Share by  Anne E. Bremer, MCJ, MANAGING EDITOR LAPD Detectives Ambushed Outside LAPD's Wilshire Station June 25, 2013  in  Featured ,  Posts ,  Shots Fired  by  Anne E. Bremer, MCJ, MANAGING EDITOR According to the Los Angeles Times, two undercover Los Angeles Police Department detectives were wounded Tuesday morning in an ambush outside the LAPD's Wilshire Division station.  The detectives will remain unidentified.  They were waiting to enter the station on Venice Boulevard at about 4:30 a.m. local time.  The detectives were members of the Wilshire Burglary Task Force.  A gunman, who had been lying in wait, opened fire just after detectives used a key card to gain access to the driveway area.  The police vehicle was struck by bullets multiple times. While both detectives were hurt, the injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.  One detective had a graze wound to the head and the other to the hand.  KTLA-TV repo...

 CONSERVATIVEBYTE.COM 8 Hours Ago Libs Push Gun Tax Posted on June 25, 2013 by Conservative Byte I'm surprised liberals are just now thinking of this. Check it out: Liberals are trying every tool at their disposal this year to go after guns. They have failed on Capitol Hill to restrict the Second Amendment, so they are moving through the states to enact their agenda. The latest maneuver is to hike the tax on guns and ammunition to dissuade the law-abiding from buying firearms. It's the perfect storm of liberalism — more revenue for a bigger government and fewer people keeping and bearing arms. President Obama's hometown of Chicago started the movement late last year by enacting a $25 tax on new firearm purchases, which went into effect on April 1. Cook County stopped just short of adding a levy on ammunition. Continue Reading on www.washingtontimes.com  ... Libs Push Gun Tax http://conservativebyte.com/2013/06/libs-push-gun-tax/ John Hames

 THEBLAZE.COM 2 Hours Ago Inside the Zimmerman Trial: Jurors See Extremely Graphic Photos, Gun, Skittles on Day 2 by  Jason Howerton SANFORD, Fla. (TheBlaze/AP) — Jurors were shown tons of evidence Tuesday in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, including the 9-mm. handgun used to fatally shoot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a bag of Skittles and graphic crime scene photos. Prosecutors presented graphic photos of Martin's body, a police officer described trying to revive Martin as bubbling sounds came from his chest, and a police manager described how she helped Zimmerman set up the neighborhood watch. SANFORD, FL – JUNE 25: Diana Smith, crime scene technician for the Sanford Police Department, shows the jury a gun that was collected as evidence at the crime scene, during George Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court June 25, 2013 in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder for the February 2012 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Credit: G...

 THE FOUNDRY 4 Hours Ago Benghazi: Military Commanders Face Questioning - The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation by  Helle Dale Helle Dale June 25, 2013 at 4:35 pm The laundry room at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo: MCT/Newscom) On Wednesday at 9 a.m., Members of Congress will once more try to pry answers from U.S. military leaders regarding the disastrous absence of military response to the terrorist attack on Benghazi. The  hearing  will be held behind closed doors by the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The hearing has the potential to find answers to some of the most troubling questions regarding Benghazi. Witnesses will be retired General Carter Ham (commander of Africa Command at the time of the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012), Lieutenant Colonel Steve "Hoot" Gibson, and Rear Admiral Brian Losey. Gibson is the focus of much controversy. He was the Army officer who, while in...

 HOTAIR.COM 6 Hours Ago Issa issues four subpoenas in Benghazi probe by  Ed Morrissey posted at 2:01 pm on June 25, 2013 by Ed Morrissey While the world continues to play Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego with Edward Snowden, Congress continues its probe in another area of security and counterterrorism.  House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa reprimanded Secretary of State John Kerry's chief of staff for dragging his feet on requests to depose twelve more State Department officials, and  issued subpoenas for four of them to testify  before they had a chance to be "rehearsed or coached": House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Tuesday subpoenaed four State Department officials as part of his investigation into the administration's response to the Benghazi mission attack. In a sharply worded  letter  to Secretary of State John Kerry, Issa wrote that State chief of staff David Wade has been uncooperative since being first approached in mid-May...

 CURRENT 1 Day Ago Jonathan Alter on Hillary Clinton: 'I think in all likelihood she will run in 2016' - Joy Behar: Say Anything! // Current TV "Say Anything!" host Joy Behar and Jonathan Alter, author of " The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, " consider whether Hillary Clinton's recent  remarks at a private event in Canada  might signal her interest in running for president in 2016. "If there's gonna be a woman president in her lifetime, it's gonna be her," Alter says. Jonathan Alter on Hillary Clinton: 'I think in all likelihood she will run in 2016' - Joy Behar: Say Anything! // Current TV http://current.com/shows/joy-behar/videos/jonathan-alter-on-hillary-clinton-i-think-in-all-likelihood-she-will-run-in-2016/ John Hames

 NEWS.INVESTORS.COM 1 Day Ago Benghazi Creeps Closer To Hillary Clinton Scandal:  The decision to place U.S. personnel in Benghazi with substandard security was made at the highest levels of the State Department by officials who have so far escaped blame over the Sept. 11 attack. BENGHAZI CREEPS CLOSER TO HILLARY CLINTON An indication that the Orwellian-named Accountability Review Board (ARB) investigating the terrorist attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was an effort not to assign responsibility for the disaster but to enable those responsible to escape blame is the fact that ARB never bothered to interview the likes of Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy. ARB co-chair Thomas Pickering told CBS' Bob Schieffer on "Face the Nation" in May that he and his colleagues had ample opportunity to question Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself but concluded that conducting an interview with her was not necessary. "We knew where the responsibility re...

 AMMOLAND.COM 7 Hours Ago Biden Claims 'At Least' Five Senators Want To Change Their Vote to Support Gun Control AmmoLand Gun News Washington DC -  -( Ammoland.com )-  On June 21 2013 Vice President Joe Biden said "at least five Senators"  have contacted him to say they want to change their vote on gun control. They want to go from opposing expanded background checks to supporting them. According to  Politico , Biden was speaking to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas when he said the 45 Senators who opposed gun control have seen their approval numbers plummet. He said at least five of those Senators have called to him to ask,  "Can we do something about this?" Biden said: The calculus has changed, and so we're in an effort to try to work out how we can provide another opportunity for those who voted no to change their vote. We all know that's the hardest thing in politics, to change your vote. That's why we've got to get a rationale, ...

 THE HUFFINGTON POST 7 Hours Ago Angela Giron Recall: Signatures Verified In Effort To Recall Colo. Lawmaker Over Support Of New Gun Control Laws by  Matt Ferner A recall effort targeting Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) moved forward Monday when enough gathered petition signatures were verified by the Colorado secretary of state's office. The Denver Post reported that the  secretary of state's office verified 12,648 signatures from the more than gathered 13,400 that the group behind the recall effort, Pueblo Freedom and Rights, turned in earlier in June. The group only needed approximately 11,300 signatures. Gun rights activists in Pueblo, Colo.  are seeking a recall election of Democratic Sen. Giron for her support of a gun control package that Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law earlier this year including expanded background checks to include all private gun sales and transfers and a 15-round limit on ammunition magazines. "Giron's disregard for the major...