From the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: ATF_10-04-11_Holder_memo_docs Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa today said that Attorney General Eric Holder received at least five weekly memos beginning in July 2010, including four weeks in a row,
From FoxNews: House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar
From CBSNews: Late Friday, the White House turned over new documents in the Congressional investigation into the ATF “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal. The documents show extensive communications between then-ATF Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix office Bill Newell
While the mainstream media continues to cover important stories about the “racist” Tea Party, the need to tax the ultra-rich, or Michelle Obama’s recent shopping spree at Target, details of Fast and Furious continue to effervesce below the surface. And
– Mexican drug cartels murder Maria Elizabeth Macias-Castro, editor of the Primera Hora newspaper, for using social media to report on the cartels’ violence. – Interesting: Greta Van Susteren defends CNN from progressive rage over the CNN/tea party debate. My
From The Los Angeles Times: In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell
When I first saw Brian De Palma’s Scarface, a decidedly eighties remake of the classic Howard Hawks gangster movie, I loved it. I was a teenager, the perfect age to see Tony Montana’s dizzying rise in the Miami underworld, followed
Say ‘ello to my leetle fren’: axe confiscated in border rawk-out WASHINGTON – Today’s uncovering of secret multi-agency program for shipping illegal Gibson guitars to Mexican drug cartels left red-faced officials of the U.S. Department of Justice scrambling for an
From the Associated Press: MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) – The death toll climbed as workers continued to pull bodies out of a burned casino in northern Mexico, where gunmen spread gasoline and ignited a fire that trapped and killed at least
Are we ever going to see drug cartels operating in this country the way they do in Mexico? Insight Crime analyzes organized crime in Latin America and offers this interesting analysis of what lies ahead. (Note: Insight Crime is based
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian discusses the latest activities along our Southern border. Unlike the metaphorical U.S. “War on Drugs,” Mexico is literally engaged in a military struggle
It was just over two and half years ago that the Obama administration entered the White House under promises of transparency and restoring America’s image abroad. Yet now we know that at the same time they were promising these things,
From the Washington Times: The Obama administration sought to intimidate witnesses into not testifying to Congress on Tuesday about whether ATF knowingly allowed weapons, including assault rifles, to be “walked” into Mexico, the chairman of a House committee investigating the
In a Dec. 3, 2009, article about the announced resignation of Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez wrote that Ogden hasn’t been identified with any major Justice Department policy initiatives. Now that this C-SPAN video
By way of law and order and in an effort to protect its citizenry, the state of Georgia has enacted an anti-illegal immigration law similar to SB 1070 proposed by the state of Arizona. Georgia’s measure seeks to “empower police
To Err is Human..to really screw thing up you need government to take it over -Unknown Conservative Philosopher One of the arguments against government intrusion into every aspect of our lives is that a government can never run a business
The body count in Mexico’s drug wars keeps rising, now approaching 40,000 since President Felipe Calderón took office in late 2006. Growing public anger about that horrific situation leads Mexican officials to look for scapegoats, and a favorite candidate has
Imagine a scenario in which the media outlet most afflicted with Barack Obama Sycophancy Syndrome (BOSS) – the place Chris ‘thrill up my leg’ Matthews calls home – presented a ‘smoking gun’ that could implicate the Obama White House in
Congressman Michael T. McCaul of Texas There is growing concern regarding the security of our US-Mexican border. In 2006 our Homeland Security Committee did a report on the issue. It is available on the web site of Congressman Michael T.
To the casual observer it would seem that Obama administration is at best inept and at worst apathetic when it comes to securing the border, prosecuting the drug cartels, and stemming the flow of illegal immigration. Recently, I reported on
“I don’t think he has arrested the C.I.A.’s slide into becoming an ossified politically correct welfare bureaucracy resembling the Bureau of Labor Statistics. .. It is not the agile outfit that it was at the beginning of the Cold War
One of the pitfalls of conservative media is “me too!”-ism, the idea that taking a successful mainstream concept and blatantly injecting conservative proselytizing into it is a winning strategy. Thankfully, the new cable channel RightNetwork strives to create original content
Now this sounds like an excellent idea. “Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) has introduced legislation seeking to place six Mexican drug cartels – the Arellano Feliz Organization, Los Zetas, the Beltran Leyva Organization, La Familia Michoacana, the Sinaloa Cartel and the
When you think about a highly aggressive cartel teaming up with politicians to pass protectionist laws that kick entrepreneurs out of work, you probably don’t think about interior designers. But you should. [youtube C_4U3VehaW4&] The American Society of Interior Designers
When you think about a highly aggressive cartel teaming up with politicians to pass protectionist laws that kick entrepreneurs out of work, you probably don’t think about interior designers. But you should. [youtube C_4U3VehaW4&] The American Society of Interior Designers
