Gee, we Hollywood conservatives can’t get a break. Over at IFC’s The Independent Eye, in a short piece titled “The disingenuousness of Jafar Panahi’s right-wing advocates,” contributing writer Vadim Rizov takes Big Hollywood to task for our support of courageous
At a press conference last Wednesday with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Barack Obama said his administration was taking a “very close look” at Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law, “for any implications, especially for civil rights.” So while the Obama
Fox News: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted Monday that she has not read the controversial Arizona immigration law even though she’s gone on television to criticize it, and continued to assert that it was “bad law enforcement law.”
Under a bombardment of condemnation, Arizona has taken action to address illegal immigration and is fighting back by telling Washington to “do your job.” Meanwhile, on Sunday President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Justice Department was “considering”
More hope and change… Faisal Shahzad was removed from the national terrorist surveillance list before the Times Square attack. (CBS News) Confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad was removed from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama
Vicki: Mom, I just did a Tea Party speech in Washington, D.C. I sang my song, “There’s a Communist Living in the White House!” Mom: Oh No! I don’t want you to get shot! Vicki: You see what you just
Many a partisan and pundit-provocateur has spent the last year trying to convince us that the tea parties consist of violent extremists. The multi-front attack has come from the media, Hollywood, and the current White House. At the genesis of
Nobody really considers Rod Serling a prophet, but I’ll tell you, this guy saw our day and even did an episode of The Twilight Zone on it. Serling was a typical Hollywood leftist, so were he alive, he would not
We should all know by now that the Obama administration’s plan to spend up to $200 million on civilian trials for terrorists is dangerous. It’s also wasteful. Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is a site perfectly suited to such trials–and detentions. If
Imagine tons of explosives being stolen in Mexico and then transported by truck across the border into the United States. Could it happen? Over the weekend, it did. Almost. On Friday, according to an article in the Latin American Herald
KPRC-TV: Reports say terrorists could begin hiding explosives in breast implants. British spy satellites have apparently intercepted terrorist communications from Pakistan and Yemen, talking about women suicide bombers getting explosives put inside breast implants. Former Houston FBI Director Don Clark
It has been reported, a company by the name of PharmAthene, which is closely tied to the late Congressman John Murtha and Tara O’Toole, an Under Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has received preferential treatment by our
Ever wanted to be one of those highly paid caption writers on a large metropolitan daily or a major news magazine? Well, here’s your chance. Even though the House chamber was chilly enough for an overcoat, a few folks got
Fox News: Dennis Blair, in a tense hearing about the incident before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, also expressed disappointment that so many leaks about who knew what when have emerged in the course of the internal review. “I wish
AP: White House gate crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday, refusing to answer a House committee’s questions about their uninvited appearance at a state dinner. The jet-setting Virginia couple repeatedly said they were
My Dear Readers, Happy New Year, and I hope you all have a blessed 2010. I wrote the following article and it deals with one of the most crucial issues of our day. I may have been excessive in supplying
On conservative talk shows, defenders of President Obama have frequently asserted that it is too soon into the term of the new administration to fairly judge the policies and performance of our President. Well, nearly a full year has elapsed
By Barack Obama It certainly was a holiday to remember. Since I’m President of the United States, I was able to choose anywhere in the world to spend a long, lazy couple of weeks. So, we got the 747 gassed
So as the underpants bomber is about to get arraigned, a new Rasmussen Poll reveals that nearly 60 percent favor ethnic profiling for airline security. This, on the heels of President Obama finally accepting responsibility for the major F-up on
AP: Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) says the Senate Homeland Security Committee will hold hearings on the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. bound jetliner Christmas day and the state of homeland defense in the U.S.
On Christmas Day, what was intended to be a far worse terrorist attack was narrowly thwarted, thanks to the prudence and bravery of a handful of airline passengers and flight crew. No one knows yet how Nigerian terror suspect Umar
I first met up with Tom Tresser when I went to my first Olympics townhall event in the summer. Tresser lead the citizen activist group, No Games Chicago. They opposed the bid, as most have probably figured out. Tresser represented
In April 2009, the Department of Homeland Security published an “Assessment” of the threat of Right-Wing extremism. One section identified returning military veterans as a particular danger: DHS/I and A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize
President Bill Clinton should be cut a lot of slack when it comes to 9/11. Sure the attack was planned under his watch, and sure President Clinton cowardly avoided taking custody of Osama bin Laden when Sudan offered him on
Lawmakers in New York and Illinois were quick to recognize that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial offered a new opportunity to secure billions of additional taxpayer funds. Both states are reeling from the combined effect of economic slowdown and years of
