The Philippines is one of the most westernized countries in Asia with strong ties to the US and the United Nations. Yet a local warlord that doubles as a governor, Andal Ampatuan, just massacred 57 people —12 of which were journalists — to prevent a gubernatorial candidate from filing his papers. Sound crazy? I’ll say. What’s crazier is what we […]
Massive car bombs and suicide bombers. Rocket and organized gun attacks. Senseless killings of innocent civilians and city officials. Take away the scenery and language, and the threat of terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland is not that much different from those in Israel. So what does the recent 400-pound car bomb that failed to detonate […]
The silver screen is infamous for featuring bumbling intelligence agents who hoard sensitive information from local agencies. This is not too far from the truth when it comes to the bloodbath at Ft. Hood. Consider the FBI monitored email exchanges released Saturday in the Washington Post. True to Oscar Wilde’s quote, “Reality imitates art far […]
Some neighborhoods grow flowers. Others grow gardens. And still others tend to a virulent crop: homegrown jihadists. Take John Allen Muhammad for instance. Muhammad is the notorious DC sniper who mowed down at least 10 people in his path. He terrorized the greater part of DC, even turning his .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle (the civilian version of the […]
Remind me again why the federal government is dead set on paying a figure that could top$75 million in security measures to prosecute five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators, including mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, when it just released our widest-ever deficit of $176.36 billion in October? This is just one of the shockers that occurred in Wednesday’s Senate […]
