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Trump’s Afghanistan: Wipe Out the Taliban’s Funding Mechanisms

The Trump administration has been working with the Afghan military to cripple a major funding source of the Taliban. Opium. The terrorist group generates an estimated 60% of its funding for weapons from the drug trade. But they’ve been forced to seek alternate revenue streams. US and Afghan forces keep bombing the poppy fields and drug labs. …

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Sen. Rand Paul Praises President Trump for Bringing the Troops Home

The United States went to war in Afghanistan and then Iraq when my daughter was a one-year-old. She graduated this year. She completed her first semester of College. Owns a car, has a job. And we’re still over there. Her entire life we’ve been engaged in the forever war in the Middle East. A series …

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GrokTALK! Show #156

This week Skip and Mike welcome NH Congressional candidate Jack Flanagan. Then, from circa.com, Sara Carter calls in to talk about the risk of a Benghazi-like attack in Afghanistan. Plus the news of the week filtered through the worldview of the Conservative  bloggers at GraniteGrok.com.  

Clinton a “Finest” Secretary of State? Ridiculous!!

President Obama says Secretary Clinton has been one of our country’s finest Secretaries of State.  Huh??  Is the President now smoking something other than cigarettes? Is the world safer, more peaceful, are threats reduced, is our country more respected around the world, are people more free than they were when Hillary took over as Secretary …

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Is it Time To Pull Out…of Chicagostan?

WND is reporting that since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan (2001 to present) 2,166 Americans have died there.  From 2003 to present, 4,797 people have been murdered in the city of Chicago. Chicagostan is more dangerous to the life expectancy of American’s than Afghanistan.  And in case you forgot, Afghanistan is a …

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