The Hasan Case: Overt Clues and Tactical Challenges

Nov 11, 2009 - The Hasan Case: Overt Clues and Tactical Challenges By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton In last week’s global security and intelligence report, we discussed the recent call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wahayshi, for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets in the Muslim world and the West. We also noted how it is relatively simple to conduct such attacks against soft targets using improvised explosive devices, guns or even knives and clubs. The next day, a lone gunman, U.S. - 2 Comments

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah

Nov 09, 2009 - WEST ALLIS, Wis. – Sarah Palin rallied thousands of abortion opponents Friday night with a a stark warning that the same philosophy that allows abortion rights could soon be invoked to allow the government to cut off health care for the elderly or children with special needs. Speaking to a fund-raising banquet of Wisconsin Right to Life, the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee asserted that if policy-makers don’t believe a child in the womb is valuable, then “perhaps the same mind-set applies to other persons.” “What may they feel about an elderly person who doesn’t have a whole lot of productive years left,” Palin asked an audience of about 5,000 who paid $30 each to hear her speak in an airplane hangar-like exhibition hall at the Wisconsin state fairgrounds just outside of Milwaukee. - 9 Comments

Fan denies sex-for-tickets gambit

Oct 29, 2009 - A US woman charged with offering sex for baseball World Series tickets has denied she did anything wrong. "I'm not embarrassed about my actions. I'm embarrassed about how I was arrested," Susan Finkelstein, from Philadelphia, told AP news agency. - 38 Comments

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization

Oct 24, 2009 - Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp. Since Obama's election, the cable channel's hosts and paid analysts have launched a full frontal assault on the president, smearing his nominees, calling him a racist and suggesting that his administration was trying to persuade disabled veterans to off themselves. Now the fearmongers at Fox are crying foul since the president and his aides declared Fox not to be a news organization. - 5 Comments

Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax

Oct 23, 2009 - Affidavit: Mom told deputies balloon saga was hoax   Police Accuse Parents Of "Balloon Boy" Of Perpetrating Hoax   By DAN ELLIOTT DENVER – The mother of the 6-year-old boy once feared missing inside a runaway helium balloon admitted the whole saga was a hoax, according to court documents released Friday. Mayumi Heene told sheriff's deputies that she and her husband Richard "knew all along that Falcon was hiding in the residence" in Fort Collins, according to an affidavit used to get a search warrant for the home. She allegedly told investigators the incident was a hoax meant to make them more marketable to the media. - 16 Comments

Once in a Black & Blue Moon

Oct 12, 2009 - Really True, the title explains more than you think... BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks. The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for traveling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said. - 8 Comments

Democrats, sex crimes and hypocracy

Oct 09, 2009 - Democrats Called Foley Guilty of Sex Crimes By Jeffrey Lord The magic number is 16. Just last night, on Sean Hannity's Fox Show, ABC's George Stephanopoulos said in defense of the liberal media's non-coverage of Kevin Jennings, that a person's entire career should be taken into consideration before they are sent packing from public service. Fair enough. - 3 Comments

Harry Connick, Jr. speaks about blackface

Oct 08, 2009 - A CONTROVERSIAL Hey Hey It's Saturday Reunion segment has sparked international debate and left the singer - Harry Connick Jr - red faced. In its Red Faces segment on Wednesday night, the Channel 9 program aired a singing group called the Jackson Jive, featuring Sydney doctors with blackened faces and an Indian lead singer whose face was whitened – in an ode to the Jackson Five. New Orleans-born Connick Jr, a judge in the segment, expressed his disgust. - 21 Comments

GOP Rep. Trent Franks Calls Obama "An Enemy Of Humanity"

Sep 29, 2009 - I tried to imbed the video, but it probably isn't going to work since I really don't know how to do it. Anyhoo, there is video of his crazy speech if you follow the link if anyone is interested A Republican member of the House of Representatives accused President Barack Obama of being "an enemy of humanity" during a conservative values forum this past weekend. In a speech Saturday before the How to Take Back America conference that received scant notice, Rep. - 13 Comments