President Obama Wednesday announced that the U.S. is deploying up to 300 military personnel to Cameroon for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations against the militant Boko Haram terrorist group. In making the announcement the White House emphasized that personnel would not take part in combat operations and would be armed only for self-defense.
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A verdict has been reached in Iran’s espionage case against Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, though the reclusive nation failed to offer information about what exactly the verdict is and whether a sentence had been handed down. The closed-door trial actually concluded two months ago, and the delay in a verdict has never been explained. And now we have a verdict, but the only information about it from Iranian judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein is that a ruling in the c READ MORE
Front-running Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is a dominant factor in the nation’s political news stream. And given that “news” can help make or break a candidate’s campaign, we decided to look at this month’s news feed to date in order to determine whether it is helping or hurting Hillary’s campaign.
Of course, news can be biased depending upon the source, with some news coming from the left in hopes of helping her campaign, and some from th READ MORE
Interesting Associated Press article about Hillary Clinton this morning that highlights what may be Hillary’s biggest liability as a presidential candida READ MORE
The U.S. Presidential election is more than a year away, and yet the media has all but narrowed down the number of potential candidates to a dozen Republicans and a small handful of Democrats. As it stands today the Republican field is being led by a bombastic, P.T. Barnum-wanna-be style billionaire, who, it must be admitted, is mildly amusing. Leading the Democratic side is a career politician who has been pining for the White House since she was evicted from it in 1998.
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Looks like there’s a new emerging star among the field of 16 or so candidates seeking the Republican nomination for its presidential candidate. If political pundits are correct, Carly Fiorina was the top-dog debater during Wednesday night’s CNN-sponsored Republican presidential debate in Simi Valley, California. Ms. Fiorina, who has never held political office, reportedly trumped (pardon the pun) her more political astute colleagues on the stage, as well as front-runner D READ MORE
Today marks the 14th anniversary of al Qaeda’s 9/11 attack on the U.S. that took out New York City’s twin-tower World Trade Center, a section of the Pentagon, four airliners, and the lives of almost 3,000 innocent people. While the U.S. had been battling a variety of Muslim extremists from different groups since at least the 1970s, 9/11 marked the beginning of the U.S.-proclaimed “Global War on Terror,” which is essentially a war against all Islamic terrorist groups a READ MORE
Comedian Nicole Arbour can be considered this past weekend’s Internet provocateur, as her YouTube video “Dear Fat People” roiled the wrath of America’s plus-sized population. Nico READ MORE
Earlier this month we provided you the most profound quotes of the 17-and-counting Republican presidential candidates and interpreted what each quote might mean for the country should its speaker ultimately be elected to the highest office of the land. The August 4 blog was an exercise conducted to help our readers gain new insights about the candidates, their positions on impor READ MORE
Well, kids, 2016 nears and the race for the U.S. presidency is heating up fast. Seventeen candidates–and counting–have jumped into the Republican Primary soup pot, while only four are stirring in the Democratic Primary pot. So, who are these Republican candidates, and what will it mean for our great nation should one of them ultimately bring the presidency back into the Republican fold?
To try and answer that question the political pundits here at Hash It Out! have exa READ MORE