Senate passes massive $854 billion spending bill with no funding for Trump’s ‘wall’
There will be no government shutdown, or even talk of one headed into the midterm elections. The Senate, by a 93-7 vote, passed an $854 billion spending bill, the bulk of the funding going to the departments of More...
Senate passes massive spending bill to avoid government shutdown
Senate leaders rolled out a massive two-year budget deal Wednesday, pleasing both parties and preventing a government shutdown, but increases the federal government’s spending. The plan heads to the House. Majority More...
Conservatives praise Trump’s budget slashing of departments, agencies while others attack
President Trump unveiled his first budget, cutting various domestic programs and increasing spending for defense, homeland security and the building of his southern border wall. Some conservatives are praising the More...
Trump’s budget unsurprisingly increases military spending, cuts into some domestic programs
The White House said Monday that President Trump’s upcoming budget will propose a $54 billion increase in defense spending and impose corresponding cuts to domestic programs and foreign aid. The 10 percent More...
What is a neoconservative? Neocons and liberals are two sides of the same coin
Occasionally when I participate in political message boards, someone (certainly a liberal) will respond to my post by calling me a neoconservative. That is truly offensive to me because I am so far from that philosophy, More...
Robert Gates attacks President Obama over his ‘centralized’ power, arrogrance
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to promote his new book on leadership and Gates was asked what leadership qualities he would look for in the next president and Gates responded More...
Marco Rubio skips Senate vote on $1.8 trillion spending bill
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio missed Friday’s Senate vote approving a $1.8 trillion end-of-the-year spending bill and tax package after telling supporters on the presidential campaign that he may try to slow the legislation More...
Air Force says their running out of bombs, need more money
The U.S. military says its 15-month bombing campaign on the Islamic State is depleting its munitions supply and that additional money and other support is “critical” for “the long fight.” “We’re More...
President Obama shocks Israeli press with ‘New America’ remarks
Israeli television and print reporters said that “jaws dropped” following President Obama’s apparent defense of a Russian decision last week to lift a ban on selling high-tech anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, More...
$10 billion missile defense program dead after many failures
The US “wasted” $10 billion on missile defense projects which were “doomed for failure from the beginning,” due to a lack of analysis, a report by the Los Angeles Times says. The article More...
Pentagon reveals new railgun technology
The Navy’s latest weapon is an electromagnetic “railgun” designed to fire projectiles fast and far without using gunpowder as a propellant, the Washington Post reports. Unveiled at a Navy expo More...
U.S. GDP soars 3.5% as Pentagon spending climbs to 5-year high
The Obama administration may be patting themselves on the back with the news that the GDP exceeded positive predictions and rose 3.5% during the third quarter. On Thursday, the US Commerce Department announced that More...
Liberal Bill Maher and Neocon Bill Kristol spar over war and defense spending
Let’s get ready to rumble!! Image/Video Screen Shot On Friday evening’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, the liberal host took the son of the founder of Neoconservatism to task on the topic of defense More...
Government Shutdown will mean paid vacation for workers
Government Shutdown. That’s the topic du jour in the Newsiverse. But is a government shutdown as terrifying as these talking heads are leading us to believe? Maybe it is a very bad thing if you are one of the More...
Government Shutdown? That Thought Makes me Giddy!
Washington, DC—The Socialists in our Congress forgot the will of the American people was to stop the bankrupting of America. Rather than cooperate they want to let the government shut down. That of course would More...
How US Military Supremacy is a Soviet-Style Poison Pill
The federal budget has swelled to over $3 trillion and the $700+ billion per year military has been a target of Democrats and liberals in the war weary America after the Bush administration. A Rocky Vega article More...
More hypocrisy: the raising of the federal debt ceiling
Two weeks ago when the Congress agreed to raise the debt ceiling another $1.9 trillion dollars all I could do is shake my head. Yes, Mr Obama and the current Congress is way out of control and heading in the direction More...
