Category Archives: Current Affairs

Saudi Arabia Warned US About Tamerlan Tsarnaev

As Obama is defending those responsible for keeping the US as safe as they can from terrorists, his pleas seem rather weak in the face of more information, in the form of an exclusive from the UK Daily Mail…..isn’t it funny that we have to get so much of our information on these types of […]

Did Administration Threaten Benghazi Whistleblowers?

Their lawyer says the O admin did (Fox News) At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned. Victoria Toensing, a former […]

GOP Challenges DHS On Ammo Purchases

I haven’t really touched on the massive ammo purchases made by the Department Of groping people letting criminal illegal aliens go deeming Conservatives terrorists Homeland Security over the past 2 years or more. So much of what was out there seemed to be more in the way of conspiracy theories. I’m not particularly concerned with […]

Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Receive Full Constitutional Rights?

There’s been a debate since Tsarnaev’s capture as to whether he should be offered a Miranda Warning and whether he should be declared an “enemy combatant”. Essentially, should be be given the full due process and protections offered under the law and the Constitution? Two of the biggest cheerleaders for designating him an enemy combatant […]

Support For Gun Control Slips Further

As the USA Today reports, this is supposedly partly due to the emotional slippage of time, as we move further and further away from actions of Adam Lanza. We can also presuppose that Americans realize that the laws offered (and in some cases, passed) will do little to nothing to stop the perpetrators. And that […]

Mother Jones Offers 11 Mystifying Things The Boston Bombers Did

This makes me wonder: are they wondering how bat guano Islamist jihadis could do crazy things, or are they going conspiracy theory (Mother Jones) Dzhokhar and Tamerlan’s motive—or motives—is still unclear (um, no: they were motivated by “religious fervor“, ie, the Religion of Peace.) But that’s not the only unknown. Many of the Tsarnaevs’ actions […]

One Boston Bomber Suspect Dead, 2nd On The Run

A very fluid situation, at least regarding the 2nd suspected Boston Marathon bomber. (UK Daily Mail) One of the Boston bombing suspects is dead and the second is on the loose and said to be ‘armed and dangerous’ after a dramatic shootout in the suburbs of the city. The terrorist dubbed ‘Suspect 1’ by the […]

Sad: Slight Majority Of Americans Say Redistribute Wealth

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin Many wise men have said something similar. Alas, no one is listening (Politico) Nearly 6 in 10 Americans say wealth is distributed unfairly in the United States, and a majority want the federal government to […]

Ted Nugent Schools CNN Anchor On Gun Trafficking

Via Doug Powers, who says you should skip to the 6 minute mark in the video of the interview between Nugent and Erin Burnett for the really fun stuff, where Ted tries to find common ground that Erin had been looking for and Erin can’t escape the interview quick enough Nugent: I think we can […]

Keep Calm And Carry On. And Blame Righty

James Joyner points out that the Keep Calm And Carry On graphic is showing up all over the ‘net The Atlantic’s Bruce Schneier explains As the details about the bombings in Boston unfold, it’d be easy to be scared. It’d be easy to feel powerless and demand that our elected leaders do something — anything […]

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