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Navy veteran James Williams, who was in the service for 21 years, traveled to the Capital on Tuesday to present the Dream Defenders with thousands of signed petitions. Williams, who is now retired and lives in Brazil, said that when he heard about injustice in two cases -- Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander -- he had to take action. "It's not right," said Williams, 65, who was a U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class. "If we don't say anything, it will continue." Williams efforts also further demonstrate the impact of social media and reaching a global audience online to tell...

Here we see one of the most powerful gatherings of highest level IT company owners and founders coming together in a lightly veiled advocacy of greatly increased immigration and AMNESTY for those illegals already here . They are openly using imagery of the United States Marine Corps to accomplish this goal . The is only marginally ‘legal’ or permissible under U.S.M.C. regulations and restrictions on the use of U.S.M.C. imagery . The undocumented boy featured in this clip is NOT a Marine , he has not earned the right (yet) to use these images in any way . What is...

Commercial flight with a pet carrier 99.7% cheaper... Although über-patriot Allen West first made clear to Mark Levin (on his radio show Monday 8/11) that he's loathe to engage in 'small ball' with some of the more petty White House scandals, he nonetheless was asked 'how do you justify' the latest Obama middle-finger-to-America -namely, the shipping of 'Bo' the dog to Martha's Vineyard via two exotic, VERY expensive-to-operate Marine VTOL aircraft... West responded 'You don't' justify it- labeling it 'an outrage'. With Obama -in West's eyes- 'It's not about serving... it's about being served.' He then described today's 'progressive' debt + money-printing-and-spending...

Anti-Assad rebels from the Jabhat al-Nusra Front are reported to have carried out a raid on the Syrian town of Tal Abyad near the Turkish border this past week. Rebel troops are said to have gone door-to-door killing everyone they encountered—including an estimated 450 women, children, and elderly men. The Jabhat al-Nusra Front is one of the groups receiving military assistance from the Obama Administration and was visited earlier this year by Senator John McCain (R-Ariz) for a photo op. McCain hastened to mention that “the reports of the massacre have yet to be confirmed by the Administration. Even if...

The construction of an advanced early missile warning radar will begin on Tuesday in central Russia to enhance the capabilities of the country's missile defenses, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. The new Voronezh-class radar will be built near the town of Orsk in the Orenburg region as part of the comprehensive missile early warning network to be completed in Russia by 2020, Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin told reporters on Monday. "In addition to the Orenburg radar, the preparations for construction of new-generation radars are underway in the Krasnoyarsk and the Altai regions," Zolotukhin said. The new assembly technology allows the construction...

Chinese armoured vehicles attend a live ammunition exercise during the China-Russia joint drill in Chelyabinsk in Russia's Ural Mountainous region, Aug. 12, 2013. (Xinhua/Tang Changjun)

MANILA - The Philippines said Monday it would insist on being allowed to use more US military assets to protect its sea territories, when talks on expanding a defense pact start this week. Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said the longtime allies had already agreed in principle to allow a bigger US military presence in the Philippines. He said the talks would focus on the rules for the greater presence, and the Philippines wanted to ensure the deal helped build its defence capabilities. "We stand ready to tap every resource, to call on every alliance, to do what is necessary,...

Why is the Obama Administration buying Russian 7.62×39 ammo among others not used in US forces weapons? By Fred Brownbill on July 27, 2013 in Constitution Legal Watch Save America Foundation campaign to save the 2nd amendment Writer: Kit Daniels The U.S. Army is now looking to stockpile nearly 3,000,000 live rounds of Soviet-era Russian ammo popular with civilian shooters. A U.S. Army solicitation posted July 18 on the Federal Business Opportunities web site asks for “non-standard” ammunition from vendors which includes: - 2,550,000 rounds of 7.62x39mm ball ammo - 575,000 blank rounds of 7.62x39mm ammo and - 425,000 rounds...

Military personnel at the Los Angeles Air Force Base were treated to a Diversity Day musical performance featuring three individuals dressed in drag. … Photographs of the event show an individual wearing a giant wig performing to a sparse crowd underneath the American flag. It’s unclear whether the individuals in high heels and form-fitting dresses are members of the Air Force. Observes one airman: “We can’t even have Bibles on our desks. This base is not a platform for political agendas. It is a military installation. The display was totally inappropriate and offensive.” Good thing they kept his name out...

Are the current personnel cuts the beginning of the end for the U.S. Marines? Could these actually be the last days of the U.S. Marine Corps? A decade ago, such a notion would have been absolutely unthinkable, but times have changed. The Marine Corps was already in the process of drawing down from a peak of 202,100 Marines to 182,100, and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is warning that the sequester cuts may force the Army to be cut down to a size of 380,000 and the Marine Corps to be cut down to a size of 150,000. Unfortunately for...

We’re sure they have a lot in common. Retired 68-year-old US Army general and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley K. Clark has won yet another esteemed decoration — he is dating 30-year-old Shauna Mei, the founder of online retailer AHAlife.com. Clark, who was married to Gertrude Kingston Clark for 45 years before filing for divorce last year, is spending time with the young New York-based entrepreneur, who graduated from MIT and worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker before launching her luxury e-commerce site. Clark and Mei were spotted together recently in the Hamptons, prompting rumors of a...

In an appearance on the Tonight Show, President Barack Obama criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for what he labeled a “cold war mentality.” At issue was Putin's grant of asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden and his refusal to allow the US to extradite him. “The whole idea of the 'reset button' was that our two governments would cooperate with each other,” Obama lamented. “Now, instead of doing what we ask the Russians have suddenly developed scruples against spying on citizens. They invented spying on citizens. They're such hypocrites.” The fact that the US has granted asylum to many defectors...

I teach at a small Christian college. One of my classes is Terrorism. I am looking for a good, well balanced documentary on Terrorism to show my students. I already have One Day in September and Waco: Rules of Engagement. Can you recommend any conservative documentaries? Thanks for any help.

#BreakingNews - Activists: #FSA downs Iranian cargo plane at #Damascus International Airport. #Syria

Shocking news has exploded across the blogosphere concerning the Benghazi scandal. According to several sources, it appears that Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett gave the order to stand down during the Benghazi attack, who has no legal ability to do so. The timeline for that specific evening is that the President was briefed on the attack and then he went to dinner. Afterwards, Obama had a two hour long phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Valerie Jarrett, whose official job title is Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, sat in on the phone conversation. She...

A person needs to understand how “Power” is distributed among the levels of the Triad. First level is the power elite who draw its members from three areas: the highest political leaders including the president and a handful of key cabinet members and close advisers; major corporate owners and directors; and high-ranking military officers. The Second or middle level (the Congress, the courts, the states), who implement corrupt policies and trample liberties, and the Third level are the masses (sheeple), you and I that get NOTHING. Most of the participants in the middle level are actually motivated by rather selfish...

Once more we learn of military personnel being punished for causing homosexuals in the military to feel bad. From Fox News: An Army chaplain’s assistant said she was accused of creating a “hostile and antagonistic” environment after she posted a message on her personal Facebook page calling homosexuality a sin. The soldier, who asked not to be identified, said her commander ordered her to either remove the Facebook message or face a reduction in rank and pay. “I haven’t taken it down and I won’t take it down,” she told Fox News. “It is frustrating that people are trying to...

It is being reported by the Wall Street Journal and other sources that the Department of Justice has finally filed charges against suspected attackers of the US embassy in Benghazi. However, the exact charges themselves and the number of suspects charged is still unclear. Andrew Ames, the Justice Department spokesman, said that the investigation is ongoing and, "It has been and remains a top priority." That last bit about being a priority is utter crap as we all well know. Obama and his administration do not want Benghazi being fully investigated. We know that Obama's administration sat on their hands...

Recall reading about how Valerie Jarrett  cancelled the Bin Laden raid three times? I sure do... So NOW the story making circulation is that she was de facto Commander in Chief on the night of the Benghazi attack... and personally responsible for the bizarre lack of US response on that day: Chronology of the evening of 9/11/12:  Around 5 pm EST, secure-channel reports arrived in Washington saying that our Special Mission Benghazi consulate was under attack.  Secretary of Defense Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen Martin Dempsey summoned the President,and briefed him on the crisis, face to face. Subsequent...

Think: could a 30 year old paper passport file feature digitally re-constructed photos?Without replacement of the actual.... image found its way into the digital file that matters. It’s the fact that the digital file itself is totally fabricated.What’s more, it’s not just .... that are forged and fraudulent. All “Stanley Ann Dunham� files are fraudulent..... is the manufactured mother presented by “Obama� to occlude his actual, living mother’s multiple identities, political posturing, and criminal history.“........ is as fake a person as her made-up son, “BHO II�.The Terrible Truth

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-Mich) rejected a request from ProPublica for a copy of a Defense Department document listing the countries the United States is currently at war with. “Who we are at war with is a matter for the Government, not the general public,” Levin maintained. “Under the Constitution, war-making powers are vested in Congress and the President. We will decide what role others will play if and when it becomes necessary to do so.” Concealing this information from the general public isn’t the only measure undertaken by the US Government. The US Army...

Confidential sources close to Conservative Report have confirmed that Valerie Jarrett was the key decision-maker for the administration, the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11/2012.

One of you must be willing to come forward to start a sequence of events that will put this current administration out of the business of ruining our country – your country. It IS a business to them.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev criticized Sunday the West's interference in the Middle East, describing it as a "bull in a china shop." In an interview with RT, Medvedev said he agreed with the interviewer that the West often purposefully pushed whole nations to the point of no return, beyond which it was very difficult to convince the warring sides to attempt negotiations. "Our Western partners sometimes behave like a bull in a china shop — they squeeze in, crush everything and then don't know what to do next. I often find myself astonished at their analysts and how inconsistent their...

The performance of popular U.S. rock band Bloodhound Gang was canceled over the weekend after one of its musicians shoved a Russian flag into his underpants at a concert in Ukraine, prompting outrage from Russian officials and calls for an investigation into the possibility that the flag fiasco was "ordered" by a higher authority. The latest came Sunday as United Russia deputy Sergei Neverov demanded that prosecutors get to the bottom of "who paid the group to desecrate the flag" at Wednesday's performance in Odessa, RIA Novosti reported. At the concert, bass player Jared Hasselhoff withdrew and showed to the...

Pico Dragon, the Made-in-Vietnam micro satellite, was shipped to the International Space Station ( ISS) Sunday to prepare for a mission in space, state-run Vietnam News Agency reported Sunday. Accordingly, the micro satellite, together with three other micro satellites of the United States, was carried by Japan's Kounotori 4 (HTV-4) cargo spacecraft. The two-stage H-2B rocket carrying the HTV-4 ship lifted off at 4:48 am Tokyo time (19:48 GMT Saturday), initiating a five-day journey to the International Space Station. Vietnam's Pico Dragon is programmed to capture images of the earth, collect space environment data and test communication systems, said the...

The successful raid on a Malay-Muslim militant camp in the remote jungles of Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south was a small victory for its embattled security forces. The only problem was that it took place on July 21 and 22, when a ceasefire was supposed to be in operation in the region. The Thai authorities and the insurgent group Barisan Revolusi Nasional Patani Melayu (BRN) had agreed on July 12, at negotiations facilitated by Malaysia, to refrain from "any aggressive actions" during the month of Ramadan from July 10 to Aug 8. The agreement covered the provinces of Yala, Narathiwat -...

The Philippines said Wednesday that US spy planes were providing crucial intelligence on Chinese military activities in disputed areas of the South China Sea. US Navy P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft frequently fly over areas that the Philippines says are within its legal territory but where China has deployed military vessels, said Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario. "I think it's of significant importance for us," del Rosario told reporters, when asked about the value of the information gathered by the spy planes. "We do have an interest in terms of what is going on with our exclusive economic zone, within our...

MANILA (AFP) – The Philippines said Saturday it is purchasing a surplus French Navy vessel to boost its forces in the South China Sea where it has an ongoing territorial dispute with China. The 26-year-old "La Tapageuse" vessel is likely to be the first of several French ships that will be acquired by the Philippine coastguard as it contends with increasingly assertive Chinese forces. The 54.8-metre (180-foot) patrol ship will cost six million Euros ($7.97 million) and is due to arrive in the country by April next year, a coastguard statement said. The ship, which is armed with two cannon...

Wikipedia/Co Tibbets - the Enola Gay What's in a name? Ships so often are named after women.  And even airships ... we call them airplanes. ;)  And the Enola Gay was one of them. This Boeing B-29 bomber was named after her commander's mother - Enola Gay Haggard Tibbets.   The commander's name back then in 1945 was  Colonel Paul Tibbets.   And the mission of this bomber hastened the end of the most deadly war in the 20th century, if not in human history  - World War Two.   (For an interesting set of statistics of causalities of war by...

It is now reported that there were numerous CIA operatives on the ground in Benghazi during last year's assault on the Consulate that killed Ambassador Stephens and three other Americans. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) contends that some of these operatives want to testify, but have been intimidated into silence. According to CNN reporter Drew Griffin, the Agency has implemented a full-court-press of monthly polygraph tests aimed at finding out if anyone has been talking to the media or Congress. Talkers reportedly have been threatened with termination or worse. Several have been reminded that their families' safety could be at risk....

Retired Lt. Col. Robert Macginnis’ book DEADLY CONSEQUENCES: How Cowards Are Pushing Women into Combat, presents the facts, studies and the history of why women should not be allowed into ground combat units. Despite the modern perception of the military fighting a high tech, Nintendo-type war, any prolonged action will require face to face encounters with the enemy. The experienced infantry officer argues with facts that women should not be placed in situations where they may have to fight in close quarters or serve in Special Forces. Society “Society at large” doesn’t have a clue. The political correctness, bovine excrement...

There was no shortage of candidates this week for our dubious Jerk of the Week honors. From Obama to Charlie Rangel to others, a lot of people vied to win the top honor. While many of those are individuals who could easily win every week, it is our solemn duty to highlight those whose conduct is most egregious. For that reason, our winner this week is Michael Shulan, creative director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Shulan started out the week strong, and nobody else managed to catch him in terms of sheer jerkitude. (Yes, I made that word up.) Shulan...

Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is no John McCain. At a town hall forum in her district on Monday that was sponsored by a local tea party group, Roby was asked by an attendee what she would do to counter the supposed abuses of President Barack Obama, whom the man described as ineligible for office, a communist, and a tyrant. Here's how the fellow put it: "What I need from you is to know what you can do, you and your fellow non-communist colleagues in the lower House, what you can do to stop these communist tyrannical executive orders laid down...

The dam breaks on Bonneville Power Administration's discriminatory hiring practices and whistleblower retaliation. WASHINGTON – The chief operating officer for the Bonneville Power Administration, suspended for discriminatory hiring practices and allegedly seeking to punish whistleblowers, insists her agency failed to give preference to job applicants who are military veterans as a result of an innocent misreading of federal regulations. Appearing before the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee on Thursday, Anita Decker said the misstep occurred because of a failure to properly interpret a May 11, 2010, White House memorandum on the agency’s recruitment and hiring process. Once the problem...

On his Friday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh dissected Thursday’s revelations about last September’s Benghazi scandal aired on Jake Tapper’s CNN program, saying that Republicans “Waiting for CNN to do this isn’t going to cut it.” According to the report, there were dozens of CIA operatives on the ground at the time terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate that resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Limbaugh said there was something more here: that the Obama administration was going around the law, and House Republicans, particularly House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, should be...

Aleksandra's Note: I had the pleasure of meeting RCAF veteran Norman Reid in Chicago in 1994 at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Halyard Mission, as part of a week long world-wide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of D-Day. He impressed me as a kind, soft-spoken, unassuming gentleman who escorted me to the D-Day activities on Lake Michigan that same week. I had hoped to keep in touch with Mr. Reid in the following years. I do not know if he is still alive and hope that if anyone does know, they will get in touch with me.These are the...

Here are some really good photos of the crashed Boeing 777 known as Asiana Flight 214.These include pics of the interior, exterior, landing gear, engines, and removal and loading process.

Athol, Idaho (NorthWest Liberty News) Patriots and Preppers of all ages and professions joined together in northern Idaho, at Farragut State Park, for the 1st annual “Northwest Patriot and Self-Reliance Rally,” sponsored by Oath Keepers. Over 1300 guests, and over 100 vendors and volunteers were in attendance over the 3-day gathering. Vendors from throughout Idaho and the northwest were there to provide the goods, while guest speakers traveled from as far as 1500 miles to attend the event. The days were filled with on-the-hour workshops covering topics about Survival Oils, Self-Defense, Sound Money, and Dressing a Rabbit for Dinner, to...

MANILA, Philippines - Taiwan has earmarked $110 million for the construction of a pier on Spratlys' Taiping Island, which the Philippines has also laid claims, set to be completed by 2015. The new project can hold frigates, radar-evading corvettes and Taiwanese Navy's Kuang Hua VI-class missile boats, according to reports by Taiwanese media on Monday. Taiping, largest among the Spratlys Islands in the disputed South China Sea, is the only territory that has fresh water. It has been administered by the Taiwanese government officially since the 1970s. Taiwan has long used the potentially oil-rich island as an arsenal with an...

I wish I was making this up, but if you want further proof that progressive liberals hate America, here it is. As reported in the NY Post, it seems that the iconic photo of firefighters raising the American flag at Ground Zero was almost excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The reason? The creative director of the museum, Michael Shulan, and other staffers thought that the photo was too "rah-rah America" and too kitschy. These details have emerged in an upcoming book, Battle for Ground Zero, by Elizabeth Greenspan. Shulan said, “I really believe that the way America will look...

Gone are the days when the primary role of the Pentagon was to protect the American people. Obama’s minions who control the halls of the Pentagon desperately want control of the information being reported. Their main concerns or in their words “threats” are the alternate news media outlets such as Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, and The Marine Sentinel who report on the truth. You may have noticed I left out Fox News, because I believe they are in with ABC, CBS, and NBC. When illegal, criminal scandals such as Benghazi, Fast and Furious, and IRS corruption happen, the American people...

Obama and the phony scandals neo-neocon July 26, 2013 Pat Smith has something to say to President Obama: The mother of a Benghazi victim is furious about the new White House strategy of calling the terrorist attack and many other scandals plaguing the Obama administration “fake” or “phony.” Patricia Smith, mother of Sean Smith, who was slain in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack, lashed out on “Your World” on the Fox News… “I don’t believe [Obama] anymore,” Smith said. “He’s wrong. My son is dead. How could that be phony?” According to Smith, she has been given no answers...

Which of course most definitely includes Judea, Samaria, Golan, Gaza, and its liberated capital city of Jerusalem.According to reports the EU's Islamist appeasing Catherine Ashton is concerned about Israel doing just that. As well they should.Ashton and her European collaborators are a bunch of dhimmi enablers of Islamic imperialism.Some key excerpts from the INN article:["Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, responded to the decision by saying, "The EU is concerned by reports in the Israeli media that the Israeli Minister of Defense has announced a number of restrictions affecting EU activities supporting the Palestinian people."Kocijancic...

Notice how the Russian VDV Airborne Paras jump without d-bags dangling outside the aircraft such that they can jump IN FRONT OF IL-76 JET ENGINES! By using drogue chutes they exit the plane clean and can have timers delay openings for HIGH ALTITUDE mass tactical jumps without trying to teach everyone belabored civilian skydiving stable body position skills. This means more Paras can jump from more doors and land closer together near their BMD light tank/APC to get into action far faster than U.S. Airborne equipment and techniques. And the VDV can jump with their IL-76 jets not having to...

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While we here at RightWingPatriot.com normally give out the dubious honor of Jerk of the Week to some self-serving progressive liberal, this week's honoree is so foul and loathsome that we've upped him to Jerk of the Month. Honestly, I could safely label this deranged individual as Jerk of the Year, but I like to keep my option open until the end of 2013. With his recent court actions, Jesse Ventura takes his place in our Hall of Shame. Jesse Ventura, a sad excuse of humanity, was someone who I liked long ago back in the 1980s. I was a...

WND Navy SEAL's father: Obama sent my son to his death Tells Michael Savage 'they knew something was up' Published: 10 hours ago The father of one of the 25 Navy SEALs killed in August 2011 when their Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan, told talk-host Michael Savage he believes the U.S. government sent his son and his colleagues to their deaths. After Vice President Joe Biden revealed that SEAL Team 6 carried out the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, Strange said the members of his son’s team gave startling indications to...

The US Navy – as are the rest of the services -- is in freefall and it hurts deeply to watch the disaster unfold. When I joined the Navy during the Vietnam War, the Navy was in a build-up as only a war can stimulate. After slogging my way through Aviation Officer Candidate School [1] (abandoned in 2007 so the Navy could save money by educating all officer candidates at Naval Station Newport, RI) and after a total of 18 months of training, I landed in my first Fleet squadron and two months later solely navigated my P-3B airplane [2]...

via Department of Defense celebrates Iftar meal at the Pentagon | Article | The United States Army. WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 15, 2013) — The Department of Defense celebrated its 15th Iftar meal, July 12, at the Pentagon. Attending the event were senior defense leaders, White House and congressional staffers, foreign dignitaries, defense attachés, imams, Gold Star families, and Muslims who work in the defense community. “The month of Ramadan focuses on a lot of things,” said Col. Thomas Waynick, the Pentagon chaplain. “Among them, focusing one’s heart away from worldly activities, the cleansing of one’s soul to free...