#SouthSudan Update: Obama Urges Calm, Reconciliation, Sends Small U.S. Force
US deploys 45 troops to South Sudan: White House http://t.co/3zJGr3uace via @YahooNews — Agence France-Presse (@AFP) December 20, 2013 President Obama has sent 45 troops — just to protect U.S. personnel and property — to South Sudan, and issued a statement: In 2011, millions of South Sudanese voted to forge a new nation, founded on […]
Quick #SouthSudan Update
BREAKING: UN says they have lost contact with staff at overrun base in #SouthSudan, some unaccounted for: http://t.co/sHuAbEwkyb … via @AFP” — Dee Faced™ (@HeavenLeeOps) December 19, 2013 My kids’ Christmas concert is tonight, so I’ll have to run, but here’s the latest Reuters update on the emerging crisis: South Sudanese government troops battled to […]
Anarchy in Africa: U.S., U.K. Evacuate as South Sudan Spirals Out of Control UPDATE: Rebels Hit U.N. Mission
While #PajamaBoy sips hot cocoa, REAL MEN SAVE LIVES! http://t.co/v10TOaKr5W #Hooah! @USArmyAfrica — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2013 The United States has evacuated non-essential personnel from its embassy in Juba, South Sudan, British nationals are being evacuated, and people are trying to make sense of the crisis that developed suddenly over the weekend: […]
Hillary Clinton: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!
At last, the international criminal Hillary Clinton may be brought to justice! http://t.co/5Ri2R917Z0 @jnewby1956 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 18, 2013 If you’re old enough to remember Watergate, you remember that line — “GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!” — from the “Doonesbury” cartoon strip about the accusations against Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell. And considering that […]
Russia Reverting to Totalitarianism?
Kim Zigfeld at American Thinker exposes how Russia’s state-controlled media are misreporting the Ukrainian uprising: With every day that passes, ordinary Russians are more and more cut off from basic facts about the world, just as they were in Soviet times. . . . All of the major broadcast TV networks are state-controlled in Russia, […]
Obama’s Millionaire ‘Green’ Ambassador to Finland Mocks Critics in Holiday Card
Bruce Oreck is a lawyer who got rich from his family’s famous vacuum cleaner business. He is an environmentalist who gave about a quarter-million to Democrats in the past two decades and who “bundled” about a half-million in contributions to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Oreck was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Finland: In 2003, Ambassador […]
Shocking Video: ‘Coven’ of Pro-Abortion Women Attack Church in Argentina
You may have seen this video earlier — Ed Morrissey featured it at Hot Air — but I didn’t see it until it was tweeted to me by Covenant College student Keifer Wynn and, because it was in Spanish, at first I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. “Abortistas atacan a católicos que […]
Britain Belatedly Admits It Has an ‘Islamist Extremism’ Problem
Woolwich, England, May 22: Killer shouted, ‘Allahu akbar!’ Gee, how did they ever figure this out? Britain plans to classify “Islamist extremism” as a distinct ideology, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, as part the government’s response to the murder of a soldier on a busy London street. Cameron said he would implement […]
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