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Joe HendersonJuly 19, 2016

If Democrats could have scripted the first day of the Republican National Convention, it would have looked a lot like the show on display Monday in Cleveland. Start with the downbeat tone that basically told America their world is approaching the last exit on the highway to hell. Or, put another way, WE ARE ALL […]

Jac VerSteegJuly 1, 2016

My eyeballs are still scorched from reading Tom Jackson’s column “No moving on from Benghazi horror.” I’m on the left and he’s on the right, but I love an opinion piece that pulls no punches. Jackson’s premise in the piece, which appeared in FloridaPolitics.com, is that, “The Obama administration failed at every step of the […]

Tom JacksonJune 28, 2016

And so, once more — perhaps for the last time — into the Benghazi breach. The House Select Committee on Benghazi released its findings on the debacle Tuesday, and it is sobering. Add the blistering sidebar by GOP Congressmen Mike Pompeo (Kansas) and Jim Jordan (Ohio) and you have the completest possible portrait of what […]

Melissa RossMarch 21, 2016

There’s been a string of Democratic victories, keeping the White House firmly out of GOP hands. Much of the country feels disenfranchised. Then, a federal ban on handguns is approved. It’s the final straw. Discontent swells into armed rebellion. Texas secedes from the Union, followed by most other Southern states, and a bloody civil war […]

Bob SparksMay 12, 2014

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives voted to create a select committee to bore into just what happened in Benghazi, Libya before, during and after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2012. Despite previous hearings by other standing committees, the select committee, unfortunately, is necessary. Congress has oversight over the agencies of the executive […]

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Joe Henderson: After RNC Day 1 — just not feeling it

Jac VerSteeg: Boots on the ground lead to bodies on the ground

Tom Jackson: No moving on from Benghazi horror show

A second Civil War? Florida author Sean Smith envisions the worst in “Tears of Abraham”

Bob Sparks: With or without Democrats, Benghazi probe will go forward