“The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."
Alex De Tocqueville -1835
| U.N. Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: An attack on National and Parental Sovereignty Shortly before the U.S. Congress broke for their recess, talk in the Senate of the resurrection of the United Nations Disabilities Treaty was being had – a treaty that was signed on July 30, 2009 by former Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice. In fact, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is trying to make deals with Republican lawmakers right now to make sure the treaty passes the second time around. Read More |
| Despite Obama-Putin friction, Hagel meets with Russian defense minister While President Barack Obama pouts over the disrespectful treatment he’s endured at the hands of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Pentagon noted that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoygo in Washington, D.C., Friday. At the same time, Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, joined the discussion which was dubbed the “Two-Plus-Two Talks.” Read More |

