Just saw this tweet from Chuck Todd: Goss: “What we’re now seeing is that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has not made one iota of improvement.” So Goss is saying that his successors haven’t fixed the mess he left behind. That also goes along with what I have been saying – the […]
Can we have more of this please? There are numerous other such public statements that explicitly state we are at war. The difference is this: President Obama doesn’t need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last Administration – we are not at war with a tactic (“terrorism”), we at war […]
Here is an interesting fact the internet has pulled up. On December 28, 2009, President Obama made his first public comments about the attempted bombing on Christmas day – 3 days after the incident. On December 28, 2001, President Bush made his first public comments about Richard Reid’s failed bombing attempt. That was 7 days […]
Erroll Southers, the nominee to head the TSA, has been in the news a lot lately because of the attempted airline bombing on Christmas Day. As I pointed out yesterday, Southers nomination has been held up in the Senate because of Jim DeMint. But DeMint isn’t the only one to blame here. We also must […]
I am really curious to hear how the wingnuts spin this one: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al […]
Still catching up on the news of the attempted airline terrorist attack from Christmas and this story really caught my eye: Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on […]
It always amazes me when the right goes on about how charities should take care of social needs. The problem is when people start losing money the first thing that gets cut is their charitable donations, which then results in things like this: The holiday project is a group of nine nonprofit agencies that rely […]