The Other McCain

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#SouthSudan 3 U.S. Troops Wounded as Rebels Fire on Transport Plane UPDATE: Four U.S. Casualties; Rebels Claim Overthrow of Oil Region Capital

Hey, @BarackObama: Sorry to interrupt your vacation … http://t.co/qjakck55cH #p2 #tcot #SouthSudan @AmPowerBlog — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 21, 2013 Damn. Just . . . damn. KAMPALA, Uganda — Rebel fire hit two U.S. military aircraft responding to the outbreak in violence in South Sudan on Saturday, wounding three U.S. service members and heavily damaging at […]

#SouthSudan: Please, Pray for Peace

Heartbreaking photo: Nuer girl shot in face in #SouthSudan violence pic.twitter.com/8JtsumFb85 via @jsolomon740 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 21, 2013 It has been said by numerous observers in recent days that South Sudan is the “world’s newest nation,” and most people in America have no idea how long and how hard South Sudan fought […]

#SouthSudan Update: Obama Urges Calm, Reconciliation, Sends Small U.S. Force

US deploys 45 troops to South Sudan: White House http://t.co/3zJGr3uace via @YahooNews — Agence France-Presse (@AFP) December 20, 2013 President Obama has sent 45 troops — just to protect U.S. personnel and property — to South Sudan, and issued a statement: In 2011, millions of South Sudanese voted to forge a new nation, founded on […]

Quick #SouthSudan Update

BREAKING: UN says they have lost contact with staff at overrun base in #SouthSudan, some unaccounted for: http://t.co/sHuAbEwkyb … via @AFP” — Dee Faced™ (@HeavenLeeOps) December 19, 2013 My kids’ Christmas concert is tonight, so I’ll have to run, but here’s the latest Reuters update on the emerging crisis: South Sudanese government troops battled to […]

Anarchy in Africa: U.S., U.K. Evacuate as South Sudan Spirals Out of Control UPDATE: Rebels Hit U.N. Mission

While #PajamaBoy sips hot cocoa, REAL MEN SAVE LIVES! http://t.co/v10TOaKr5W #Hooah! @USArmyAfrica — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 19, 2013 The United States has evacuated non-essential personnel from its embassy in Juba, South Sudan, British nationals are being evacuated, and people are trying to make sense of the crisis that developed suddenly over the weekend: […]

Hillary Clinton: Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!

At last, the international criminal Hillary Clinton may be brought to justice! http://t.co/5Ri2R917Z0 @jnewby1956 — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) December 18, 2013 If you’re old enough to remember Watergate, you remember that line — “GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!” — from the “Doonesbury” cartoon strip about the accusations against Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell. And considering that […]

Russia Reverting to Totalitarianism?

Kim Zigfeld at American Thinker exposes how Russia’s state-controlled media are misreporting the Ukrainian uprising: With every day that passes, ordinary Russians are more and more cut off from basic facts about the world, just as they were in Soviet times. . . . All of the major broadcast TV networks are state-controlled in Russia, […]

Obama’s Millionaire ‘Green’ Ambassador to Finland Mocks Critics in Holiday Card

Bruce Oreck is a lawyer who got rich from his family’s famous vacuum cleaner business. He is an environmentalist who gave about a quarter-million to Democrats in the past two decades and who “bundled” about a half-million in contributions to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Oreck was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Finland: In 2003, Ambassador […]

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