CIA chief Leon Panetta, a former senior Democratic congressman and White House chief of staff for Bill Clinton, admitted of the sanctions passed earlier in the month by Congress: “Will it deter them from their ambitions with regards to nuclear capability? Probably not.” So the sanctions are just a charade. We’re “doing something” that doesn’t really do anything.
Archive for June, 2010
Time for Arizona to file a lawsuit of its own
This week, it’s widely expected that the United States of America is going to sue the state of Arizona. It seems we rank right up there with Osama bin Laden and British Petroleum as enemies of the state. So I’m thinking we ought to return the favor.
Court rejects MN activist group’s attempt to ban free speech at public park
Minneapolis police arrested Brian Johnson last year for distributing religious literature at the ‘Pride’ festival.
Obama’s Wonderland Is No Fairy Tale
As we continue to tumble down the road to economic ruin, security vulnerability, and reduced health care benefits, things become “curiouser and curiouser.”
Opening Cuba to travel a bailout for Castro
Solzhenitsyn noted, “We are slaves there from birth, but we are striving for freedom. You, however, were born free. If so, then why do you help our slave owners?”
Banks Financing Mexico Drug Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
Twenty million people in the U.S. regularly use illegal drugs, spurring street crime and wrecking families. Narcotics cost the U.S. economy $215 billion a year — enough to cover health care for 30.9 million Americans — in overburdened courts, prisons and hospitals and lost productivity, the department says.
“It’s the banks laundering money for the cartels that finances the tragedy,” says Martin Woods, director of Wachovia’s anti-money-laundering unit in London from 2006 to 2009. “If you don’t see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 22,000 people killed in Mexico, you’re missing the point,” Woods says.
U.S., Afghan Forces Launch Major Offensive
As many as 150 insurgent fighters have been killed since Sunday in a major offensive involving about 700 U.S. and Afghan troops along eastern Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, a senior military official confirmed to Fox News early Tuesday.
Killing the job machine
Everything the Obama administration and the Democrats are pushing seems to be crippling the the largest job generator in the world, small business.
Will Congress Kill Volunteer Fire Departments?
In North Carolina and Virginia, for example, collective bargaining is currently prohibited. Eighteen other states have limitations on bargaining. The legislation would likely force those governments to abandon merit-based promotions for public safety workers and shift instead to a collectively bargained seniority schedule, which unions prefer.
Thomas Sowell on Gun Control Laws
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means that individual Americans have a right to bear arms, what can we expect?