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I couldnt believe my eyes or ears when Ben Carson was asked about what his response would have been had he been president on 9/11. I couldnt believe his answer. He said that a better response than sending troops to Afghanistan to hunt down al Qaida would have been to make an all out effort to achieve energy independence. Carson was only echoing what he wrote in his book 'America the Beautiful': 'After the 9/11 crisis almost everyone united behind President George W. Bush for a reason. Whether Americas ensuing steps into war in Afghanistan and Iraq will be seen...

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Sunday advocated for Puerto Rico to become the 51st state. 'When you stop and think about it Puerto Ricans have been Americans for a century or more already,' Carson said at a rally on the island for Ricky Rosselló, a gubernatorial candidate in Puerto Rico's New Progressive pro-statehood party. 'You've already paid your dues,' Carson told a cheering crowd. 'There have probably been more patriotic Puerto Ricans than any other state. Look at all the contributions that have been made to America.' Puerto Rico faces a debilitating $72 billion dollar debt, but Carson said...

On Friday, a new media report scrutinized two more stories from the neurosurgeon-turned-politician. Last month, Carson detailed how he protected his white high school classmates the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination. Violent race riots ravaged Detroit’s Southwestern High, which enrolled more black students than white students. Carson, a junior lab assistant with a key to the school’s biology workroom, shepherded his frightened friends to the lab to shield them from the violence, he told the Wall Street Journal. he newspaper spoke with a half dozen of Carson’s classmates and his high school physics teacher: Not one...