August 15, 2013 – 8:33 am
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin are super upset that the Gitmo detention facility is still open in the era of HopeNchange (LA Times) The detention facility on our military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is holding 166 individuals. Most of them have been there a decade or more. Operating Guantanamo costs about $450 million […]
June 20, 2013 – 3:55 pm
Put this one down to a case of “just wondering”, but, hey, it’s not like The Government would ever lie about something, right? (Wired) Â Did the government really disrupt a bomb plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange? The FBI deputy director said that today in a Spygate hearing where the government for the first […]
June 19, 2013 – 8:15 am
This is the same Taliban that the Obama administration has wanted to have peace talks with for most of his presidency (Yahoo News) President Barack Obama warmly welcomed the announcement on Tuesday of fresh reconciliation talks between Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban, as well as plans to launch a new round of direct negotiations between […]
June 13, 2013 – 9:05 am
So says the head of the NSA (NY Times) The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens†of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the […]
June 8, 2013 – 7:07 am
The question is, will Mr. Obama and his team go along with any plans to stop the over-broad fishnet surveillance of the US citizenry? Here’s the Times’ editorial board Over the last three years, several measures were introduced in Congress that would have helped reduce or eliminate the abuses of communications surveillance revealed this week. […]
June 6, 2013 – 8:42 pm
I was flabbergasted when I heard this the first time Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Boiling it down: “I try to ask in matters like this a simple question: if we are hit, and it comes out that the president had the ability and authority to take action […]
May 25, 2013 – 9:07 am
Warmists really can’t help themselves, blaming everything for “climate change” (and everything that happens on climate change). Here’s another wacko (via Climate Depot) (Pakistan Today…or, is that, as (NMP) Obama says “Pock-eeeeeee-stan”?) Former Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) director general (DG) Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry on Thursday said climate change was on the rise due to war […]
May 24, 2013 – 6:41 am
Not that he really it calls it that. If you remember, his administration changed it to “overseas contingency” early on. And while the NY Times says that this “was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America”, there are two issues, the first being that […]
May 10, 2013 – 2:44 pm
Well, you’ve already been treated to the E-trade baby and his shocked face, so I’ll spare you (MRC) Wednesday’s congressional hearings on the September 11 terrorists attacks in Benghazi provided a stark contrast between Fox News Channel and MSNBC. From the time the whistleblower testimony began at 11:36am through their conclusion after 5pm, FNC devoted […]
May 1, 2013 – 9:15 am
As Obama is defending those responsible for keeping the US as safe as they can from terrorists, his pleas seem rather weak in the face of more information, in the form of an exclusive from the UK Daily Mail…..isn’t it funny that we have to get so much of our information on these types of […]
