Once again the Republican-controlled Senate has surrendered its role as defender of the U.S. Constitution as it voted to confirm an attorney general who says illegal aliens have a right to work in the U.S. and partial-birth babies don’t have a right to life. The Senate took two votes on the nomination of Loretta Lynch: first,…

President Obama is refusing to call the massacre of Armenians of the Ottoman Empire genocide. White House officials defended his decision saying it’s necessary to maintain the cooperation of Turkey, a NATO ally, in the Middle Eastern conflicts. “As president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide,” then presidential candidate Barack Obama said in 2008. Not…

President Obama told us before he even got the Democratic nomination in 2008 what he’d do about the threat Iran posed to the U.S. and the world: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union,” he said. “They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed…

While in Panama recently, President Obama said the “cold war was over.” He made this assertion right before he unilaterally decided to drop Cuba from the U.S.’s terror list. Three years earlier during the 2012 presidential debate Obama and Mitt Romney were asked what they believed the greatest geopolitical threat to the world to be.…

While U.S. church goers wear orange group of Muslim’s tossed 12 Christians overboard during a recent crossing from Libya. Italian police arrested 15 people for the murder aggravated by religious hatred in the high seas assault. The survivors said they had boarded the small boat April 14 along the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard.…

Stop holding grudges. Don’t live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, “What you did to me is okay.” It is saying, “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.” Forgiveness is the…

For me, it is an exceptional find. At the bottom of box filled with old pictures from Del Norte County, under the flap, I realized there were some pictures, paper-clipped together. When I pulled them out, in my hands were photographs that dated back to the mid-20s, though I’m certain they are reprints. At first…

When asked Senator who he believes will be the likely 2016 GOP nominee, Senator Harry Reid didn’t say whether he meant the GOP’s candidates were unable to win, or if he meant his insult as a schoolyard diss. “I don’t really care,” Reid said in an interview with CNBC. “I think they’re all losers.” Reid…

This is jus’ a thumbnail sketch of Iran about its convoluted history with the U.S., and is by no means a complete picture. The Treaty of Commerce and Navigations signed in 1856, was the first diplomatic interaction the U.S. and Persia (now known as Iran) had. The treaty lasted until 1928. During World War II,…

A 2012 U.S. Department of State memo reported “the Government of Cuba continued to provide safe haven to approximately two dozen Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) members.” Furthermore it reads, “In past years, some members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were allowed safe haven in Cuba and safe passage through Cuba.” Now…