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Dear Iran: “Of course you know, this means war!” — Updated

Posted by: Phineas on October 12, 2011 at 2:01 pm » 10 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Or, it would, if we had an administration with the spine of a Warner Bros. cartoon character. ABC broke the news yesterday of an Iranian assassination plot foiled by the FBI and the DEA: The new case, called Operation Red Coalition, began in May when an Iranian-American from Corpus Christi, Texas, approached [...]

 

Things you don’t expect to see on your commute

Posted by: Phineas on September 22, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Such as a drug gang dumping 35 bodies on the highway: Suspected drug traffickers dumped 35 bodies at rush hour beneath a busy overpass in the heart of a major Gulf coast city as gunmen pointed weapons at frightened drivers. Mexican authorities said Wednesday they are examining surveillance video for clues to [...]

 

Mexican police operating from US soil

Posted by: Phineas on August 27, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas At some point, someone in authority is going to have to admit there is a war going on in Mexico and that our national security is at stake, because we’re already fighting it: The Obama administration has expanded its role in Mexico’s fight against organized crime by allowing the Mexican police to [...]

 

Mexico: their pain is our gain?

Posted by: Phineas on August 13, 2011 at 1:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Well, it apparently is at least in Deep South Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, whereto many Mexican businesses are relocating to escape the violence just south of the border: “If you think about South Texas, we’re like a big thumb sticking into Mexico. We have access to the port, through rail; [...]

 

One reason why visiting Mexico may be a not-good idea

Posted by: Phineas on August 12, 2011 at 3:11 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas That little problem of being caught in the middle: A Valley mother says night terrors and fear are all she has left after armed men stole her sense of security. The woman says she’s trying to stay strong for her seven children. She ran the gates, breaking them, at the Donna International [...]

 

OMG! Laredo invaded!!

Posted by: Phineas on August 8, 2011 at 3:01 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas This time (1), by a Mexican Army helicopter that got a wee bit lost: A Mexican military helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport by mistake, said a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Mucia Dovalina, the uniform public affairs officer for the Laredo Port of Entry, said the helicopter [...]

 

Genius: Gunwalker targets were paid FBI informants

Posted by: Phineas on July 18, 2011 at 3:34 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Remember, this is a product of the Smartest Administration Ever(tm). Key summary quote from Bob Owens: To simplify: the Department of Justice was paying ATF agents to ignore federal laws in order to provide weapons to criminal informants paid by the FBI, who then distributed those weapons to other cartel members who [...]

 

Gunwalker: Holder’s resignation is almost inevitable

Posted by: Phineas on July 6, 2011 at 9:44 pm » 28 Comments

**Posted by Phineas And the only way that doesn’t happen is if he is fool-enough to stay in office, Obama is fool-enough not to fire him, and Congress has no choice but to remove him from office. Consider: On the 4th of July, a national holiday, acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, [...]

 

Predictable, really

Posted by: Phineas on June 22, 2011 at 2:18 pm » 12 Comments

**Posted by Phineas The marketing divisions of the Democratic Party, aka The New York Times and The Washington Post, have launched a vigorous defense of the Obama administration in the wake of scandalous revelations about Operation Fast and Furious (“Gunwalker”;) by launching a smear campaign against Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the committee investigating [...]

 

Gunwalker: the scandal that breaks the Obama administration?

Posted by: Phineas on June 14, 2011 at 3:02 pm » 17 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I’ve said for a long time that I think Eric Holder is the worst Attorney General since the wretched A. Mitchell Palmer (1) and should be forced to resign or be impeached. From his failure to protect voting rights on a color-blind basis to his vindictive persecution of CIA interrogators questioning al [...]