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While countries around the world, in virtual lockstep, refuse to accept the relocation of their own citizens– suspected terrorists–from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a House-Senate panel of the Illinois legislature will consider Governor Quinn’s (and the Obama Administration’s) plan to sell

The Land of Lincoln may still be licking its wounds–and certain real estate transactions–over Chicago’s losing the Olympics to Rio, but the Obama Administration has delivered up a small consolation prize: the state’s very own federal prison for terrorists. Big

Earlier this month President Obama fired Greg Craig, his main counsel on matters concerning the Guantanamo Bay Facility. And this week Obama sheds another one of his GITMO team with the resignation of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense for Detainee

[Editor’s Note: This is a small portion of a comprehensive interview that originally appeared in the Irish Examiner on Monday, November 24th. You can read the full piece here.] Recently I was sent an email complaining about the season premier

CBS News: The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer

Illinois can be extra proud of its Democratic elected officials these days as they have joined to create a perfect storm of stupidity resulting in the possibility that terrorist detainees may be transferred to an unopened new prison in the

Fox News: The maximum-security Thomson Correctional Facility, about 150 miles west of Chicago, is one of several evaluated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and emerged as a leading option to house the detainees.

Fox News: Republicans stepped up attacks on President Obama’s attempt to close the Guantanamo Bay prison without a detailed plan after House Democrats on Thursday repelled a GOP effort to block transfer of any of the detainees to the U.S.

Quietly, with dignity and without fanfare, The Mighty Gene Hackman retired from acting in 2004 to live with his wife in New Mexico and tap out the occasional novel, his latest being “Escape From Andersonville,” a piece of historical fiction

The White House is acknowledging for the first time that it might not be able to meet President Barack Obama’s January deadline for closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

If I had to explain Americans to a Martian, I would be hard-pressed. It would be especially difficult when it came to liberals. But, there are even conservatives who confound me. For instance, why would any Republican belong to AARP?

Daily Mail: Embracing the delights of their new island home, the Uighurs have already taken a sunset swim and caught a fish at their first attempt at fishing. They have also reverted to their real names after using pseudonyms since

Weekly Standard: The Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. But, in March

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Free Health Care, Universal Health Care, Gitmo Prison, Democrats, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, Las Vegas, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, San Francisco, and Paris Hilton. [youtube p995AxC0OYo]

Last week, Congress soundly rejected (at least for now) President Obama’s ill-conceived idea to precipitously close the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Although there is not a shred of real evidence to indicate that the facility at Gitmo

There have to be millions of American liberals, gays and left wingers totally disappointed with President Barack Obama today. It would seem that he, like they, were the idealists running headlong into the brick wall of harsh realities, and will

Hot Air: How can you not love an ad that preempts lefty cries of “fearmongering†with footage from the most ludicrously fearmongering political ad the Democrats ever ran?

Fox News: House Democratic leaders weighed in Wednesday with a plan that would block any release of Guantanamo detainees within the United States but that would allow them to be shipped to the U.S. to stand trial or to serve

I’m your guy. You will want to pay me a visit. You’ll be wanting to sit me down in your offices and have a little chat with me. And if worse comes to worst, I won’t even cost you much

“If then the president of the United States says, ‘I’m going to close down Guantanamo, but I need my allies to take [some of the captives] into our prisons,’ †if we are consistent, then we say yes. Otherwise we

The Prez has flown to England and there’s only one thing to do while he’s gone: Let’s get our country back. Okay, it’s not going to be easy, there are a lot of hurdles. I’m pretty sure I can take

I agree with Crowder: When the headlines are more over-the-top than any joke one can form from them, it certainly makes comedy challenging. “Try making the idea of released detainees going back to terrorism funny”? Hey, according to the Pentagon,

I hate to say it, but we’re officially becoming a nation of sissies with radical leftists leading the cause. Tipping our hand to the enemy and openly “banning torture” defies all logic and denies the history of war. Now, before

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the prison at Guantanamo Bay is a well-run facility, that will be a challenge to close. Holder recently visited Gitmo, where he said he did not witness any mistreatment of prisoners.

There is little justice in this world. Probably because the bad guys have so many apologists. Taken, on the other hand, is an all-out revenge fantasy in which — finally — the Go-Slow Gang and their Root Causes Orchestra are

Richard Dreyfuss and Elizabeth McGovern have travelled across the pond to star in a play about America’s torture of terrorist suspects. That’s right, not “alleged” torture. It’s a fact as far as this play is concerned. And, the funny thing

So I’m having lunch with my buddy Sandy Frank, and we’re laughing about his idea to update ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ but have the series set in Guantanamo Bay Prison. You know, a guy pulls back his prayer rug, revealing a tunnel

With a few strokes of the (real-life) president’s pen, Guantanamo Bay was ordered shut within a year, enhanced interrogation tactics were banished as relics of a dark past, and secret CIA prisons began dropping off the map in Eastern Europe.

THIS JUST IN: In a surprise move today, the outspoken and controversial Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, stated that he’d be happy to take the inmates of Gitmo and provide for them “appropriate and hospitable accommodations.” When questioned in a

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AFP: President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order mandating the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison camp within a year, in a sharp reversal of Bush administration anti-terror policy.

Senate Select Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said she wants to work “in concert” with the new administration on detainee policy. Feinstein has already introduced a bill (S 147) that would require closure of the Guant?!namo Bay prison within a

The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge Monday they want to immediately confess at their war-crimes tribunal, setting up likely guilty pleas and their possible executions.

KCNC-TV: If mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of Denver.

A videotaped interrogation by Canadian officials of a weeping teenage Guantanamo Bay prisoner was released over the Internet Tuesday, in what is believed to be the first such video from the U.S. facility seen by the public. In the video,

AFP: “The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times,” the court said in its historic ruling, for the third time in four years striking down the government’s case for trying “war on terror”