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TSA's "checkpoint-heavy" approach not effective?

hotair.com

December 17, 2010

Can you guess how many terrorists have been caught at checkpoints in American airports? Given all of the effort by TSA to reach out and touch as many people as possible - at least those they like - you may be surprised to hear that the answer is zero.

In nine years of increased and increasing checkpoint activity, not one terrorist has been stopped by the TSA; those who have gone through the checkpoints at home and abroad have only been caught by quick-thinking passengers. The Washington Post reports that a new consensus is building that the checkpoint system is not enough.

WikiLeaks founder Assange says Pentagon plans prosecution

reuters.com

December 12, 2010

Assange has been remanded in custody in Britain after a European arrest warrant was issued by Sweden, which wants to question Assange about allegations made by two women of sexual crimes. He has denied the allegations.

"I came to Sweden as a refugee publisher involved with an extraordinary publishing fight with the Pentagon, where people were being detained and there is an attempt to prosecute me for espionage," Assange said in an interview in the documentary, aired on Swedish public television. "So I am unhappy and disappointed with how the Swedish justice system has been abused," the 39-year-old Australian added in the documentary, which was made before his arrest.

Video: India "outraged" over TSA patdown of ambassador

hotair.com

December 10, 2010

As it turns out, the new security protocols from TSA don't just make American travelers unhappy.

India has lodged a formal protest after an incident in a Mississipi airport in which their ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, got a TSA patdown because she wore a sari while traveling. The State Department now says they're "concerned" about the treatment given the diplomat despite repeatedly telling the TSA agents that Shankar had diplomatic immunity.

Pigford's Original Black Farmers Unhappy Over Massive Fraud - Media Ignores

bigjournalism.com

December 10, 2010

Remember when Brian Williams showcased the story of Pigford whistleblower Jimmy Dismuke's firsthand account of fraud in the case?

"Even if you got a potted plant, that makes you a farmer," Dismuke recalled of the meetings he attended with Thomas Burrell, President of the Black Farmers and Agriculture Association. "I thought that was pretty odd because I was really a farmer. I didn't know that was the easy way you could farm and get money!"

DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay

examiner.com

December 8, 2010

On December 3, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, including Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wrote: "Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation's entire illegal immigrant population." In July 2010, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) released the results of a study which examined the costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local levels. The study found that U.S. state and local governments shell out $84.2 billion annually in various services (law enforcement, schools, social services, etc.), with California taxpayers alone, spending $21 billion on illegal aliens every year.

Chart of the ... year

hotair.com

December 7, 2010

This chart demonstrates the folly of the Obama administration's insistence that we have been experiencing a recovery and any sort of significant growth in job creation.

After hitting the nadir of job losses relative to our peak inter-recession employment, we have essentially flatlined for far longer than any other post-recession period. Nothing in the data shows a hint that we will soon break out of that pattern either, and Ben Bernanke says we'll probably go four to five more years on this same trajectory.

New Fed study suggests net job creation from Porkulus was...zero

hotair.com

December 6, 2010

Instead of adding two million jobs to the economy, the Fed finds that any new jobs added had disappeared by August of this year.

Well, all anyone needed to do was look at unemployment over the last 19 months to figure that much out. We have had 19 months of joblessness at 9% or higher, a record in the post-WWII era, despite the administration's insistence that the outlay would curtail the extension of unemployment. That number is lower than it should be, thanks to a generational low in the workforce-to-population ratio, too. The number of the unemployed and discouraged workers didn't drop; in fact, those numbers have grown since Porkulus.

The Press Continues to Lie About Palin's "Death Panels" Comment

bigjournalism.com

December 5, 2010

In regard to "death panels" the AP makes the same mistake made by every other commentator on this issue. It's time to set the record straight.

Yes, it's true there were no "death panel" provisions in the Affordable Care Act, but it's also true Palin's statements were never, ever aimed at a specific provision in the bill. They were always intended as statements about the dangers of turning health care over to government bureaucrats. Let's lay out the facts in detail and try to put down this pernicious media created myth. Sarah Palin's "death panels" comment appeared on Facebook on Friday August 7th, 2009. The post makes no mention of any specific element of the bill. Instead it directs readers to view this clip of Michele Bachmann on the the house floor.

Dem senator: Negotiating with the GOP on taxes is almost like negotiating with terrorists

hotair.com

December 3, 2010

Score one for Mark Halperin: They really are having a collective nervous breakdown over this.

In fairness, Menendez isn't making a moral comparison, just a dimwitted analogy about the perils of appeasing bad behavior (a Democratic first!), but since the media would duly soil itself over a Republican using the same rhetoric, I encourage you to grind his face in this in the comments. One lingering question: If the New Year's deadline for extending the cuts is what's creating this terrible "hostage" situation, why didn't our heavily Democratic majority deal with it earlier this year? And if the answer to that is that those darned Republican terrorists in the Senate would have filibustered, well, we'll see how much Democrats learn to appreciate "terrorist" tactics when they're back in the minority come 2013.

Cable reveals US behind airstrike that killed 21 children in Yemen

rawstory.com

December 2, 2010

A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks shows that the US military covered up the killing of dozens of civilians during a cruise missile strike in south Yemen in December 2009.

The secret cable from January 2010 corroborated images released earlier this year by Amnesty International, implicating the US in the use of cluster bombs. The cable was sent by Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to US General David Petraeus, saying his government would "continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours." According to the cable, this prompted Yemeni Deputy Prime Minister Rashad al-Alimi "to joke that he had just 'lied' by telling Parliament that the bombs in Arhab, Abyan, and Shebwa were American-made but deployed by the ROYG [Republic of Yemen Government]."

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