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President Trump Explains Why He Authorized the Attack on Syria

Late Thursday night, President Donald Trump gave an impromptu press conference to explain why had decided to authorize the strike on a Syrian airfield just a few hours earlier. On Tuesday Syrian President Bashar al Assad launched a horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children.

Overland Park girl reports man in silver SUV tried to entice her at bus stop

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Police in Overland Park are investigating a report of child enticement that occurred Friday morning. A girl waiting at her bus stop around 7 a.m. near 140th and Metcalf said a man in an SUV stopped and asked her to come over. She says she refused. The man then asked for directions to “Oklahoma” before leaving.

Rand Paul Breaks Rank to Criticize Trump’s Syrian Airstrike, Libertarians Applaud

While many across the nation heralded Donald Trump’s decisive action regarding Syria’s unwarranted use of chemical weapons, others are decrying the President for what they feel was a colossal foreign policy blunder. Worse yet, many with libertarian tendencies are lambasting the President for what they feel is a reneging of certain campaign promises that he made during his long and

Republican Leadership Voices Support for Trump’s Syria Attack

It seems that President Trump may be building some consensus with his foreign policy moves. Last night CNN’s Fareed Zakaria called the attack “quite intelligent” and “quite effective,” before then wondering if President Trump acted out of intelligence or out of a fit of emotion. Today Republicans and Democrats alike are praising the President’s attack on Syria. Senator Chuck Schumer

Russian Warships On Course Toward U.S. Naval Vessels That Sacked Syrian Airbase

Last night, after President Trump made a decisive move against the heinous Assad regime in Syria, who are accused of utilizing outlawed chemical weapons in an attack on his own people. The response to this reprehensible human rights violation was swift and bold. Fifty nine Tomahawk Cruise Missiles launched from a U.S. Navy Destroyer rained down on an airfield in

Republicans begin Calling for Susan Rice to Testify before Congress

On Wednesday evening Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) appeared on Fox News’ First 100 Days with host Martha MacCallum where he doubled down on his previous condemnation of former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, who he likened to “Typhoid Mary.” Cotton also told MacCallum that he hoped Rice would soon be appearing before a congressional committee to explain exactly how it

Trump Not “Polished” like Obama, but His Words have “Meaning”

This morning conservative pundit Mark Steyn may have delivered the most compelling and accurate accounting of what we’ve witness in the first 80 or so days of the Trump era. In an appearance on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, Steyn spoke to the Trump administration’s response to Syria’s chemical attack on their own people. Steyn first praised President Trump for

Rex Tillerson Gets Serious About Russia’s “Incompetence” in Syria

Bashar al-Assad’s vicious chemical weapons attack earlier this week was a sign of something larger and more serious permeating the Syrian landscape than many had imagined. Syria itself is in dire straits. Between al-Assad’s unbelievably heinous military efficacy, the rise and continued success of ISIS and their followers in the country, and Russia’s strange, albeit necessary presence in the middle

Breaking Story: Terror Attacks In Sweden Many Injured at Least 5 Dead (Updated)

UPDATE 5: Swedish authorities confirm that the suspect in the terrorist attack is still roaming free. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven told the media that someone had been arrested but police later clarified that the driver of the truck had not yet been found. “We have no contact with the person or persons who drove the truck,” Sweden’s top police

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