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@RepThomasMassie I condemn the barbaric attack on Israel and I affirm Israel’s right to defend itself. However, I will not be voting for House Resolution 771 today because: 1) It calls for sanctions on a sovereign country. Sanctions are a prelude to war and hurt the citizens of the country more than the government of the country that’s being sanctioned. And ultimately, sanctions create laws that will be used to prosecute American citizens (who engage in trade), not citizens of the sanctioned country. In short, sanctions do not achieve their stated purposes but do breed resentment of our country abroad....

@ChadPergram 1) Fox is told there are more conversations this week among Washington security officials if there were to be a trucker convoy descend on Washington, DC and specifically the US Capitol, ala the protests in Ottawa 2) That said, Fox is told there is some disagreement about how to approach a potential trucker convoy in Washington, DC. Fox is told the Secret Service would like Capitol officials to again put up the fence which encircled the Capitol grounds after the riot last year 3) Such a plan could include closing off the immediate environs of the Capitol complex and...

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A retired U.S. Navy SEAL has posted a video to social media in which he explains how he would resolve Democrat Joe Biden's mess in Afghanistan if he were president, with the post instantly going viral. In a brief video Monday, Jocko Willink imagines he was the U.S. commander-in-chief during an address to the nation about the Afghanistan disaster.

What to do in Iraq "And your strategy is?” asked one reader, who had read my recent, rather discouraging columns on Iraq, in which I condemned the Baker-Hamilton “Iraq Study Group” -- that proposes a smooth retreat before the West’s mortal enemies -- more warmly than I could ever condemn U.S. Democrats (and many Republicans) trying to find the vocabulary with which to “cut and run”. Or here is how the question was asked by an old-fashioned liberal with whom I correspond: “Mr. Warren, the question now is how to win the war. Even its proponents are in despair, and...

Justin Lee believes that the Virgin birth was real, that there is a heaven and a hell, that salvation comes through Christ alone and that he, the 29-year-old son of Southern Baptists, is an evangelical Christian. Just as he is certain about the tenets of his faith, Mr. Lee also knows he is gay, that he did not choose it and cannot change it. To many people, Mr. Lee is a walking contradiction, and most evangelicals and gay people alike consider Christians like him horribly deluded about their faith. “I’ve gotten hate mail from both sides,” said Mr. Lee, who...

BATON ROUGE -- Facing mounting pressure to strike pork-barrel projects from the state budget bill, Gov. Kathleen Blanco suggested this week that the responsibility for policing wasteful spending falls instead to the state treasurer's office and other state agencies. Blanco's comments have intensified the annual debate over legislative earmarks, which this year total more than $30 million in the $26.7 billion spending bill that awaits the governor's signature. State Treasurer John Kennedy, a frequent critic of the governor, accused Blanco of abdicating her leadership responsibility and said that if it were up to him, the pet projects requested by legislators...

The message was clear for state fire crews training near Campo a few weeks ago: Lots of rattlesnakes are out and active as spring molts into summer. p County wildlife and emergency personnel say the rattlesnake population is growing; others disagree. This sign at the Mission Trails Regional Park gives information about rattlesnakes, which may be found there. In the span of a few hours, the fire team spotted at least four rattlers, including one that had to be removed from near the portable toilets. "We are seeing rattlesnakes everywhere in the county this year, and they are very aggressive,"...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Boats at sea felt only a gentle swell as the Asian tsunami passed under their hulls — but by the time the first giant wave slammed into Sri Lanka's coast it was a monstrous 15 feet high, scientists say. A 15-member tsunami research team found that the wave struck with crushing force in some places, yet washed almost gently over the coast just a few hundred yards away, affected by shoreline and seabed features, the scientists said Saturday, releasing preliminary data at a seminar. The tsunami took an hour and 50 minutes to reach Sri Lanka...

The Duke of Wellington once defined the best test of a leader. His idea might be helpful to an organization presently needing a bit of help from a wise old head: the Democratic Party. The best test of a general, he wrote, was “to know when to retreat, and to dare to do it.” He knew what he was talking about, because he executed the most successful retreat in British history, from the battle that he had won in the summer of 1809 at Talavera in central Spain to the Lines of Torres Vedras that he had fortified just outside...