As far as politics go, yesterday was a big day in Washington, DC. I happened to have been in the Rayburn House Office Building late yesterday, long after the Government Reform and Oversight Committee held the Attorney General in contempt of Congress. The media was gone. Staffers were roaming up cleaning up. [...]
What a tangled web the radical Islamists weave. Islamic terrorist groups continue to pop up throughout the Western Hemisphere. The latest dispatch comes to us from the U.S. Attorney’s Office right here in Northern Virginia. The press released issued yesterday states in part:
Ayman Joumaa, a/k/a “Junior,” 47, of Lebanon, was indicted by a federal [...]
If you want to attract a new generation of Republican voters, focus on issues, not race. And when it comes to wooing Americans of Hispanic descent, or what the mainstream media mistakenly labels as Latinos, Hispanic-Americans, etc., my party needs to learn a lot if it is going to succeed in the long-term.
Balkanizing American [...]
Just a few years ago, you could not get people in this town to focus on the pockets of instability throughout the Western Hemisphere. It is not top-ranked news but, as of late, it has become the issue du jour in some wonk circles. Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan still dominate the headlines and think tank [...]
Seattle resident Yuri Montgomery (aka, Yuri Malinkovski) received a New Year’s present of sorts from Uncle Sam. He was slapped with a $340,000 civil penalty and was banned from exporting from the U.S. for 30 years. If he behaves for ten years, the government will only require an up front payment $17,500. The balance of [...]
Our NAFTA and long-time partner is struggling to contain an insurgency that threatens to redo the political and economic landscape of Mexico for decades to come. A few days ago Texas Governor suggested that every option be put on the table to deal with this problem, including the military because we have the “same situation [...]
Transparency International released its 2010 corruption index. It ranks Communist Cuba – the most corrupt government in the entire Western Hemisphere – in the same bucket with Colombia and less corrupt than democratic Honduras or Mexico. This is not the first time TI investigators do this. They seem to have a soft spot for [...]
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko signed agreements with representatives of seven countries for peaceful cooperation in nuclear safety matters while in Vienna, Austria this week. India-U.S. military cooperation may get a boost next week when the Indian defense minister visits DC. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved by [...]
Earlier this month, the Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued new guidance on Informal Value Transfer Systems (IVTS), i.e., hawala, hundi, fei ch’ien, or phoe kuan, among others. While an Iranian opposition group claims to have a exposed a secret nuclear facility in Iran, the U.S. Government seeks [...]
Based only on publicly available information, the answer to the headline question should be, very likely. To that end, Representative Sue Myrick (R-North Carolina) yesterday released a video regarding new information about Hezbollah operating in Mexico and along the Southern US border.
Earlier this summer Myrick also released a video about the letter she sent [...]
Of all the absurd things that The Washington Post could report about the Mexican drug cartel wars, today’s above the fold, front page piece on U.S. grenades would have to be it. Resurrecting Cold War-era wounds about how communism was defeated, the Post even managed to make indirect pokes at Ronald Reagan and George H. [...]
On the resignation of DNI Blair, Frank Gaffney penend this week, Don’t Stop with the DNI. Gaffney says, “[w]hile the exact reasons for Admiral Blair’s departure have yet to be fully explained, chances are they involved frustrations he and others felt with the office of DNI and its dysfunctional relationship to the rest [...]
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