by Jim Kouri, CPP On the day after the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria was attacked by a four-man team that used two vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices. Three of the attackers were killed and one was wounded; there are no known American casualties at this time....
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Two leaders of a nationwide employee-leasing conspiracy, that leased out hundreds of illegal aliens throughout the United States, pleaded guilty before US District Judge Kenneth Marra in the Southern District of Florida, while a third defendant was sentenced, according to the US Justice Department. Jaroslaw Sawczuk, 39, a Polish citizen...
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MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TORTURED!!! Government Does Nothing The ACLU has again decided that they know best how to win the fight against Islamic terrorists. They have recently filed a lawsuit, claiming that Jihadist Abu Zubayduh was subjected to illegal interrogation techniques that amounted to torture. As near as I can tell, the torture techniques...
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Think Progress is reporting that Air America radio will announce filing for bankruptcy protection on Friday according to three independent sources. The company has experienced financial difficulties throughout its tenure, continuing to request infusions of capital and suffering the loss of several high-profile hosts. Five employees were laid off Tuesday without severance. The radio...
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Do you believe in coincidences? Actually, I do — but not in all cases. There are things going on out there that could conceivably be coincidental, but it strains credulity to the nth degree to believe that. Let’s begin with the fact that belligerent Venezuelan “president” Hugo Chavez has publicly stated his belief that it...
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A federal judge has ordered a school in Annapolis in southeastern Missouri to suspend a program that gives free Bibles to fifth-grade students, ruling it improperly promotes Christianity.  I’m against the Gideons handing out free Bibles in schools, but I’m also against an Islamic organization passing out copies of the Koran. Scriptures have their place in...
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The United Nations brokered ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel is being bolstered by France. Re-read the previous sentence if you like for a repeated feeling of comic futility. How serious are the bureaucrats? The French government has sent 13 tanks to the region, each carrying a crew of three. The United Nations refers to this deployment a...
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by Jonathan David Morris I’ve never been comfortable calling 9/11 “9-11.†I’m not sure why this is. I’m not usually big on slash marks. Yet something about the hyphenated version of 9/11 has always bothered me. The only time I ever hyphenate the “9†and “11†in 9/11 is when I’m saving a file...
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Richard Durbin should be relieved. Last year the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat compared U.S. treatment of an accused al Qaeda terrorist to that accorded to prisoners in the Soviet gulags, the Nazi concentration camps and Pol Pot’s killing fields. Guantanamo Bay lacked ample amenities to satisfy Illinois’ No. 1 bleeding heart. The Dickster may...
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 Democrat delusions “On `This Week’ recently, former co-host (and daughter of a former Democratic congressman) Cokie Roberts stunned host George Stephanopoulos when she said before the Connecticut primary that it would be a “disaster for the Democratic Party” if Lamont defeated Lieberman. “Pushing the party to the left,” Roberts said, “is pushing the...
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 News from the pro-crime lobby: “But the last straw for American defenders of the God-given right to self-defense may have been the case of Melvin Spaulding, 71, arrested for attempted murder and held without bail in 2003 after he ran to the defense of a 63-year-old friend and neighbor being beaten by thugs...
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Like a tarantula that lurks in the shadows, radical feminism has insinuated itself into every American institution, waiting to pounce and extract its life blood, rendering the carcass lifeless and abandoned.  In 1964 the Democratic National Committee was riding high. Lyndon Johnson had just crushed Barry Goldwater by winning 61% of the popular...
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Well, it’s been over five years since 9/11, and that anniversary was marked by many in the traditional fashion: bashing George W. Bush. Here’s a quick sampler platter: Ted Kennedy said Bush’s speech Monday night used a national day of mourning to “commandeer the airwaves to give a speech that was designed not to unite the...
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Fast food not to blame for fat kids Children are getting fat because they are missing out on playing with their parents, who are tired when they get home from work, switch on the television and drink a beer. Indeed, children today are eating less fat than they were 30 years ago. A University...
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