If a person went on a safari in Africa and the tour guide stated, “when the jackal tries to take the lion’s babies, the lion will kill the jackal” what would most people say? “Duh, really, what else is new?”
South of the Border Jalisco Govenror Emilio Gonzalez is accusing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of collaborating with the drug cartels because they refuse to support a security-bill. He asked members of the State Congress: “What did you receive? Did
For a superb look at what is going on in Mexico, read this article (PDF) in the current issue of Orbis published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Written by David Danelo, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who served for
From the New York Times: Like many of the cables made public in recent weeks, those describing the drug war do not offer large disclosures. Rather, it is the details that add up to a clearer picture of the corrupting
While the Obama administration worries about security issues half way around the world in such places as Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea, a serious problem is brewing right on our southern border. Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed some 29,000
We’ve all heard the old proverb, “nature abhors a vacuum,” or its variation “power, like nature abhors a vacuum.” With the ascendancy of “conservative media” — i.e. Fox News, Drudge Report and the Big sites — to name just a
In what can be viewed as an alarming and further blurring of the lines between the Mexican government and Mexico’s highly violent drug cartels, Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano, who had been actively (exactly how “actively” is debatable) sought on drug
View of spot, halfway up hill, where we interviewed American Rancher X Previously: American Rancher X, Part 1 “I don’t need you here, stirring up trouble, especially by shooting. The cartels shot at two people on my land last year.
In a stunning front-page editorial the principal Juarez, Mexico newspaper El Diario has called for a truce with the ultra violent Juarez and Sinaloa Mexican drug cartels in wake of the murder of an El Diario photographer and severe wounding
Five years ago when Congress was considering a requirement that nasal decongestants be placed behind the counter to combat their use in methamphetamine production, I was one of many policy analysts who argued against this restriction. I believed it would
Read Part One here. Another reason for the spotty media coverage of the war along our southern border is manpower. Local media simply doesn’t have the resources to investigate and cover all of the stories in their area — even
Has the fog of war descended on the U.S. southern border, obscuring the reporting of news and concealing the truth about what is going on along the Rio Grande and in Arizona and California? Many violent incidents are not widely
Abbot Justin Brown and his fellow monks are being threatened with crippling fines and even jail time. Their crime? Selling caskets. Today, they are fighting back in a big way. [youtube 7NxtGzsGtJc] In 1889, a group of monks from Indiana
On Tuesday, seven bullets believed to have been fired from one or more AK-47s from across the border hit the El Paso City Hall. It was big news in the Texas border town right across the river from Juarez, Mexico,
The apparent absence of grownups in the Administration and in Congress (not just this Administration and not just this Congress) has produced a truly sad, and indeed, scandalous spectacle. History will not treat our current ruling class kindly with respect
Price fixing is illegal in the private sector, but unfortunately there are no rules against schemes by politicians to create oligopolies in order to prop up bad government policy. The latest example comes from the bureaucrats at the International Monetary
I first met David Saucedo last October in Waco, Texas. I was impressed. He was a young Christian construction worker who spent his free time counseling inner city youth. After tough days of framing and pouring concrete, he went door
NBC’s “Law and Order” is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, “Doped” was a farcical equivalent of “Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood.” Pharmaceutical
Before Big X achieved fame, glory and untold wealth as a writer-producer, he spent a decade or so as an executive in the financial industry. So when I read Mr. Weinstein’s comment that “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York, meeting with network television producers about a series they wanted to run about a story my production team and I have been reporting for more than five years: the narco-insurgency
It was a little after midnight when I crossed over the bridge from Laredo, Texas into the sister city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. After having my car searched I was cleared through the Mexican Customs’ check point where the military
On a hot summer evening, in a bar in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico just across the bridge from Laredo, Texas; a thirty year-old man, on his knees, surrounded by a dozen armed guards, can be heard begging for his life, he
The year 2009 has been hyped by the media and political elites as the year of “change” in America. I’ve been filming and reporting on the drug war being waged in Mexico and along our southwest border for over four
On June 3rd Sara Carter and the Washington Times reported, “Al-Qaeda Eyes Anthrax Attack On U.S from Mexico.” The story is based on an Al-Qaeda recruitment video first broadcast back in February on Al Jazeera. In it, Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah
The first time you face armed, foreign troops on American soil, something inside you changes. You experience a cold, hard sensation deep in your core. There is an internal shift as the reality sinks in that despite having the strongest
