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if the President of the United States and his government conspired with the Mexican government to deliberately let children from Central America transit through that country on their way to the United States. The evidence does suggest this: (1) the solicitation at FedBizOpps calling for “chaperones” for these children indicate that the government knew the in flux was coming and (2) it is highly unlikely that the Mexican government would have their southern border be invaded by Central Americans. What happened here? Did the kids explain that they were on their way to America? How and why did Mexican officials...

Today is Statehood Day for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the 10th state to join the Union in 1788. Today is also the birthday of General Henry Arnold, the only man to hold the rank of five-star general in two different services - the Army and the Air Force. He was taught how to fly by the Wright Brothers, and eventually founded the RAND Corporation and was one of the founders of Pan Am.

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Listen to Hillary Clinton laugh as she explains how she chose to knowingly save a guilty child molester from spending decades in prison Sometimes a public defender is forced to take a case they don’t want, but that’s not what happened here. At 0:49, Hillary Clinton says: “The prosecutor called me a few years ago, he said he had a guy who had been accused of rape, and the guy wanted a woman lawyer. Would I do it as a favor for him?”At 1:48, she says: “He took a lie detector test. I had him take...

The following is mostly satire. First Lady Michelle Obama said this past week that even with an Ivy League education, she struggled to cope with the nutrition needs of her family. Her key point, parents, is that while an Ivy League education qualifies one to tell everyone else how to live, it just can’t fix stupid. The First Lady also said that amnesty is the President’s “top priority” which means that he will focus like a “laser beam” on the issue and thankfully, like everything else he focuses on, nothing will happen. The Obamas have said that they want their...

Rep. Gowdy (R-SC) took a brief moment away from talking about the serious problems facing our country to tell the Maryland GOP about a “horrible dream” he had the night before. In Gowdy’s dream, he brilliantly roasts some of his Republican colleagues

The Armed American Radio broadcast with Mark Walters is on every Sunday 8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific. Coming to you live from the Crossbreed Holsters Studio. Find AAR on your local stationFacebookListen LiveThe AAR iTunes podcasts are usually available the following Monday Are you sad because the GunTalk radio show with the awesome Tom Gresham ended it's last few minutes, and you have to wait a week for another firearms-related radio show to appear so you can listen? Do you crave to hear from the experts across the nation about our current problems regarding twisted politicians inflicting their anti-gun agendas on...

U.S. and European diplomats join gay “pride” march in Greece, ignore plight of Syrian Christians By Julio Severo, with information of AP. Consuls of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland and Portugal took part in the third gay “pride” parade of Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki. Reportedly, the event drew some 6,000 people. Gay activists taking part in gay parade in Thessaloniki, Saturday, June 21, 2014 U.S. Consul Robert P. Sanders carried a banner that read “Diplomats for Thessaloniki Pride.” Diplomats joined this year because, according to AP, they “support diversity and freedom of...

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Summary of Obama’s IRS scandal In May 2013, the Washington Post reported that the IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups for additional reviews. Organizations with the words “tea party” or “patriot” were singled out for harassment, such as requiring them to provide a list of donors, details about their internet postings on social networking websites, and information about their family members.When this was first reported by the media in May 2013, Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that had conducted these illegal activities, claimed that only low level employees had known about it, and that...

Definitions of words and idioms that mean something else in Illinois; posted as a public service to the consumers of news. AIRPORT TRANSIT: The latest, quickest way to convey campaign contributions from the restaurant to City Hall. BAILIFF: A well-armed and well-trained state employee, tasked with the duty of keeping defendants secure and harmless throughout the trial, until the judge gives the order to release them at the end, whatever the result. BLACK BEAR: An illegal alien (to Illinois), traversing the state with impunity all summer, as no one dares accuse an endangered species of being politically incorrect. BLACKHAWKS: Employing...

A rural Ontario road became the scene of an unusually expensive car crash after an amateurish slip-up caused a driver to speed his rented Ferrari into a guardrail. “That’s not good; that guy has to pay for that now,” a voice can be heard saying in a YouTube video capturing the June 8 crash. The car, a Ferrari F430 costing between $100,000 and $200,000, is owned by Exotic Car Tours, an Oakville, Ont.-based company offering hourly or daily rentals of high-performance sports cars. The company’s website says it costs $460.65, tax included, to rent the Ferrari F430 for an hour....

<p>By now we’ve probably all heard propaganda sound bite from the homosexual movement, that “gay marriage” throughout America is “inevitable” and that if you don’t get on board you’re “on the wrong side of history.”</p>

Shortly after the US revealed that, in addition to aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships it was also sending a few hundred "special forces" on the ground in Iraq, contrary to what Obama had stated previously, Washington made quite clear it wants Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to embrace Sunni politicians as a condition of U.S. support to fight a lightning advance by forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Then something unexpected happened: Iraq's Shi'ite rulers defied Western calls on Tuesday to reach out to Sunnis to defuse the uprising in the north of the country, declaring...

My wife and I have a dear friend who is in urgent need of your prayers. Ann has had a variety of health issues for some time, but they have now worsened. She has been moved from a regular room into intensive care because of increasing problems with her liver. I've seen the power of prayer here many times, and ask you to join us in praying for God's healing touch for Ann.

Republican control of Michigan’s government didn’t prevent a minimum wage increase and an increase in taxes may be coming to fix Michigan’s roads. That’s left many wondering whether the GOP got outmaneuvered or was painted into a corner to prevent a minimum wage ballot initiative that would have been worse. It was both, combined with plenty of politics, wrote Joseph Lehman, president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and Michael LaFaive, director of fiscal policy at the Center, in a recent Wall Street Journal column: Careful economic analysis did not lead the Michigan GOP to hike the minimum wage....

One of the more famous of the early battle of the Revolutionary War took place on this day in 1775 when the Colonial Army faced the British at the battle of Bunker Hill. Although it was a British victory in the end, the American colonists inflicted much heavier casualties on the British than they suffered, and proved to the British they could - and would - stand up against the British army. Today's flag is known as the Bunker Hill flag.

In only a scene from a bad movie, The Pentagon has now stated that the violent ISIS Sunni guerilla insurgency that is destroying Iraq-have captured American made, advanced Stinger Missiles from abandoned U.S. military bases. President Obama hastily withdrew U.S. forces from Iraq in a move even former UK prime minister Tony Blair is now blasting. The missiles, ‘most likely captured in overrun abandoned military bases’, have the capability to shoot down military aircraft, defeat chaff counter measures, and can easily take down a passenger jetliner. Maj. Gen. Bob Scales (ret.) tells Fox News it may be as many as...

The following is mostly satire. Hillary Clinton, the Prince Charles of American politics (in more ways than one), has a new book out that she’s busy promoting. It’s called “Hard Choices.” She said, for example, her most difficult choice on the night of the Benghazi consulate attack was whether to have scotch, vodka or gin. In one interview, Hillary said that when she and Bill left the White House they were “flat broke.” She admitted to one interviewer that, "all the silverware we took from the White House were practically worthless". To escape their positively Dickensian condition, Hillary tried her...

On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln, the newly-minted Republican candidate for the United States Senate, addressed the Illinois Republican convention in Springfield. His remarks included some of his more well-known words: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." Although he lost the Senate seat to Stephen Douglas, he...

The Armed American Radio broadcast with Mark Walters is on every Sunday 8PM Eastern, 5PM Pacific. Coming to you live from the Crossbreed Holsters Studio. Find AAR on your local station Facebook Listen Live Are you sad because the GunTalk radio show with the awesome Tom Gresham ended it's last few minutes, and you have to wait a week for another firearms-related radio show to appear so you can listen? Do you crave to hear from the experts across the nation about our current problems regarding twisted politicians inflicting their anti-gun agendas on free Americans? Do you fear the way...