News of the Week for December 11th<\/sup>, 2016<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New York State’s Being Sued Over its Stun Gun Ban<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obama actions on public lands may be difficult for Trump to undo<\/a> New technology better than fracking could vastly expand oil reserves<\/a> Fed judge rules AG Healey must appear in Texas for Exxon deposition<\/a> Leonardo DiCaprio Just Met With Donald Trump on Green Jobs<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Federal court halts Obamacare appeal, deals setback to president<\/a> VA hospital left body in shower room for 9 hours <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Return To the First Island Chain<\/a> VA Scandal: 4 Quit After OK Veteran Dies With Maggots in Wound<\/a> ISIS declares Trump inauguration day “BLOODY FRIDAY”<\/a> VMI, Famed Military Academy, Giving Cadets Coloring Books for Stress<\/a> Pentagon Hid Study That Exposed $125 Billion in Waste<\/a> Risking Beijing’s ire, Vietnam begins dredging on South China Sea reef<\/a> Trump Combines Art of the Deal and Art of War<\/a> Inside the Ring: China Upgrades Force Projection Doctrine<\/a> The Science Says Putting Women Into Combat Endangers National Security<\/a> The 2 Largest Land Armies in Europe Tiptoe to the Edge of War and Back<\/a> Bomb kills 25 at Egypt’s main Coptic Christian cathedral<\/a> A New American Grand Strategy<\/a> Twin bombing outside Istanbul soccer stadium kills 29, wounds 166<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nNew York State is the latest jurisdiction to be sued in federal court on Second Amendment grounds over its stun gun ban.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nPresident Barack Obama could cement his environmental legacy by taking executive action to designate nearly 4 million acres of Western land as national monuments before leaving office next month.<\/p>\n
\nHydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, has revolutionized energy production in the United States and cornered OPEC. That cartel is currently attempting to restrict oil production and raise prices, but it faces the reality that American frackers can rapidly expand output. It’s a nightmare if you are a corrupt petro-dictator of any stripe, communist to jihadist.<\/p>\n
\nA federal judge has rebuffed an attempt by Attorney General Maura Healey to avoid being questioned in Texas by attorneys for Exxon Mobil, setting the stage for an extraordinarily rare deposition of a sitting AG.<\/p>\n
\nLeonardo DiCaprio and the head of his foundation met Wednesday with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss how jobs centered on preserving the environment can boost the economy.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nA federal appeals court put a key Obamacare case on hold Monday as judges begin to anticipate a President Trump, and move to give his administration the chance to change the Obama administration\u2019s legal strategy on everything from immigration to health care.<\/p>\n
\nStaff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida left the body of a veteran in a shower for nine hours after the veteran died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren’t followed.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nDonald Trump appears to have sent a message to Beijing: the First Island Chain will be held. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines will remain the Westernmost bulwark in the Pacific. The Hill writes: “Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Taiwan President Tsai Ying-wen, a conversation that breaks decades of U.S. protocol and risks a clash with China. … The phone call will almost certainly infuriate Beijing, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province.”<\/p>\n
\nFour staff at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs resigned after maggots were found in the wound of a Vietnam veteran who died in October. Another VA staff member insisted that the maggots did not cause his death.<\/p>\n
\nISLAMIC STATE has declared the day Donald Trump is inaugurated as US president “Bloody Friday” as it fears a brutal backlash from the new regime.<\/p>\n
\nTo “unwind and relax”<\/p>\n
\nMore waste in defense.<\/p>\n
\nVietnam has begun dredging work on a disputed reef in the South China Sea, satellite imagery shows, the latest move by the Communist state to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n
\nA month after the presidential election, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has executed his own political “pivot to Asia.”<\/p>\n
\nAlong with a large-scale nuclear and conventional arms buildup, China is upgrading its military doctrine to include guidance focusing on rapid military power projection, according to Pentagon intelligence officials.<\/p>\n
\nThe question we must ask now is: “Will the presence of a woman in combat negatively affect an infantry unit?” This is the only question that matters in this debate.<\/p>\n
\nA planned missile test over the Black Sea spurs a Kremlin threat to shoot down the missiles and possibly target the launch sites.<\/p>\n
\nSunday morning Mass was drawing to a close at the chapel next to St. Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of Egypt’s ancient Coptic Orthodox Church, when Magdy Ramzy said there suddenly was a “shattering explosion like nothing I had ever heard before.”<\/p>\n
\nThe world is awash in change. The international order, so painstakingly put together by the greatest generation coming home from mankind\u2019s bloodiest conflict, is under increasing stress. It was created with elements we take for granted: the United Nations, NATO, the Marshall Plan, Bretton Woods and more. The constructed order reflected the wisdom of those who recognized no nation lived as an island and we needed new ways to deal with challenges that for better or worse impacted all nations. Like it or not, today we are part of this larger world and must carry out our part. We cannot wait for problems to arrive here or it will be too late; rather we must remain strongly engaged in this complex world.<\/p>\n
\nTwo bombs exploded less than a minute apart, killing 29 people and wounding 166 outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Saturday night, in a co-ordinated attack on police shortly after a match between two of Turkey’s top teams.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n