has been class-act in every regard.  The primary was highly competitive, but once the voting was over; he became an unexpected powerful asset in the continuing campaign.  John Sullivan has sponsored events, organized fundraisers, worked the phone, met and spoke to contributors and in all ways actively engaged to help us keep the 1st District of Oklahoma in the Republican camp.  I cannot say enough of how much I appreciate his support and enthusiasm.

Question:  Your commercials speak to the core of Conservative values, but for the 1st District, how do you plan to help us in Congress?
 
Bridenstine:  First I am looking forward to working with President Mitt Romney in pursuing North America energy independence.  What is good for North America energy independence is good for Oklahoma.  We have to roll-back excessive regulations on energy companies.  We must open public land to exploration.  We must move forward with the Keystone Pipeline.  We must counter the demonization of “fracking,” the oil extraction process Oklahoma has proven safe for decades under clear rules established by the Corporation Commission.  Bad Liberal ideas [irrational fears] must be challenged so American companies may develop energy, employ millions and return the nation to prosperity.

Question:  In debate with your opponent John Olsen, what has been the most striking difference in policy positions?
 
Bridenstine:  John Olsen is a Barack Obama Democrat.  He is not your generally conservative Oklahoma Democrat.  When you hear him talk, Olsen supports more government, more taxes, more regulations, more debt, more deficit spending, and Obamacare in all regards.  He goes full left down the line with the President’s agenda.
 
I first thought, if he were really trying to win the 1st District of Oklahoma, Olsen would have a different message.  I was talking with Democrats yesterday and they continue to be astonished at the policy positions he has enthusiastically embraced.    
 
 
Question:  So while Democrats like Dan Boren were known for independent positions, John Olsen is going by rote to the left of the Left?
 
Bridenstine:  That is correct.  John Olsen is supporting Obamacare.  He is supporting what he calls investments in roads and bridges – what Obama called “stimulus” and now our debt to GDP is 105 percent which is well beyond the historical norms that enable economic growth.
 
This 1st District race is very much reflective of the race for the presidency.  I believe in responsible, limited government.  John Olsen is Barack Obama’s policy reflection.
 
 
Question:  If a resident of the 1st District may believe that their vote doesn’t matter – that Mitt Romney will win the presidency and you will win the 1st District and that they don’t need to make the effort to vote – what would you say to them?
 
Bridenstine:  Now more than ever in America it is critical that everyone votes.  No one can afford to be complacent.  I don’t believe it will be good for the country to have a close vote or one where the popular vote goes one way and the Electoral College goes another.  It is critical for all Oklahomans to vote because they are a part of the popular vote tallies.  We need President Mitt Romney for the future of the country and the difference between free enterprise or government control are clear for all to see.  We have seen it for four years.  We see it at the gas station, grocery store and on everyone’s utility bills. 
 
Barack Obama is a failure we must fix with Constitutional government, equal application of the law, free enterprise, individual freedom to dream and build those dreams daily.  Somehow, Obama Democrats don’t believe people build things, but somehow roads build businesses – they claim that with a straight face even when it sounds like a joke to most Americans.  Republicans believe people build businesses then those businesses are burdened with taxes that provide money for roads, bridges and the social programs big government loves. 
 
Further, in Katie Henke’s race for the Oklahoma House District 71 in Brookside, she won and was certified in a special election by one vote, but the Court then decided the race was too close to call.  Democrats often run to court when they can’t win at the polls.  That is why Republicans, Independents, and Democrats that believe in traditional American government must turn out to vote Republican at this great turning point for our nation. 
 
Our children will ask us how we voted in this election.  History will hold us accountable.

Over the weekend, Facebook took down a message by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) which highlighted the fact that Obama denied backup to the forces being overrun in Benghazi. 

The message was contained in a meme which demonstrated how Obama had
relied on the SEALS when he was ready to let them get Osama bin Laden,
and how he had turned around and denied them when they called for backup
on Sept 11.

Larry Ward, president of Political Media, Inc is the media company that handles SOS postings and media production.

Ward was the one who personally put the Navy SEAL meme up, and the one who received the warning from Facebook and an eventual 24 hour suspension from Facebook  because he put the meme back up after Facebook told him to take it down.

To read more click here for the Breitbart.com Facebook Censors Navy Seals to protect Obama on Benghazi-Gate. 

Graphics for this story were altered by Tulsa Today to more clearly draw the point for readers.  To see the original material visit the Seal site specialoperationsspeaks.com.