An Arizona sheriff has allegedly ignored a Pentagon rule, collecting millions of dollars’ worth of surplus military equipment that is intended for law-enforcement use and distributing some of the gear to non-police agencies.
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has asked the Arizona Republic several times to complete a story regarding our tremendous success with the program as we wanted to inform the public. Each time the information was provided to the Arizona Republic they declined to write a story until today when this misleading story was posted. Here’s is the Office’s response:
The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be “hard days ahead,” President Obama said Sunday as alliance leaders insisted the fighting coalition will remain effective despite France’s plans to yank combat troops out early.
Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are stepping up their war of words over a looming lame-duck session that is already being described as “chaos in Congress,” as they gird for a marathon debate tackling everything from the debt ceiling to hundreds of billions of dollars in scheduled tax hikes.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate for President Obama’s re-election effort, slammed a recent Obama campaign ad on Sunday for its attack on Mitt Romney’s tenure at private equity firm Bain Capital.
House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday downplayed the supposed plan to resurrect Rev. Jeremiah Wright in an anti-Obama ad campaign, becoming the latest prominent Republican to knock down the proposal despite Democratic efforts to play it up.
House Speaker John Boehner likened his restless Republican caucus to “frogs in a wheelbarrow,” saying in an interview broadcast Sunday it’s tough to keep them all in line on any given vote.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the House budget committee chairman who has emerged as a top Mitt Romney surrogate and is talked about as a possible running mate, countered the Obama campaign’s fresh attack on Romney’s record at Bain Capital by citing the government’s failed gamble on solar panel firm Solyndra.
Following a Rangel endorsement rally Saturday in East Harlem, the embattled congressman’s campaign team made an unlikely confession to the New York Post — they had strong-armed state Senator Bill Perkins for an endorsement.
Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet.