NC Renegades

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This is great news. So Hillary, tell us about Benghazi.

David DeGerolamo

About 200 Americans under contract with the Department of Defense at Balad Air Force Base in Iraq are trapped by the al-Qaida-inspired jihadists who have seized control of two cities and are now threatening Baghdad, according to WND sources.

The sources, private contractors who have recently returned to the U.S. from Iraq, said Friday their former colleagues effectively have been abandoned by the U.S. military and are fighting for their lives against an army of jihadists surrounding the base who belong to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

The U.S. contractors are at Balad to help the Pentagon prepare the facilities for the delivery of the F-16 aircraft the Obama administration has agreed to provide the Iraqi government.

The surrounded Americans said they currently are under ISIS fire from small arms, AK47s, and rocket propelled grenades, or RPGs.

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The Tea Party quickly took credit for David Brat’s primary win over Eric Cantor this week. The only problem was that Tea Party groups did not support Mr. Brat or his campaign. So why is this a victory for the Tea Party and not a victory for people? Especially the real grassroots patriots who are responsible for this victory?

What does that say for the “Tea Party” movement when “representative” Tea Party groups take credit for someone else’s hard work? I call that desperation on the same level as the Democrat’s efforts to label patriots as Tea Party racists. So who really won with David Brat’s victory? David Brat, his real supporters and “We the People”.

David DeGerolamo

How national tea party groups missed the David Brat boat

Leaders of the Tea Party Patriots quickly chimed in on Twitter:

In a post on the FreedomWorks for America blog, President Matt Kibbe wrote, “If you stop representing your voters, they will hold you accountable at the voting booth. We are proud to stand with Dave Brat in his election and look forward to working with him to reform Washington, D.C.”

And the Madison Project’s Daniel Horowitz crowed in a statement that “just a few short weeks ago, the Establishment was working the media over trying to shut the coffin on conservatives and the Tea Party.

“But first Mississippi, and now Virginia’s 7th show that the people, and not the political class will not accept a growing government dead-set on expanding their power, and passing policies that do nothing but line the pockets of special interests,” he added.

So how much did their groups spend to help Brat win?

Zero.

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Tea Party struggles to repeat Cantor-style shock in Tennessee

The shock defeat of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a primary in Virginia this week has fueled hopes among Tea Party activists in Tennessee that they can stage a similar upset against Senator Lamar Alexander in August.

But the Cantor loss, while enough to shake Washington and the Republican establishment, may not be a sign of things to come as the Tea Party movement has yet to show this year it can find a consistent winning formula against Republican incumbents.

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As Iraq is becoming an Islamic state except in the three northern provinces held by the Kurds, the political spin is starting. Or continuing. Is ISIS part of al Qaeda? Does anyone believe that ISIS was kicked out of al Qaeda for being to vicious? Or is the political and media spin that ISIS is only Sunni jihadists correct?

The pResident will sleep very well tonight as another “crisis” is not going to waste.

David DeGerolamo

Al-Qaeda map: Isis, Boko Haram and other affiliates’ strongholds across Africa and Asia

Osama bin Laden may have been killed in 2011, but al-Qaeda – the umbrella Islamist terror group he founded – endures in many forms around the world.

Al-Qaeda kicked this group out for being too vicious. 

ISIS used to be known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the leading Islamist extremist group during the Iraq War. AQI controlled significant amounts of Iraqi territory during the war, until the US military and allied Sunni militias famously defeated it during the post-2006 “surge.”

But they hadn’t destroyed it.

Obama’s national security team under fire on Iraq, Bergdahl

President Obama’s team of national security advisers is under attack on Capitol Hill for not foreseeing the collapse of Iraq’s Army forces who have been routed by Sunni jihadists.