Bruce Carroll is the President and Founder of Patriot Consulting. Bruce has been involved in politics and government since he was 14 years old, growing up in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
In addition to active involvement in numerous Pennsylvania Republican grassroots campaigns, Bruce was elected as the youngest borough councilman in the State of Pennsylvania at age 21 in 1992.
During his college years at Syracuse University (1986-90), Bruce was Editorial Page Editor, then Editor In Chief of the award-winning daily newspaper, The Daily Orange.
In September 2004, Bruce launched the successful conservative political blog – GayPatriot. The GayPatriot blog was an original member of the PajamasMedia blogger network and is one of the longest-running conservative blogs in the United States.
Bruce now is a popular Twitter political personality with his @GayPatriot profile having over 36,000 followers.
First, some context about this post: I live in Upstate South Carolina, less than 20 miles from downtown Charlotte, NC. I’m also an avid Jeopardy watcher.
Why is this important you ask? Well, ever since NC House Speaker Thom Tillis won the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate...
In what has become a nearly daily occurrence, President Obama summoned the media to discuss the situation in Iraq (and Ferguson, Missouri) from his vacation spot in Martha’s Vineyard.
The President seemed to take a victory lap on United States’ efforts to stabilize the Yazidi refugee crisis in Northern Iraq.
President...
Various news outlets are reporting the crash of a helicopter being used in the humanitarian relief effort for the Yazidi refugees in Iraq.
#Iraq
Army confirms helicopter crashed after mission to deliver aid
supplies to Mt. Sinjar. Up to 20 people on board when it
crashed.
— Jon Williams (@WilliamsJon) August
12, 2014
Jim...
In what may be one of his boldest moves ever, conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe crossed the border from Mexico into the United States dressed as Osama bin Laden.
“Do you feel safe?": Here’s a video of @JamesOKeefeIII crossing
the US – Mexico border dressed as Osama Bin Laden: https://t.co/8NXtjf8yw9
— Josiah Daniel Ryan...
Jonathan Krohn has become to the first western journalist to reach the mountains in Northern Iraq where tens of thousands of Yazidis, a Middle Eastern religious sect, took flight to escape the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces that moved into the Kurdish parts of Iraq last week.
Krohn describes...
President Obama gave a press conference this morning on Iraq before heading out for vacation:
A particularly controversial portion was the assertion (starting at 7:50 of video) that it wasn’t his decision to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Obama says puzzled by second-guessing of pulling out Iraq
troops: "As if...
This has been a particularly troubling week for Democrats’ bad behavior on display for the public.
First, as Professor Jacobson reported yesterday, a plagiarizing national Democrat politician had to step aside (no, not Joe Biden). But Walsh is just the tip of the iceberg for Democrats this week.
Probably the most shocking...
Never mind the turmoil in Iraq, Syria, Israel/Gaza, Western Africa and the imminent threat to Ukraine that Russia poses… there seems to be another war brewing.
Earlier today, the President of Azerbaijan published a serious of very threatening tweets relative to neighboring Armenia.
The picture observed on the contact line during the last...
Late Wednesday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control went into emergency mode — declaring a Level 1 activation of its Emergency Operations Center, it’s most serious posture in a public health emergency.
In CDC "command" ctr at the moment it was activated to level 1,
the highest response. full report @AC360...
Reports are coming from Afghanistan today about a brutal shooting of American military personnel at an Afghan-NATO training base in Kabul.
From The New York Times:
A United States Army major general was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier, shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of...
Things just aren’t good on any front involving the relationship between the United States and Russia. The nearly-hot war between Russia and Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea and the downing of Malaysian Flight 17 are capturing the main headlines. But there’s other grim news as well.
First, the landmark arms...
It’s happening again. Just when you think he’s gone into the sunset — the ‘Romney in 2016’ wave of hysteria sweeps across pundit land.
So here we are again this weekend asking ourselves — Will Mitt be the GOP nominee in 2016?
From the FRONT PAGE of The Washington...
Former Democratic Congressman and outspoken liberal Barney Frank has some surprisingly harsh words for President Barack Obama.
Frank was interviewed recently by The Huffington Post:
“The rollout w...
Two Americans who are infected with the Ebola virus in Africa are being flown back to the United States for treatment.
A private jet equipped with a quarantine pod left Cartersville, Ga., Thursday afternoon headed...
In extraordinary backtracking today, Central Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan apologized to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) because some CIA officers improperly accessed computers used by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
A declassified CIA inspector general’s report released to the Senators on Thursday revealed that agency officers...
Shocking new emails released today by U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee shows Ms. Lerner’s mistreatment of conservative groups was driven by her ‘personal hostility toward conservatives.’
The November 9, 2012 email exchange with an unnamed colleague – the person’s name was redacted in the...
In another of his frequent ‘announcement drops’ before entering Marine One, President Obama yesterday declared that the United States and the European Union had agreed to a new round of sanctions against Russia. These new sanctions come within two weeks of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 being shot from the sky...
