Three Defendants Plead Guilty to Participating in Ambush Murder and Attempted Murder of ICE Agents in Mexico
By Sylvia Longmire.
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Here’s an excerpt from the Department of Justice press release:
“Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as “Piolin,” 32, pleaded guilty today to the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs [...]
Shyam Saran on India’s Nuclear Deterrent
By Michael Krepon.
On April 24th, the Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board, Shyam Saran, delivered an important address in New Delhi affirming the credibility of India’s nuclear deterrent. Mr. Saran has over [...]
Gun Death Statistics, Suicide Rates, and Gun Ownership
By Dru Stevenson.
Detroit Free Press has a new op-ed piece: More people die from guns than car accidents in Michigan. Excerpt:
“The idea that gun deaths exceed motor vehicle deaths in 10 states is stunning when one considers that [...]
The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache
By Glen Ford.
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
Who will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the [...]
The Real Flight Plan
By George Bailey.
“The effect this matter has had on my life has been astounding and due to this case, I will never trust the government in any matter, ever,” Kurt Haskell.
I was watching the Jodi Foster movie, [...]
The Green Enemies of Humanity, Science, and the Truth
By Alan Caruba.
Among the greatest liars on Earth today is the international organization called Friends of the Earth (FOE). It has engaged in the most scurrilous fear-mongering for decades, along with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the World [...]
Nothing New — Cleveland Kidnapping Of 3 Women
by Marilyn Z. Tomlins.
Josef Fritzl – I called him the Austrian Ogre
In 2008 the world learned with shock of an Austrian father, Josef Fritzl, who had held his own daughter Elisabeth captive as his sex slave for all of 24 years. [...]
The President as Sergeant Schultz
By Alan Caruba.
How is it that, time and again, the most powerful man on the planet doesn’t seem to have a clue what is happening in his own government? Famed for never accepting blame for anything, the more I see President Obama these days, [...]
We’ve Crossed The Rubicon
After seeing the horrific news that the Boston Marathon had been bombed I started dwelling on what new draconian laws were going to be created as a result of this attack. I was soon to see that the no new laws were needed. The State [...]
How the Greens Pick Your Pocket
By Alan Caruba.
The famed Boston Tea Party was a protest against “taxation without representation”, but our pockets are picked every day by a plethora of taxes of which most Americans are not even aware.
We get robbed when the federal government [...]
Obama Breeds Rebellion Among the States
By Alan Caruba.
The resistance to Obamacare is writing a new chapter in U.S. history. It may well become the most unpopular law since Prohibition became an Amendment to the Constitution in 1919. By 1933, another Amendment repealed it.
Obamacare [...]
Crime and Human Rights: Why Do We Impose Criminal Punishment?
By Filip Spagnoli.
ca. 1913 — The information card on Joseph Stalin, from the files of the Tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
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It seems so obvious that we must punish criminals [...]
Immigration reform’s hidden border-crossing charge
By Sylvia Longmire.
Here is an excerpt from Mark Johanson’s article in the International Business Times:
“If the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has its way, Congress may soon authorize the study of a fee to be collected [...]
China’s Leadership Opportunity in Afghanistan
By Raffaello Pantucci.
First published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and The Diplomat on April 2, 2013
The 2014 deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is fast approaching. China has just over [...]
It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-Up
By Alan Caruba.
I still recall the long months of the Watergate scandal that began with a botched break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972. It was directed by a group of presidential operatives dubbed [...]
Amnesty Bill is a Massive Multi-Million Dollar Fraud
By Alan Caruba.
Native-born and naturalized Americans who are currently seeking work are already competing with illegal immigrants—a term that the Associated Press says it will no longer use—or standing in line behind them as they sign up [...]
How Much Due Diligence is Enough?
By Thomas J. Fox.
Do you really know who you are doing business with in your supply chain? How much due diligence is enough? Should you update your due diligence on a regular basis? How about on a continuous basis? What ethical considerations [...]
U.S. Legislators: Voting Against Commonsense Gun Regulation Will Get You Unelected
by Baldr Odinson.
Despite 90% of Americans supporting universal background checks, including 91% of gun-owning households, and even 74% of NRA members (see the data here), the U.S. Senate voted down a watered-down background check bill [...]
Pultizer Prize-Winning Bigot?
By Alan Caruba,
What kind of idiot would write, “Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need [...]
Only Fools and Horses – Protest parties in Germany
Oliver Krumme.
Two weeks ago, the political party landscape in Germany has been enlarged by the creation of a new party – but without making things any easier.
The new “AfD” (“Alternative für Deutschland“ = Alternative for Germany) [...]