The Afghan soldier who killed four French troops and wounded 15 was acting in retaliation after viewing the video of U.S. Marines urinating on dead bodies of three suspected insurgents in Afghanistan, according to an Agence France-Presse report.
Paul, a former Air Force surgeon, received at least $95,000 from military donors from Jan. to Sept. 2010.
Joseph P. Kennedy III today announced his intention to explore a run for the 4th Congressional District seat being vacated by a retiring Rep. Barney Frank. A possible candidacy by Kennedy, grandson of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and son of former U.S. Rep. Joseph P.
It was the kind of year that made a person look back fondly on the Gulf oil spill. Granted, the oil spill was bad. But it did not result in a high-decibel, weeks-long national conversation about a bulge in a congressman’s underpants.
This post is Bacevich's response to a question posed by the Council on Foreign Relations to four commentators: 'Was the Iraq War worth it? As framed, the question invites a sober comparison of benefits and costs - gain vs. pain.
Wall Street has become a battleground, defended by a battalion of New York cops and under surveillance around the clock. There's a war under way after months of protests and assaults by the non-violent warriors of Occupy Wall Street.
The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country's reputation.
A federal judge on Monday struck down a $285 million settlement that Citigroup reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying he couldn't tell whether the deal was fair and criticizing regulators for shielding the public from the details of what the firm did wrong. …
In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant. Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely. Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify.
The Navy’s newest aircraft carrier has a messy problem. Since deploying in May, the Norfolk, Va.-based carrier George H.W. Bush has grappled with widespread toilet outages, at times rendering the entire ship without a single working head. But it’s no laughing matter.
CEO Jeffrey Immelt, our Jobs Czar, had this to say about the misconceptions of those protesting Wall Street in over 800 cities across the nation by the tens of thousands, "I want you to root for me.
"The country is not in a crisis. This is an emergency," Schultz told ABC News. "There is a tremendous problem with small businesses in America getting access to credit. ... Right now we can't wait for Washington.
In prison, every time we complained about our conditions, the guards would remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay; they’d remind us of CIA prisons in other parts of the world; and conditions that Iranians and others experience in prisons in the U.S.
As Gen. David Petraeus retired from the Army on Wednesday, he received a 17-gun salute and was hailed across the U.S. news media as the strategic genius who organized the "successful surge" in Iraq and similarly achieved gains against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Air Force and Navy have moved into what has been the home of Army medicine since 1947. Enlisted medical training for all the services is moving to the new Medical Education and Training Campus, which will be fully operational in September.
Barack Obama should follow LBJ's courageous example and step aside, so that a more able Democrat can lead us forward……….Barack Obama has demonstrated that he either will not or can not actually fight to advance the causes that I and we believe in. He has again caved....
How is it possible to have these somber and well-informed discussions of financial supervision, replete with experts and high officials, and not one mention of the word "fraud?" What is fraud?
Why does the White House and Congress seem so hell-bent on killing off what is left of America's "Greatest Generation" — by making cuts to the Social Security payments that we depend upon to stay alive?
After the death of photojournalist and friend Tim Hetherington in Libya, Junger resolves to cease front-line reporting. But war, he says, remains one of humanity's master narratives.
Despite the naysayers, the systems finances are sound. There is a saying that if you repeat something often enough it becomes the truth. Nothing better illustrates that point than the notion that Social Security will be bankrupted by the boomers.
The White House is considering adopting a temporary Social Security tax cut on employers to stimulate the economy as part of the debt ceiling negotiations with the Republicans, according to a Bloomberg News article. If the Administration so much as puts another Social Security ta …
Three Army judges are weighing a question that hasn't cropped up in decades: whether a civilian contractor working for the U.S. military can be tried in a military court. The issue eventually could end up at the Supreme Court.
A civil liberties group plans to provide free representation to a 35-year-old Colorado man who faces criminal prosecution and a jail sentence for displaying his middle finger to a Colorado State Patrol trooper.
The United States turned to nation-building in Afghanistan, complete with a dissimulating narrative of liberating women, and importing human rights and democracy, when it failed to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive".
Useful, fun, cool, inexpensive: these words described the small pickup truck market in the United States circa 1985.
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Military donors giving cash to Paul campaign - Navy Times
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