The U.S. military demonstrated its global reach and effectiveness in the past month of crises, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said.

The U.S. military is probably the only organization in the world that could have handled the demands of providing assistance to the people of Japan in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami while also preventing a massacre in Benghazi, Libya.

BREAKING: Bellevue v. Bloomberg as SAF sues over ‘excessive’ NYC gun permit fee

The Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation has once again flexed its legal muscle on the far side of the country, suing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the City of New York and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in federal court over the city’s excessively-high permit fee simply to keep a handgun at home.

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/breaking-bellevue-v-bloomb...

Article by Dave Workman

RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR ATF?
Is a Congressman actually helping the ATF in its efforts to obstruct Darrell Issa's investigation into Project Gunrunner?
http://www.sofmag.com/maryland-congressman-running-interference-atf-gunr...

Shortly, the U.S. Senate will consider legislation to take a number of key gun-related offices in the Department of Justice and remove them from the requirement of Senate confirmation. The legislation is sponsored by anti-gun zealot Charles Schumer (D-NY) and weak-kneed Republican Lamar Alexander (R-TN).

S. 679 would give Barack Obama the ability to fill major gun-related Department of Justice slots with anti-gun partisans, without the pesky inconvenience of having to comply with the Constitution's requirements for Senate confirmation.

Consider the following:

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Is MD congressman running interference for ATF, DoJ on ‘Gunrunner?’

Is Maryland Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reforms, now running interference for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department (DoJ), on the “Project Gunrunner” investigation?

http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-seattle/is-md-congressman-running-...

Article by Dave Workman

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, warns the conflict in Ivory Coast could spillover to Liberia and have a major destabilizing affect in all of West Africa. The refugee chief has just returned from a series of missions, including one to Liberia at the border with Ivory Coast.

U.N. refugee chief, Antonio Guterres, calls Ivory Coast one of the most dramatic displacement crises in the world. As of now, the U.N. refugee agency has registered more than 120,000 Ivorian refugees in Liberia and several thousand more in Ghana, Togo and Guinea.

Naval leaders from twelve Southeast Asian countries attended the annual Senior Leaders Seminar (SLS) March 29 through April 1, in Bangkok, Thailand, for in-depth discussions on piracy and counter-piracy operations.

The conference was co-hosted by the U.S. and Royal Thai navies, and combined naval leaders from Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Singapore, Sri-Lanka and Vietnam.

An Afghan and coalition force killed several Taliban insurgents and detained several suspected insurgents in Sayad district, Sar-e Pul province, yesterday.

The target of the operation was a Taliban insurgent who is the shadow governor for Sar-e Pul province and key power broker in the north. He has ties to foreign fighter facilitation and suicide training camps operating in the province.