From the monthly archives: August 2008
A leading, yet elusive figure of El Salvador’s primary political opposition party has come under legal and political scrutiny in his country for allegedly offering to sell weapons and arrange business deals with Latin America’s largest home-grown terrorist organization, the Colombian FARC-People’s Army. If this link is confirmed, the impact of this finding goes well beyond [...]
Et Tu, Russia? That phrase came to mind when a politically anemic European Union (EU) responded to a new Tsarist-like Russia trampling in Stalin-like fashion the free and democratic state of Georgia. Rather than announcing the immediate condemnation of the invasion, the French-led EU dawdled. European leaders eventually expressed indignation, but it was too little, too late. And [...]
A U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese-owned company located in Columbia, Maryland recently paid a little over $1 million to settle allegations of violations of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. According to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, between May 2003 and October 2006, Minxia Non-Ferrous Metals allegedly acted without an OFAC [...]
Last month I posted an item that generated a great deal of critical email from folks in the southwest and southern California. You can read the prior post here, “On Mexico, Terrorism, Cross-Border Violence, and U.S. Interests.” A colleague sent me a link yesterday on a related matter from Michelle Malkin’s site that caught [...]
This week, U.S. Department of Energy officials are meeting with counterparts in Brazil to discuss energy cooperation. At about the same time Brazil announced new construction to complete another civilian nuclear reactor, Brazil’s Energy Secretary said this week that Brazil could benefit from U.S. technology and experiences in dealing with nuclear waste. The U.S. should consider [...]
Chavez and his supporters do not care about America’s poor, they are using them to advance their anti-American agenda. The folks at Casa de Maryland should return that money. I doubt that they will.
If a U.S. non-profit organization was accepting money from a terrorist, a terrorist organization, a state sponsor of terrorism [...]
Our law is clear on the timing of changes on our part and it is clearly not ripe for any change, much less dealing with these claims matters. Cuba remains an active supporter of terrorist groups throughout the Americas; harbors fugitives, including cop killers from U.S. law; is seeking U.S. military and commercial secrets to [...]
The Republican Party used to stand for something that people could easily identify with including low taxes, strong national defense, law and order. Our leaders did not negotiate with terrorists, they eliminated evil doers and those that supported them. We were the Party that unabashedly championed the private sector and corporations as the source of [...]
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