Free Republic

Democratic strategist Dave “Mudcat” Saunders believes Donald Trump will beat Hillary Clinton like a “baby seal,” and that working class whites who haven’t already left the Democratic Party for cultural reasons will due so now for economic ones. “I know a ton of Democrats — male, female, black and white — here [in southern Virginia] who are going to vote for Trump. It’s all because of economic reasons. It’s because of his populist message,” Mudcat told The Daily Caller Wednesday. Saunders has experience working with Jim Webb, helping getting him elected to the U.S Senate in 2006 and advised his...

SAN DIEGO -- A Navy SEAL lieutenant failed to set an example for his men when he punched a hooded and handcuffed Iraqi detainee, a military prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements at the officer's court-martial. "In this country, we hold ourselves to a higher standard than the enemy," said the prosecutor, Navy Lt. Jonathan Freimann. A jury of six Navy officers is hearing the case of Lt. Andrew Ledford, who faces up to 11 years in military prison if convicted of charges including assault, dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer. Although the detainee, Manadel al-Jamadi, died in...