The global stability of every country is facing challenges as never before, I would expect the USA Congress to hold responsible activities and not inflammatory grandstanding.

Congress needs to end their political priorities in bizarre Congressional votes and committee hearings.

This is simply outrageous. The extremes have no place in the world today.

The Republican venom is more inviting for violent resolve than ever before.

September 20, 2015
By Amber Phillips

...Here are the five most contentious moments from Richards's appearance on Capitol Hill.

1. How much money Richards makes (click here)

In his opening statement, committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said he doesn't think Planned Parenthood needs federal subsidies; just look at Richards's salary, he said.
"I could be here a long time listing out fairly exorbitant salaries," he said.
When it was time to ask Richards questions, Chaffetz hammered the Planned Parenthood president on her salary. Here's an excerpt:

CHAFFETZ: Your compensation in 2009 was $353,000. Is that correct?
RICHARDS: I don't have the figures with me. But …
CHAFFETZ: It was. Congratulations. In 2013, your compensation went up some $240,000. Your compensation, we're showing based on tax returns, is $590,000, correct?
RICHARDS: That's not my annual compensation. I — actually, my annual compensation is $520,000 a year. I believe there was a program that the board sort of put together for a three-year — I'm happy — again, I think we have been extremely forthcoming with all of our documents.

The exchange seriously upset Democrats in the room.
When it was her turn to speak, Rep. Carol Maloney (D-N.Y.) said, "In my entire time I've been in Congress, I've never seen a witness beaten up and questioned about their salary" — and especially a woman, she said. "I find it totally inappropriate and discriminatory."...

This is what happens when Congress embarks on a witch hunt for no reason at all. The venom needs to end and the public hearings have to end.

November 27. 2015
Colorado Springs, Colo. - Police arrested (click here) a gunman who stormed a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs on Friday and opened fire with a rifle in an attack that left three people dead and nine others injured, authorities said.
The dead included one police officer and two civilians, Colorado Springs Police Chief Peter Carey told reporters about an hour after the suspect had been captured.
All nine surviving victims - five police officers and four civilians - were listed in good condition at area hospitals, Carney said....


This is what happens when Congress turns committee chambers over to McCarthyism.

I do not want to hear one more word in public about Planned Parenthood. If Congress has reason to seek charges then turn it over to the federal Attorney General.

NOT ONE MORE WORD IN PUBLIC. If it occurs I expect ethics charges in addition than those that should already be in the works from the September 20th committee display of politics.

I am still traveling.

Until later.

Troops out of Afghanistan now.

Daesh is the officers once serving Saddam Hussein. One of the first things the USA military should have done in Iraq was find and capture or kill the Iraqi military. They only wanted Saddam because the is what George W. Bush wanted. These Ba'athists should have been tried for war crimes along with Saddam a long time ago.

How could have the USA military missed this? Maybe they were too busy fighting a street war that could not be contained. There is no sense to putting troops in the middle of that again. Every sovereign country needs to secure their country, keep citizens safe while the coalition of Air Force continues to destroy the hiding places of the Ba'athists in Syria, that is if they aren't in Turkey by now.

8 August 2015
By Tom Wyke

...While attending (click here) the Iraqi army's artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words 'God is great.'

'It is forbidden by religion to bring the name of the Almighty into a defiled place like this,' Omran recalled being told by Maj. Taha Taher al-Ani.

Omran didn't see al-Ani again until years later, in 2003. The Americans had invaded Iraq and were storming toward Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's fall was imminent.

At a sprawling military base north of the capital, al-Ani was directing the loading of weapons, ammunition and ordnance into trucks to spirit away. He took those weapons with him when he joined Tawhid wa'l-Jihad, a forerunner of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq.

Now al-Ani is a commander in the Islamic State group, said Omran, who rose to become a major general in the Iraqi army and now commands its 5th Division fighting IS.

He kept track of his former comrade through Iraq's tribal networks and intelligence gathered by the government's main counter terrorism service, of which he is a member....

The suicide bomber are treating The West no different than those in the very same neighborhood where they live.

November 27, 2015
By Aminu Abubakar

At least 21 people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowds at a Shia Muslim procession near the north Nigerian city of Kano, in the latest violence to hit the troubled region.

The attack happened in the village of Dakasoye, some 20 kilometres (13 miles) south of the city, during a march by followers of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria....

More than 100 French Transit workers have been to Syria for training, huh? Daesh has big plans. Disable a western civilization and then take over the country as brutally as Daesh treats everyone else.

Baghdad is awash with US troops not Baath party revellers this year (click here)

Daesh are old Saddam Ba'athists. That means the old Iraqi military is still intact and taken a different name. Saddam had generals and intelligence and now all that capacity including developed strategies begun in France is in play.