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How much information is too much information when a nation is at war to publicly disclose about our on-going attempts to achieve a resolute victory over terrorists? Congressman Keith Ellison, a relatively unknown figure from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was elected to the U.S. Congress and took office January 4, 2007. Ellison is a close friend and political confidante of Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ellison lays claim to being the first African-American from his state and the first Muslim to be seated in Congress. He was accepted by Americans, but he has not yet accepted America as his...

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY MAP----TERRORIST ENTRY POINTS Map of First Private Texas-Canada-Mexico Trade Corridor Construction of Hway in Mexico Bracewell & Giuliani Firm Advises Cintra in First Privatization of Toll Road in Texas DALLAS (March 1, 2007) Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Texas-based law firm with global connections) advised Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a Spanish transportation company, in its successful bid to develop State Highway 121 into a toll road through Collin and Denton counties ("trade road" is four football fields wide). The award to Cintra, approved by the Texas Transportation Commission, is the first privatization of a...

"That needs to change" was Oprah Winfrey's reply to Nan Talese of Doubleday, publisher of "A Million Little Pieces," after James Frey's "memoir" was exposed as a tissue of lies. Doubleday had tried to escape responsibility by saying that publishers don't fact-check nonfiction books. To President George W. Bush's approval of the $6.5 billion sale of terminals at six of our most important ports to the United Arab Emirates, Americans are shouting, "That needs to change." We are fed up with the post-Sept. 11 failure (i.e., the refusal) of the Bush administration to secure our borders and ports. Bush's defense...

What Under Secretary of State John R. Bolton said publicly in 2001 could explain the Left’s 2005 opposition to his confirmation to a post at The United Nations. He’s a Constitutionalist. The brouhaha over Bolton is puzzling at first. But the rat in the woodpile is often found when you think about Liberty and rights of Americans. That’s the scent trail to follow, and this trail stinks, because it sees a furtherance of rights of Americans being attacked from abroad. Liberals have fairly good memories, and they hold a grudge. They’re patient in many respects and they take the hand-off...

U.N. panel to frame guidelines on legality of pre-emptive strike By Heather J. Carlson THE WASHINGTON TIMES From the World section Members of an international panel studying United Nations' operations say the group hopes to lay down clear rules declaring when it is legal for a nation to use pre-emptive military force in its own defense. The issue grows out of the international controversy over the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq without a final U.N. Security Council resolution explicitly authorizing the war, said panel member Gareth Evans, a former foreign minister of Australia. "I expect the panel to be...

Bush Immigration Plan Borders On Treason By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon January 9, 2003 President George W. Bush wants to give some eight to ten million illegal aliens, most of them from Mexico, legal status. The plan would legalize these aliens as "temporary workers," which would allow them to work freely in the United States without fear of deportation. The plan is so disastrous to our country's well being and so fraught with potential risk to our country's security that the plan should be regarded as bordering treason! Already, more than ten percent of Mexico's...

"US Threat Perceptions and Security Concerns" Posted: 2003-06-23 Today many foreign policy experts are reassessing the threats to American security in the post 9-11 world. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon brought America’s attention to terrorism, but threats originating from rouge regimes and traditional states still remain. This paper will show that global terrorism is the greatest short-term threat to US security, but that it is not the only threat. Rouge regimes also pose a serious threat to American security. And in the long-term, the most dangerous threat to US security is any technology or event...

"We’re still living in the shadows of pre-9-11,” warned Steven Emerson, author of "American Jihad, The Terrorists Living Among Us.” "It could happen as easily today,” Emerson emphasized, gazing over at his fellow panel members, all gathered Friday in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Convention Center for a final review of "Security Beyond 9-11,” a program which concluded the American Society for Industrial Security International (ASIS) seminar on all matters dealing with the protection of America’s infrastructure. Joined by Michael McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency; Gen. Eugene Habiger, former security chief at the Department of Energy; Ken Alibek, former first...

Vice President Dick Cheney's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars on the need to end Saddam Hussein's terrorist regime in Iraq was a much-needed dose of cold, hard reality. Those who are wringing their hands over the possibility of a pre-emptive strike against Iraq seem not to remember that there has already been a pre-emptive strike against Iraq — two decades ago. The Israelis bombed a nuclear facility that Saddam Hussein was building at that time — much to the consternation and condemnation of so-called world opinion. But many an American soldier may have come back alive from the...