A county official in the Texas Panhandle is now blaming a federal agency for starting one of the fires through carelessness. Tom Edwards, the county attorney in rural Motley County east of Lubbock, said on Friday that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives was responsible on Tuesday for sparking a fire that consumed 150 acres. “You can quote me on it: That bunch... 

An unprecedented power struggle at the heart of the Iranian regime has intensified after it emerged that the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had given an ultimatum to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to accept his intervention in a cabinet appointment or resign. A member of the Iranian parliament, Morteza Agha-Tehrani – who is described as “Ahmadinejad’s moral adviser” – told a gathering... 

Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, one of the half dozen or so Republicans running in the primary to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison next year, has a problem on his hands. While he has been positioning himself as a conservative, which is the only viable case to make in a Texas statewide GOP primary, the knock on him from the grassroots has been that he did not govern as mayor as a conservative.... 

The terrorists are setting up shop across the border in Mexico. But don’t worry. They’re only partnering with the drug cartels. 10 News reported: A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico. “They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence... 

There was a time when Charlie Crist was governor of Florida, considered a rising star in the Republican Party and talked about as a potential running mate to John McCain in 2008. But things change in politics. Crist became an independent and lost a race in November for the U.S. Senate to a new GOP (and Tea Party) rising star, Marco Rubio. So what’s a guy to do? Crist is now hanging out his shingle... 

President Barack Obama and his followers are “anti-freedom, anti-gun, anti-Constitution and anti-Bill of Rights,” gun-loving rocker Ted Nugent blasted during an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV. “And I’m anti-them,” he added. “But we’ll be clearing house soon, so it’s merely a bump in the road right now.” Nugent spoke to Newsmax.TV at the NRA’s annual convention in Pittsburgh,... 

The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China. And it’s a lot closer than you may think. According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America... 

Glenn Beck narrates the story of Good Friday and Easter to the music of Pink Floyd.  Read More →

After WWI, America emerged as the dominant global military and economic power.  The allied victory in WWII cemented her place as a global superpower, and when the Cold War ended, the lone global superpower. America has weathered many storms and to date has always landed on her feet.  There were never any illusions that there were people and nations that have sought to take the USA down.  With the... 

U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression. Households received $2.3 trillion in some kind of government support in 2010. That includes expanded unemployment benefits, as well as payments for Social Security, Medicare,Medicaid, and stimulus spending, among other things. But that’s more than...