From ABC: Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to “light his shoes on fire” on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News. Authorities say an explosive team is on the way to the airport, and that while the presence of explosives […]
This could prove interesting for the U.S.: Large-scale protests appear to have overthrown the government of Kyrgyzstan, an important American ally in Central Asia, after violence between riot police officers and opposition demonstrators on Thursday killed at least 17 people. The country’s president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, fled the capital, Bishkek, on his plane, and the opposition […]
Nothing gets to me more than hearing Republicans talk about Obama and how he is anti-Israel. Of course these Republicans aren’t Jewish, but if you don’t listen to them then you don’t know what you are talking about. Well it seems like Israel is speaking out and showing that the Republicans are just flat out […]
Yesterday was a bad day for companies that like to capture and display ocean life. First there was the horrific death of a Sea World trainer in Orlando: A veteran animal trainer whose dream was to work at SeaWorld‘s Shamu Stadium was killed Wednesday when one of the show’s killer whales dragged her underwater and […]
Yesterday Scott Brown tried to justify Joseph Stack flying an airplane into the federal building in Austin by saying “no one likes paying taxes”. This all seems to play nicely with FOX declaring that this isn’t domestic terrorism. Yeah – who is weak on terrorism? Cue Dick Cheney in 3…2…..
When you ignore Afghanistan for 7 years then you never get stories like this: The Taliban’s top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials. The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American […]
Wow South Carolina is really ahead of the curve on fighting terrorism. I expect Osama is already packing up shop: Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. […]
Rob Diamond, a Navy veteran and Fellow with the Truman National Security Project, noticed something interesting with the Republican response to the State of the Union address: Notice who is sitting directly behind McDonnell on his right side? You have an Army Staff Sergeant in full dress uniform. As Rob points out: Slight problem, you […]
Citing the continued blocking of his nomination by Jim DeMint, the man nominated to head the TSA has now withdrawn his name from the nomination. What a wonderful thing in a post-9/11 world. Way to go Republicans!
This has got me absolutely speechless: Mr. 9/11 himself, the man who was the mayor of the town that took the biggest hit on 9/11, is now denying it ever happened? “What [Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a […]