GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 08/12/2014

U.S. Navy booting Bibles from base lodges A June 19 directive from NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command) has resulted in housekeepers at Navy Lodges and base hotels being instructed to remove Gideon-placed Bibles from the rooms and put them in boxes that would be taken to donation centers. One of those housekeepers informed the American Family Association (AFA) of the new policy via an email.

America feels Obama's Malaise As U.S. jet fighters return to Iraq's airspace, political pundits carpet-bomb American foreign policy and President Obama putters around Martha's Vineyard, the nation's malaise grows increasingly palpable. This worsening mood crosses ideological divides.

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Hillary pretends she had nothing to do with Obama foreign policy Hillary Rodham Clinton made her most aggressive effort yet to distinguish herself from her former boss, President Barack Obama, rebuking his cautious approach to global crises and saying the U.S. doctrine has to go beyond "don't do stupid stuff."

Jewish community shudders after shooting of Rabbi A rabbi from Brooklyn, visiting family in Miami, is walking to temple on the Sabbath. He is suddenly accosted by two men and shot to death on a quiet street in Northeast Miami-Dade. Rabbi Joseph Raksin's murder is a tragedy compounded by the brazen and apparently cold-blooded nature of the crime.

Attacking Achievement New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves "progressive," is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that doesn't exist, even though there are plenty of other educational problems that definitely do exist.

Terrorists taunt America but experts say threat is real One British fighter mockingly says he was so upset about American bombing raids on jihadists like himself in northern Iraq that he took a selfie while buying Nutella to "comfort my brittle heart."

Holder inserts the feds into police shooting of black teen Attorney General Eric Holder says the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb deserves a full review.