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David Cameron and George Osborne will be persuaded to part with the cash to buy a fleet of jets to hunt Vladimir Putin's nuclear submarines, which have regularly been patrolling the coast of Britain in recent months. Often the Russian underwater vessels have only been discovered after colliding with private boats and now Government ministers are eager to plug the gap in defences with aircraft to track them. Around a dozen top of the range planes will be bought for the RAF over the next two years. These are likely to include the US developed Boeing Poseidon P8, designed for...

GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) -- A Galveston stabbing suspect who left his alleged victim in critical condition is making headlines for what police say he did during his arrest. The search for 29-year-old Jonathon Glenn started when officers began investigating a Tuesday night stabbing in the 1300 block of 25th Street. By Wednesday morning, detectives had identified Glenn as a suspect and traced his whereabouts to a home in the 2600 block of Ave P and . When officers arrived at the home to search for him, Glenn ran out of the house and led officers on a brief foot chase....

A law enforcement official says three people have been arrested and two of them have been charged with capital murder in the fatal shootings of two Mississippi police officers during a weekend traffic stop in Hattiesburg. Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, tells The Associated Press that 29-year-old Marvin Banks and 22-year-old Joanie Calloway have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Banks' 26-year-old brother, Curtis Banks, has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder. Strain also says Marvin Banks also faced other charges. He says...

M. Simon of Classical Values responded to a recent posting concerning Obamacare by linking to a piece by Milton Friedman "The Drug War as a Socialist Enterprise". I confess to being so intrigued by the title that I read it to see where this came from. Socialism has a meaning: government ownership of the means of production. If Friedman's point was that there are two choices: free markets or command and control, this is true. But prohibiting something is not socialism. Many libertarian ideologues believe that drug prohibition is a net loss for the society emphasizing the substantial crime and...

Everywhere I look nowadays liberals are screaming about "bullying.” It's the liberal cause "du jour." Liberals hate bullies.Well I know a very big bad bully. He’s the worst bully in all the land. His name is Barack Obama. Funny enough, liberals don’t care about his vicious bullying. Liberal hypocrites just make absurd excuses for his bullying, because they agree with his politics. Isn't it ironic? The worst bullies of all are liberals- the very people complaining about the traumatic effects of bullying.Well I have a personal story that proves what bullies Obama and his socialist cabal really are. You see...

What's happened in the Republic of Turkey should be a warning for the United States vis-a-vis Muslim versus Islamists (both religionists and radicals) domestic and foreign.

Iran insists it doesn't punish people for their beliefs, but its prison population - and a scathing new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom - say otherwise. The bipartisan commission's 2015 report on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s incarceration and persecution of Christians, Baha’is, Jews and minority Sunni Muslims prompted key lawmakers to call for new human rights sanctions targeting Iran’s clerical regime, and urged President Obama, whose administration is currently in nuclear negotiations with Tehran, to lead the way. "If the Obama Administration wants to be serious about holding Iran accountable, it should be working with...

Pam GellerI was surprised and pleased, upon scouring the Internet, to find that Pamela Geller, the anti-Islam activist, is a looker. I would have supposed, listening to the many male commenters who have been denouncing her, that she must be partly bald, with most of her remaining hair sprouting from her nose and chin, and with the most repulsive, irregular facial features. But no, she really is attractive, and I say this objectively. My appraisal has nothing to do with the fact that I am considerably older than she is, and am finding it tougher to get dates. And yet...

From time to time, a news story will pop up somewhere that perfectly illustrates the demonstrable damage that political correctness (and the liberal definition of equality) has caused to conventional wisdom and society as a whole. Such a story presented itself this week when a man named Adam Swift, a British academic and described philosopher, offered his thoughts on the societal unfairness created when parents read bedtime stories to their children. Yes, bedtime stories. Swift believes that being raised in a healthy family dynamic (one in which parents read to their kids) gives the children who benefit from it an...

History is filled with surprising anomalies that catch us up in contradictions. Sir Walter Scott wrote in his poem Marmion about the Battle of Flodden Field: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practise to deceive!” The battle took place in 1513 while Henry VIII was in France fighting as a member of the Catholic League. His queen, Catherine, eventually to be divorced, organized the battle with success. Meanwhile, Pope Julius II styled Henry of England “The Most Christian King of France” and, although Henry would prove a disappointment in church matters, in 1521 the next...

Complete Headline: Monica Lewinsky is offered $1MILLION by Las Vegas sex museum for DNA-stained blue dress she wore during Clinton affair Monica Lewinsky famously kept dress stained with Bill Clinton's DNA She has reportedly been offered $1million for the 90s item of clothing Offer was made by the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada Museum apparently wishes to include blue dress in exhibition 'examining private relationships of people in power, gender dynamics [and] politics' Lewinsky, who was 22 at time of scandal, is yet to respond to the offer In late July, 1998, Lewinsky turned the uncleaned dress over...

In 2010, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visited the famous Gingerbread House Bakery in Kokomo, Indiana – but one photo from that campaign trail visit has not previously been released by the White House. A new collage of photos released by White House photographer Pete Souza features Obama reacting to Biden’s ultra-friendly interactions with a female customer in the bakery and the results are priceless. Biden, of course, has a history of getting “handsy” with women, more recently with the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.

Chief Judge Garland to the IRS's lawyer: 'Go back and ask your superiors whether they want us to represent that the government's position in this case is that the government is free to unconstitutionally discriminate against its citizens for 270 days." In a highly unusual public thrashing of a government lawyer for the Internal Revenue Service by the second highest U.S. court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked: “You don’t really mean that the IRS is free to discriminate against its citizens, do you?” The judges asked this question several times in several different ways of the Department of...

There is something very troubling about the announcement by Baltimore’s prosecuting attorney of criminal charges against six Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray. Although the prosecuting attorney, officially the state attorney for Baltimore, Marilyn J, Mosby, went on at great length in an effort to explain the alleged facts in the context of the criminal law, she also made it clear her primary goal was not to inform the public about the court proceedings to follow but rather to assuage the fury of the mobs in Baltimore’s streets, and that she was speaking directly to their anger:...

May 6th, 2015 It seems President Obama has sent his vice president and secretary of state out to sell his Iran nuclear deal to a skeptical public dismayed by early reports of its provisions. Key concerns are over the ten-year term of the arrangement, leaving Iran free at some point to legally pursue nuclear weaponry; the lifting of sanctions against Iran prior to its demonstrated compliance with the terms of the deal; and the lack of a foolproof inspection program that would feature unannounced and unrestricted access across Iran. Iran’s very public disputes with the administration concerning these issues have...

Senator and presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)argued US anti-terrorism policy should emulate Liam Neeson’s character in “Taken” during a speech in South Carolina on Saturday. Rubio called for a Middle Eastern policy of “working with out allies to confront Iran’s ambitions to dominate the region, and by standing firmly with the only pro-American, free enterprise democracy in the Middle East, the great state of Israel.” He added, “When people ask ‘what should our strategy be on global jihadists and terrorists?’ I refer them to the movie ‘Taken.’ Have you seen the movie ‘Taken,’ Liam Neeson? He has a line,...

“Southside With You,” a movie documenting the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama in 1989, has cast its main characters. Parker Sawyers will play a young Obama as he tries to woo a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson—played by Tika Sumpter—on a rendezvous to the Art Institute of Chicago, a screening of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and a drink on the 96th floor of the John Hancock building.

Nehemiah served in a pagan government as a believer in God. He was humble and respectful to the king, but proper fear of his king did not stop him from acting to save his people. He prayed to God and made a request of the king, asking for permission to go to Jerusalem to rebuild it. He also asked for letters that he might present to various governors for safe conduct, and even a grant for building materials. Not all the pagan governors were sanguine toward Nehemiah and his plans. Indeed, some were fiercely resistant to them. When Sanballat the...

The Talk Shows May 10th, 2015 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.THIS WEEK (ABC): Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson; Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Brett McGurk, deputy special presidential envoy to the coalition to counter the Islamic State group; Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.

Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she's faced as the first African-American first lady of the United States, saying she was held to a different standard than other candidates' wives during the 2008 campaign because of her race. Speaking at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Obama told the audience that when her husband was running for office in 2008, she faced questions which she said were not typical for other candidates' wives. "As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted...