Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underwent a medical procedure at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday evening and has resumed duty after temporarily transferring power to his deputy, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. Source link
“Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?” Marcus expectantly questions his (grown) boy. “Yes, Father”, Commodus replies. “You will not be emperor”, Marcus reveals. The great man’s negative declaration was clearly not anticipated by the next-in-line (by birth) to Roman rule, by which Commodus then breaks down and whimpers and embraces his father so […]
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the Constitution vests the “power of the purse” in Congress: “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law . . .” In specifying the activities on which public funds may be spent, Congress defines the contours of federal power. This […]
An active-duty U.S. Marine has been missing for more than a week after he was arrested for public intoxication in San Diego and later failed to report for duty. More alarmingly for the family of Marine Cpl. Charles Alex Benfield, his phone has been dead for more than a week, and his bank account has […]
Chicago police on Sunday said an officer was gunned down in the Southwest Side overnight while heading home from his shift. Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling confirmed that Officer Luis M. Huesca was shot around 3 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 56th Street. The officer was taken to a hospital in critical condition, […]
Perhaps a time-out is due? At the moment, that current model Ford truck tags in at $97,095. It is arguably money better spent once than quadrupled for a liberal arts degree in Wymmins Studies with a minor in Queer Theory and Conflict Resolution. At least you can haul things around in the truck, sleep in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. warning to Russia couldn’t have been plainer: Two weeks before the deadliest attack in Russia in years, Americans had publicly and privately advised President Vladimir Putin’s government that “extremists” had “imminent plans” for just such slaughter. The United States shared those advance intelligence indications under a tenet of the U.S. […]
I have been pretty hard on clueless Army Secretary Christine Wormuth during the year and a half I’ve been scribbling here. When you see her as the ballerina atop the melting, gooey, sticky sundae that is the current state of the United States Army itself, you realize the decline is thanks to the intrepid leadership […]
A Mississippi police officer who was arrested Wednesday on a shoplifting charge was fired one day later. Officer Robin Conner was arrested at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in response to a complaint from Dick’s Sporting Goods, according to WCBI-TV. Police Chief Joseph Daughtry said Conner was in uniform and was on duty at the time.“An […]
Rumors abound that Senate Democrats want to avoid holding a trial on the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by “tabling” or otherwise dismissing the House impeachment articles. But doing so would be contrary to the Senate’s impeachment trial rules and its own historical practice. The Senate has never refused to hold […]
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