Two decades ago, dusty little McAllen started to morph into a palm-fringed boomtown. Now, drug-gang violence, until recently confined to Ciudad Juarez and other cities far to the west, has spread startlingly close.
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Jed Babbin: Obama’s politically correct ‘leadership’ invites military disasters
Obama’s leadership failed. Russia, China and Iran aren’t willing to compromise to support Obama’s agenda. Unfortunately, some of our military leaders are. He is leading them in transforming our military into a politically correct force.
Venezuelan civilians train to fight for Chavez
Chavez shows all the sign of a dictator looking for a war to fight. He has been buying Russian arms, has Iranian shock troops in country, and is now training up civilians just as Hitler did.
Times Square bomb suspect arrested in New York
A US citizen of Pakistani origin is arrested in New York over the attempt to detonate a car bomb in Times Square.
Mexico drug wars: 24 dead in 24 hours over the weekend (Slideshow: Warning, graphic)
The majority of the deaths occurred in the Mexican state of Chihuahua where 10 people died. The remainder of the deaths were scattered over three other locations throughout the state with eight dead in Juarez, five killed in Cuahtemuc, and one killed in Parral.
NYC SUV bomb construction patterned after Al-Qaeda manual
Now-jailed Islamic terrorist Dhiren BAROT compiled a 39-page “instruction manual” that outlined the selection of targets, how to create bombs using propane tanks and fuel containers, and the use of SUVs and vans. BAROT also gave instructions on when to use such bombs to cause the maximum number of casualties.
We’re Engaged In a Terror War — And New York Is the Prime Target
Once again, we’re talking about another “terror act” taking place on U.S. soil.
Police release video of possible bomber
A security camera near the scene caught a man stopping to change his shirt
‘Absolutely, there will be more attacks in New York’
Muslim extremist warns America: Times Square just the beginning
Another reason the UN has become counterproductive
U.N. Elects Iran which sees women as property to Commission on Women’s Rights. Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”