The Insurrection Act grants presidents extraordinary power to use armed forces on American soil, though its use remains rare in modern times. Here’s more on what the Act is and its history. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...The Army is updating its software directive and scrapping its existing policy on software funding that has routinely hindered software projects across the service. Michael Obadal, the service’s undersecretary, said the new software directive will be released “in the coming weeks.” The service plans to revise the document annually to keep pace with the rapidly changing environment. Meanwhile, canceling its existing policy governing how the service pays for software will allow the Army to “apply the appropriate type of money to the applicable use case.” “For many years, as many…
Read More...“We don’t do politics in the Department of Homeland Security,” Tom Ridge, the nation’s first DHS secretary, liked to say whenever reporters would ask how he handled pressure from the White House. Ridge, a moderate Republican and a Vietnam vet with a square jaw and gentle manner, was the governor of Pennsylvania when nearly 3,000 Americans were killed on September 11, 2001. The nation was gripped with fear and horror, and President George W. Bush put the bipartisanship-seeking Ridge in charge of making sure there wouldn’t be another terrorist strike.…
Read More...One of the most embarrassing moments of the extremely embarrassing Barack Obama presidency came in the context of the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, Obama vowed that “a red line for us,” which would thereby necessitate some sort of American intervention, “is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.” The 44th president continued: “That would change my calculus.” Except it didn’t. A year later, former Iran- and Russia-backed Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad crossed Obama’s “red line,” launching a lethal sarin gas on…
Read More...As we begin a new year, we wanted to take a moment to look back on what we’ve accomplished together in 2025, and to look forward to all that we will accomplish together in 2026. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Because of MoveOn members like you, we took action when it mattered. We pushed back against harmful fascist agendas, fought to protect democracy, elected progressive leaders up and down the ballot, and helped ensure millions of voices were heard. None of that happens without people willing to…
Read More...President Trump kicked off his first year back in office with an Inauguration Day for the record books, signing 26 executive orders that erased much of his predecessor’s legacy and began his own quest to remake the federal bureaucracy in his image. The Washington Times stories: White House
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