This afternoon, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 10, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, the House companion to Senator Paul's S. 299. The REINS Act is a much-needed piece of legislation that would seek to restore Congress' perogative over creating laws by requiring a stand-alone, up-or-down vote [...]
Iranian state-run TV showed images of what appears to be a RQ-170 Sentinel drone, which the Islamic Republic claimed to have brought down by cyberattack in its airspace near the Afghanistan border over the weekend. If it is the U.S. drone nicknamed "Beast of Kandahar," many of the worst fears of intelligence analysts could come [...]
The usual hawks in America are constantly on the look-out for a new enemy. Vladimir Putin's Russia was one candidate. He's a bad guy, of course, but hardly like the old Commies who ran the Soviet Union. And war enthusiasts who want the U.S. to run the world really don't have much complaint when other governments, including [...]
