The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service is proposing to loosen regulations prohibiting the killing of bald eagles for the benefit of renewable energy companies. The Heritage Foundation’s blog “The Foundry” reports on the latest instance of the Obama administration’s war on wildlife: A draft regulation first filed in April would allow businesses to apply for…
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DHS IG: “Gaping Hole” In Airport Security
In the latest scandal to rock the agency charged with securing aviation from another terrorist attack, high-ranking officials at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are concealing nearly half of the breaches at major airports across the United States. It’s simply one of many shameful lapses for the monstrous federal agency created after 9/11 to protect…
Iran’s Strategic Gamble in Latin America
It is amazing how things don’t seem to change, no matter how we are alerted to the dangers that continue to grow around us. The following article, written in 2008, warned us about the threat to America from Iranian-sponsored jihadists in South and Central America. Alongside the article above, written this week, it makes us…
Jihad on Our Doorstep: Threat from Mexico
As the United States considers the Islamic jihadi threats confronting it from all sides, it would do well to focus on its southern neighbor, Mexico, which has been targeted by Islamists and jihadists, who, through a number of tactics—from engaging in da’wa, converting Mexicans to Islam, to smuggling and the drug cartel, simple extortion, kidnappings…
Afghanistan: Trading Terrorists for Information
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported on a covert diplomatic program through which the U.S. releases high-level insurgents at an Afghanistan military prison in exchange for information, influence, and promises of peace. “We look at detainees who have influence over other insurgents — individuals whose release could have a calming effect in an entire area,”…
Wrong Turn Gets Texas Trucker in Mexican Jail
A Dallas-based truck driver is in prison in Mexico and facing a possible 35-year sentence because he missed his exit and had no way of turning around without crossing the border. Jabin Bogan was making deliveries in El Paso before heading on to Arizona when he missed his exit and found himself stuck on the…
GPS surveillance threatens privacy
“If you win this case,” Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told the Obama administration’s lawyer during oral argument in U.S. v. Jones last fall, “there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States.” That prospect, Breyer said, “sounds…
Obama Defies Congress, Gives $192m to Terrorists
The Obama Administration has defied Congress on Friday and released more than $192 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Appropriated funds for the PA were impounded by Congress following PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ grandstand play for a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian State at the UN General Assembly, last fall, and the UNESCO seating of…
Issa, Boehner: No Contempt Charges for Holder – Yet
Congressman Darrel Issa and House Speaker John Boehner claim reports they are moving to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress soon — and reports claiming they are working together to do so — are inaccurate. CBS News and the Los Angeles Times reported Friday morning that Boehner had green-lighted Issa’s plans to…
Frank Gaffney: Muslim Brotherhood in America
Frank Gaffney, president of The Center for Security Policy, has announced the release of a ten part course called “The Muslim Brotherhood in America“. According to its website: The Center for Security Policy is making available via the Internet a new, free ten-part video course called “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within.” This…
