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Obama attends Navy Yard shooting memorial with victims’ families
President Obama honored the victims of Monday’s Navy Yard shooting at a memorial service on Sunday with the families. At the ceremony, Obama spoke about each of the 12 victims in the shooting and the other recent mass shootings in the United States. “I fear there’s a creeping resignation that this is somehow the new normal,” Obama said. “It ought to obsess us, it ought to lead to some sort of transformation.” The first lady, D.C. Mayor Gray, Navy Secretary Mabus, and Defense Secretary Hagel all attended the ceremony. Photo: The American flags surrounding the Washington Monument fly at half-staff as ordered by President Barack Obama following the deadly shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, Tuesday morning, Sept. 17. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
Why Syria Could Be the GOPs New Madrid Fault Line
Regardless of the ultimate decision, the debate over bombing Syria has exposed yet another deep fault line among Republicans in Congress. This is just one of many fault lines that threaten GOP control of the House and their chances of regaining a Senate majority and the White House in 2016.GWB But if the Dems falter, even slightly on the order of their idiotic complacency debacle in 2010, it could mean the not-so-Supreme Court and all branches of the Federal Government might fall under Conservative control for a very long time. It seems like yesterday when Republicans were virtually united during the George W. Bush years on the need for military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. The need to protect the world from weapons of mass destruction, protect a major source of our oil supply, and protect our sometimes albatross of an ally, Israel, overcame any doubts they may have had about the cost of two unpaid-for wars in terms of lives and treasure (they ultimately paid for both wars by borrowing money–some would call it stealing because they are clearly trying to find ways to avoid paying it back–from The Social Security Trust Fund. The “Bush Wars” are the only [...]
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