The already dubious “Iranian” terror plot to assassinate a Saudi ambassador and blow up the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, continues to unravel into farce with the revelation that the so called “mastermind” behind the plot is a failed used car salesman described by those who know him as a “joke”.
Today we have a pleasant and exceedingly rare surprise: a major media outlet noting that the very behavior which the U.S. Government and all Serious People are now righteously condemning is behavior in which the U.S. itself routinely engages. From The Los Angeles Times Editorial Page, entitled “Iran’s plot — and a U.S. double standar... (more)
President Barack Obama said today that Iran will "pay a price" through sanctions and international pressure for its recent hostile behavior including the alleged Iran-directed plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S. in Washington, D.C.
Echoing previous statements by top U.S. officials, Obama said that when dealing with Iran, "We don't take any options off the table," but did not make any mention of possible military action in favor of pushing harsh economic sa... (more)
This parody may soon be illegal. On September 22, 2011, H.R. 3011 was introduced in the House. It is entitled the “Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act of 2011” and it contains some curious language.
Two thirds of the way through the ponderous bill, in Sec. 295, we find the following:
Whoever, except with the written permission of the Assi
Since September, a public-school district in Florida has been taking fingerprint scans at the entrance to schools as a way to monitor attendance. The scans are compared against a database of students to detect truants. As in most highly intrusive school policies, parents are thrown a bone of control by allowing them to request an “opt out” for their children. An... (more)
The Miami City Commission unanimously approved a $550,000 settlement Thursday for a woman who filed a lawsuit after she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a police o... (more)
For the third time in recent years, Waukegan police are being sued over a criminal investigation called into question by DNA testing.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Chicago federal court, convicted murderer James Edwards alleges that officers coerced him into confessing that he killed Waukegan appliance store owner Fred Reckling in 1994.
Edwards' suit alleges that the officers beat and intimidated him over the course of 26 hours until he signed a statement, typed by... (more)
For Cain on the housing bubble, see Herman Cain, "The Media Say the Economy Is Horrible, So It Must Be True."
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2005/Commentary_The_Media_Say_the_Economy_Is_Horrible_So_It_Must_Be_True.html
For Cain on the economy in 2006, see Herman Cain, "More Economic Bull from Media Bears."
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commenta... (more)
A Colorado Springs grandmother who suffered a heart attack when drug agents stormed into her home in 2009 has filed suit claiming the officers’ tactics were “extreme, unreasonable and outrageous.”
Rose Ann Santistevan, 71, is suing for medical expenses and noneconomic losses such as pain and suffering.
If you reside in America and it is dinnertime, you have almost certainly broken the law. In his book Three Felonies a Day, civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate estimates that the average person unknowingly breaks at least three federal criminal laws every day. This toll does not count an avalanche of other laws — for example misdemeanors or civil violations such as disobeying a civi... (more)
In Flint, Michigan, Vice President Biden warned residents that if the "American Jobs Act" isn't passed that there will probably be more rapes and murders in the city and across the nation.
Of course, everything he says in this is complete bullsh*t. See "Fewer Snouts in the Trough, Less Crime in the Streets."
United States officials in the Obama administration and Justice Department have explicitly claimed that Iran’s supreme leader and the Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of the so-called terror plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States. But evidence of that is lacking and many officials have admitted there are gaps in their understanding of the plot.... (more)
The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto sacred American soil to commit Terrorism — against Saudi Arabia and possibly Israel — is what Bill Kristol and John Bolton would feverishly dream up while dropping acid and madly cackling at the possibility that they could get someone to believe it. But sin... (more)
After initially vowing to plead innocent and call Kurt Haskell, the man who saw him being aided onto Delta Flight 253 by a well dressed man, as a defense witness, alleged underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has changed his mind and admitted all eight charges against him, thereby protecting accomplices involved in the plot.
“Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to detonate an explosive device in his underwear aboard a Christmas 2009 flight to ... (more)
Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell said he plans to file a civil lawsuit against the government in the underwear bomber case now that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has suddenly reversed course and decided to plead guilty.
"Abdulmutallab's reversal now means that Detroit Attorney Kurt Haskell's contention that the plot was, as in almost every other terror case made public, a product of government entrapment, and that the US intelligence establish... (more)
Earlier this week at the OWS on Manhattan, Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change tried to interview the former Special Advisor for Green Jobs in the Obama administration, Van Jones, about the demand by the families of 9/11 victims for a new investigation.
In the above video, Jones attempts to avoid answering the question. His security people manhandle Rudkows... (more)
FREMONT (CBS SF) – Halloween is still weeks away, but already a popular Haunted House in Fremont is being forced to close its doors after the city called it a public safety hazard.
For the past seven years, Chris Stelle has transformed his parents backyard into an elaborate haunted house for Halloween. Thousands of friends and neighbors have been through the annual freak show.
But this year, the city of Fremont got wise to the house, constructed mostly out of ... (more)
