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Marine Corporal Robert Mitchell administered first aid to his wounded buddies while engaging terrorists, including hand-to-hand combat. Benjamin Gonzalez threw himself over a fellow Marine to protect him from a grenade. Aubrey McDade evacuated to safety three of his wounded brothers by himself (pictured in the middle above). But, sure, to ABC’s Jonathan Karl a Trump rally is just like both Battles of Fallujah. Just as covering a Trump visit to France is like the Battle of Belleau Wood or D-Day. Oh, bless him. Karl, who lives in the Washington, DC bubble and apparently believes that masked-autocrat Muriel Bowser is...

Hillary Clinton had a chance to put to rest swirling questions about her paid speeches to groups such as Goldman Sachs during last week's final debate before Tuesday's primary in New Hampshire. She pointedly refused to take it. [Snip] But why did Clinton respond that way? There's the possibility - though I think it's very remote - that Clinton simply wasn't expecting the question and didn't want to commit to anything in the moment. [Snip] Why not release them, then? ... My guess is that in the speeches, Clinton acknowledges her various friends and acquaintances at Goldman Sachs (and other...

That the standards of transparency are seemingly higher for an NFL Super Bowl quarterback than for a former Secretary of State and presidential wannabe does not bode well for our republic nor speak well of the state of the so-called mainstream media. But the double standards regarding media treatment of Tom Brady versus Hillary Clinton are many and troubling. We should all be asking ourselves just why there is more concern and angst over Tom Brady’s use of slightly deflated footballs to get a better grip and improve his chances of winning a football game than regarding Hillary Clinton’s use...

'If we didn't do it, the whole place will be full of ISIS, and they'll destroy everything,' Denis Sipan told CBS News. When asked what it would take for her to give up fighting and go back to teaching, Ms Sipan replied: 'I don't think that's going to happen.

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - campaign_minute Hillary Rodham Clinton made fun of herself Thursday, telling "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno she almost didn't make it to his studio. "It is so great to be here, I was so worried I wasn't going to make it. I was pinned down by sniper fire," Clinton said after joining him onstage, referring to her claims—since disputed—that she dodged sniper bullets while arriving in Bosnia as first lady. Clinton later said she had "misspoke." As she entered, Leno's band played the "Rocky" theme, jumping off her statement this week that she is the underdog in...

New video of Hillary's dangerous spiral into sniper-infested Bosnia!

A video from CBS News had shown that Clinton's version of having come under sniper fire was not correct. -- The Hill, March 25 FIRST BLOOD: THE DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL MILITARY COUP OF 1993. My first combat while serving under Commander in Chief William Jefferson Clinton came on a chill Washington morning in January 1993. I remember it well. We had only been "in country" a short time; we'd barely laid out our bed rolls in the Lincoln Bedroom. We were just kids. Hadn't wiped the Arkansas mud off our boots and all hell broke loose. Across the Potomac...

Yesterday, CBS finally ran the Hillary "I dodged sniper fire in Bosnia" story. Yes, this is the same network which tried to throw a presidential election with the Dan Rather "fake but accurate" report. Although the story has been kicking around the blogosphere for the past two weeks, what does the entire incident tell us about, Hillary, her campaign and the mainstream media? Once again, the mainstream media, in this case CBS, followed rather than broke the story. Various blogs had already pointed out the latest whopper on the part of Hillary, yet CBS just aired the damning videotape. In...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has used a story of arriving in Bosnia under sniper fire to bolster her foreign policy bona fides, but the Washington Post retrieved a photo showing that upon landing, she actually was greeted in a customary tarmac ceremony, complete with a kiss for a native child. Hillary Clinton arriving in Bosnia in 1996 Clinton has declared on the campaign trail that a welcoming ceremony for the March 25, 1996, arrival in Tuzla was canceled, and she had to run from the airplane into an airport building for safety. The then-first lady's traveling party included 15-year-old daughter Chelsea,...

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (AFP) - The Lebanese army warned on Friday that it would respond forcefully if it came under renewed Islamist attack as sniper fire hit the refugee camp that has been the main battleground. But after overnight clashes, a fragile undeclared truce largely held, even as the Lebanese government took delivery of US military assistance to bolster its fight against the Palestinian militants of Fatah al-Islam. "The situation is calm today. The army is respecting the truce, but will respond forcefully and decisively if attacked," an army officer, who asked not to be identified, told AFP. "Last night,...

BBC World Service is reporting dozens of US Marines have been injured in a Blue on Blue incident in Nasiriyah.