A Ted Cruz Accomplishment

The Fort Hood Attack

U.S. Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, participated in a panel discussion with Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach regarding the dangers of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.

Ted Cruz speaks at Liberty University

Some think the Army is Prepping for Modern-Day Martial Law in Texas !

Don't know that there's much truth to this but view and judge for yourself.

By the way,  FOX NEWS sees it differently ... Click here to see what they have to say.

Something tells us, when the shit hits the fan I don't think
Info Wars will be the one bringing us the news !

November 22, 2004 the Second Battle of Fallujah

Filmmakers Garrett Anderson and Antonio de la Torre embarked on an 8,000 mile cross-country road-trip to interview members of Anderson's former Marine Corps infantry platoon. 

The interviewed recalls November 22, 2004 during the Second Battle of Fallujah with diverse opinions on different aspects of their war experience.

Dems push ATF to revive bullet ban

Congressional Democrats are pressuring the Obama administration to move ahead “swiftly” with a proposal that would ban a form of armor-piercing ammunition. In a draft letter first obtained by The Hill, Democrats are urging the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to use his “existing authority” to keep “dangerous ammunition out of our communities.”

 “We hope that the Bureau will swiftly review comments on the proposed framework and issue a revised proposal that will address the danger posed by handguns that fire 5.56mm and other rifle ammunition,” Democrats write in the letter. The ATF had sought to prohibit gun companies from manufacturing or selling 5.56 mm projectiles for M855 cartridges, arguing they are a threat to law enforcement officers because they can be used in handguns. But the proposal generated a firestorm of opposition from Republicans and gun groups, who denounced it as an attack on the Second Amendment that could open the door to sweeping restrictions on ammunition.

With the backlash growing, the ATF backed down earlier this week, shelving the proposal indefinitely to allow time for “further study.” House Democrats in their letter say they are “very disappointed” that the ATF delayed the rule. The proposal, they say, is true to the spirit of the Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act, which Congress passed in 1986 to ensure that officers do “not face extreme safety risk from firearm technology.” “It is critical to update this legislation as new technologies are developed in order to keep law enforcement officers and our communities safe," they write.

"That is why we urge you not to drag out this delay and to act swiftly to keep armor-piercing ammunition that can be used in handguns off the street.” Dozens of House Democrats, including Reps. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.), Jackie Speier (Calif.) and Steve Israel (N.Y.), are expected to sign the letter, which will be sent on Friday to ATF Director B. Todd Jones. Jones declined to comment Thursday on whether his agency might reconsider the bullet ban at a future date, but he defended the plan as a "good faith effort" while testifying at a Senate hearing on the agency's budget. "I want to make sure everyone understands that this was not — contrary to the blogosphere — an effort to completely ban that sort of cartridge,” he said.

While the ammunition has long been used by hunters in AR-15 rifles, the bullets can now also be used in handguns, which the ATF argues makes them a bigger threat to law enforcement officers. Republicans and gun groups railed against the ATF proposal, calling it a “backdoor” attempt to restrict high-powered rifles, which are popular among hunters and sportsmen. “A lot of us are troubled at the ATF’s process and intent regarding this proposed ban,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said. “It’s concerning to many of us that the new federal firearms regulations referenced that.”

 The National Rifle Association led the lobbying charge, helping to flood the ATF with more than 90,000 comments, most of them critical. “NRA members fought back as the tip of the spear,” Chris Cox, executive director of the group’s lobbying arm, told The Hill. House and Senate Republicans mounted a pressure campaign of their own, demanding in letters to Jones that the rule be withdrawn. “If law-abiding gun owners cannot obtain rifle ammunition, or face substantial difficulty in finding ammunition available and at reasonable prices because government entities are banning such ammunition, then the Second Amendment is at risk,” said a letter signed by 53 Republican senators.

 The White House declined Wednesday to weigh in directly on the bullet ban proposal, instead stressing that President Obama remains committed to reasonable gun regulations. “The president’s commitment to putting in place common-sense rules that will protect Second Amendment rights, but also prevent those who shouldn’t have firearms from getting them, is as strong as ever,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

8th of November Documentary: A True Story of Pain & Honor - 173rd Airborne Brigade Operation Hump

On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam were ambushed by over 1200 V.C. Forty-eight American soldiers lost their lives that day. 

Severely wounded and risking his own life, Lawrence Joll, a medic, was the first living black man since the Spanish-American War to receive the United States Medal of Honor for saving so many lives in the midst of battle that day. 

Our friend, Nialls Harris, retired 25 years, United States Army (the guy who gave Big Kenny his top hat) was one of the wounded who lived. This song is his story. Caught in the action of 'kill or be killed' - 'greater love hath no man to lay down his life for a friend.'

 Watch The Completed Video Below ....8th of November by Big & Rich

The Top Hat

“Lies, Lies, Lies” Dom Raso calls out Hillary Clinton's false claims

Dom Raso calls out Hillary Clinton's false claims of having dodged sniper fire as dishonorable and proof that she is unworthy to lead our country.

ISIS’ Worst Nightmare: An Axe-Wielding Badass Known As ‘Angel Of Death’

ISIS is now facing dual challenges in Tikrit, as the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Shia militias are both fighting to recapture the city. The most frightening single nemesis Islamic State militants face, however, is the notorious Abu-Azrael (“Angel of death” in Arabic). 

Azrael is a legendary commander from the al-Imam Ali brigades, an Iranian proxy group fighting in Iraq. He has become a cult figure, with Iraqi social media users creating tribute Facebook pages to him, and circulating images of Abu-Azrael holding axes, waving swords and abusing the corpses of ISIS fighters.

Abu-Azrael (“Angel of death” in Arabic)

Although his real identity remains unclear, local reports name Abu-Azrael as Ayoub. He worked as a university lecturer before joining the militia. It has also been claimed that he was, at one point, Iraq’s national Taekwondo champion, although with swirling hyperbole, the legend surrounding Abu Azrael is hard to separate from the reality.

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URGENT: 47 Senators Being Called TRAITORS for What They Did in Defiance of Obama

The letter, authored by Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, was signed by 46 other Republican senators. More senators may add their names at a later date. Cotton said that he felt this letter was necessary based on the terms of the deal that are known thus far, such as allowing Iran to continue their enrichment program and a ten-year “sunset clause” on any restrictions in the deal.

Judge Jeanine Pirro trashes Hillary for Hypocrisy

Judge Jeanine Pirro trashes Hillary for Hypocrisy Hypocrisy, thy name is Hillary. The Judge didn’t say that in the video below, but she might as well have. In just 5 minutes, Judge Jeanine Pirro devastates Hillary Clinton for rank hypocrisy when it comes to transparency, openness, and following the same rules she expects everyone else to follow.

 

S.C. National Guard Conducts Door-to-Door “Wellness Checks” (Gun Confiscations) Exercises

Operation Vigilant Guard which we exposed 5 years ago as an exercise to set up gun confiscations and intern citizens is being run across the country under the guise of helping citizens. Even though we've seen National Guard go door to door and confiscate guns after Hurricane Katrina.

Report raises questions about Hillary's email

A report released Wednesday by the State Department’s internal watchdog raises questions about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s claim that a large proportion of her emails were formally archived because they involved State employees using official email

The State Department Inspector General review highlights that State staffers using an email system known as SMART did not have their emails automatically saved for federal record keeping purposes. Staffers using that system had to formally designate individual emails for archiving and rarely did so, the watchdog found.

In 2011, “Department employees created 61,156 record emails out of more than a billion emails sent,” the report says. In 2013, even fewer emails — 41,749 — were designated for preservation.

At a news conference Tuesday, the likely presidential candidate argued that her decision to use a personal email account “for convenience” did not interfere with the department’s ability to retrieve those messages in response to Freedom of Information Act requests or for the historical record.
“The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department,” Clinton said Tuesday.
Transparency advocates said the report undermines the former secretary’s assertion.

“Her justification around FOIA requests and around preservation became that most of the documents were cc’d or sent to .gov or state.gov addresses used by employees and therefore were preserved and accessible to requests, ” said John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation. “This [report] suggests that is not reliable at all.”

In some State Department diplomatic posts and offices, trivial numbers of emails were marked as “records” to be preserved in accordance with department policies. State’s Bureau of Energy Resources designated two emails for archiving in 2013. The Population, Refugees and Migration Bureau sent seven such messages, according to the report.
It’s not clear from the report whether officials with whom Clinton traded emails were covered by the SMART system, which required message-by-message selection for archiving, or by other email systems which may have taken a more automated approach. The IG review says in a footnote that the SMART system was not used by State’s “high-level principals, the Secretary, the Deputy Secretaries, the Under Secretaries, and their immediate staffs, which maintain separate systems.”


Clinton provided 55,000 pages of emails from her private account to the State Department in December at the agency’s request. The full set of emails was not previously accessible to State when conducting records searches or for Freedom of Information Act requests, though some were discovered in email accounts belonging to other State employees.


Spokespeople for the State Department and for Clinton did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
It’s possible that some State officials are still archiving emails the old-fashioned way, by printing them out and putting them in paper files. The IG report did not attempt to quantify such efforts.
However, the IG report said a large number of employees seemed to be neglecting their archival duties because they did not understand them.
“Most mission and bureau employees who did not use record emails as intended told OIG they were usually unaware of what types of information should be saved as record emails,” the report said. “The Department does not give employees adequate training to distinguish between information that should be preserved as records and information that may be discarded.”


The report also said some State staffers acknowledged not marking some emails as “records” because that would make them more widely available. “Many interviewees expressed a fear that if participants in…a debate knew that their opinions would be permanently recorded or accessible in searches, they would not express their opinions in an uninhibited manner,” the report said. It was unclear whether employees feared disclosure within the department or outside of it.

One former State Department employee agreed there was widespread confusion about what email to save and what to discard.
”I think it’s an all-of-government problem with all of this stuff. People aren’t given proper instructions,” said the former official, who asked not to be named. “They don’t tell you how to manage these systems going in.”

Wonderlich noted that if every government employee assumed that every other email recipient was responsible for saving it electronically or on paper, then none of those records would be preserved.

“It’s absurd,” he said. “We don’t allow everyone to every messages sent to their inbox simply simply because someone may be able to reconstruct them from emails in some other office or agency.”

In 2013, the National Archives proposed a new email archiving strategy known as Capstone, under which agencies designate official accounts of high-ranking officials or decision-makers to be permanently archived in their entirety or by default. The Capstone approach remains voluntary.

Congress Speaks Out Against Obama's Proposed Ammo Ban

In this week's news minute from the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, Jennifer Zahrn reports that 238 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have signed a letter to the Obama Administration opposing its attempt to ban commonly used ammunition for the most popular rifle in America, the AR-15.

The White House Is Justifying Trying to Ban Certain Ammo Without Congress

The White House on Monday defended the Obama administration’s move to ban certain bullets used in a wildly popular rifle, a proposal that has stirred opposition from Second Amendment advocates and a prominent member of Congress.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is considering a ban on M855 ball ammunition, which pro-gun groups have said is among the most popular cartridge used for the AR-15 rifle and is frequently used for sporting purposes like hunting, because of its so-called “armor-piercing” capabilities.

“It would be fair to say, as we are looking at additional ways to protect our brave men and women in law enforcement, and believe that this process is valuable for that reason alone,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told TheBlaze during the press briefing. “This seems to be an area where everyone should agree that if there are armor-piercing bullets that fit into easily concealed weapons, that puts our law enforcement at considerably more risk.”

“So I put this in the category of common-sense steps the government can take to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans, while also making sure that our law enforcement officers who are walking the beat every day can do their jobs just a little more safely,” he continued.

Current law provides exemptions for certain ammunition that could be considered “armor-piercing” bullets – such as the M855 – if the ammunition is primarily used for sporting purposes.

The proposal is open now for public comment at the ATF level.

Gun Owners of America spokesman Erich Pratt called it an attempt to do through executive branch regulation what the White House couldn’t get done in Congress.

“In 2013, the administration lobbied hard to get Congress to ban AR-15s and other similar semi-automatic rifles. But even in a Democrat-controlled Senate, anti-gunners could only muster 40 votes, a clear minority,” Pratt told TheBlaze Monday. “So the proposed ATF ban on M855 ammo is simply an attempt by the Obama administration to make an end-run around the Congress. After all, if it can ban a common cartridge that is used for the AR-15 rifle, then it can substantially drive up the cost of using the firearm.”

Last week, the National Rifle Association and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, drafted a letter to ATF Director B. Todd Jones, saying the regulation being considered “does not comport with the letter or spirit of the law, and will interfere with Second Amendment rights.”

“ATF has now rescinded that exemption because repeating handguns that fire the M855 round are commercially available,” the letter said. “Yet this round is amongst the most commonly used in the most popular rifle design in America, the AR-15. Millions upon millions of M855 rounds have been sold and used in the U.S., yet ATF has not even alleged – much less offered evidence – that even one such round has ever been fired from a handgun at a police officer. The idea that Congress intended LEOPA to ban one of the preeminent rifle cartridges in use by Americans for legitimate purposes is preposterous.”

The ATF proposal states: “The firearm industry has developed commercially available handguns designed to use conventional rifle ammunition. This ammunition meets the content requirement of the definition, but previously was not classified as ‘armor piercing’ under the statute because there were no handguns that could ‘use’ it. As a result of the availability of these handguns, however, some conventional rifle ammunition now falls within the statutory definition and is properly classified as ‘armor piercing ammunition,’ despite the fact that the ammunition itself has not changed. Consequently, ammunition manufacturers have requested exemptions for this ammunition.”

Lawmakers won't be silenced over Obama administration's proposed ammo ban

Lawmakers are firing back at a proposal by the Obama administration to ban one of the most common bullets used with the popular AR-15 rifle, with more than 100 members of Congress signing a letter opposing the move on ammo.

Word of the  proposal by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ban .223 M855 “green tip” ammunition came out on Thursday and prompted an immediate backlash from sportsmen. House members from both parties and some law enforcement officials were not far behind.

“[The ban] will interfere with Second Amendment rights by disrupting the market for ammunition that law abiding Americans use for sporting and other legitimate purposes,” reads the letter signed by lawmakers and addressed to ATF director Todd Jones.

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