Demand aid in investigation of Fast & Furious program By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times Friday, May 18, 2012 House Republican leaders on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. demanding he comply with the GOP’s official investigation into Obama administration gun-running operation Fast & Furious, which allowed hundreds of guns [...]

May 7, 2012 By Leo W. Banks Our illegal immigration problem is over.  President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have delivered on their promises.  The border is finally secure. This narrative, building steam nationally, pays no mind to the elephant no one is talking about, and it’s one huge elephant. I’ll get to [...]

May 4, 2012 – By J.J. Green, wtop.com WASHINGTON – A wave of violence in Mexico has led to a string of gruesome discoveries. The bodies of nine people were found hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just 6 miles from the U.S. border. Five were men and four women. Pictures showed the [...]

May 4, 2012 (AP) MEXICO CITY – Three photojournalists who covered the perilous crime beat in the violence-torn eastern Mexico state of Veracruz were found slain and dumped in plastic bags in a canal on Thursday, less than a week after a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine was beaten and strangled in her home in [...]

By JASON RYAN (@JasonRyanABC) and LEE FERRAN April 25, 2012  Multiple airport screeners have been arrested for allegedly taking handsome bribes to look the other way while loads of illegal drugs slipped through security at Los Angeles International Airport, federal officials announced today. Two current and two former officials at the Transportation Security Administration were [...]

Apr 21, 2012 – By JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been out of sight for a week, speaking only through Twitter messages and written statements while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba. The lack of any appearances on television has Venezuelans wondering about what his unusual silence might [...]

By Rowan Scarborough The Washington Times Friday, April 20, 2012 The other war in Afghanistan – the one to reduce the opium poppy crop by eradication, crop trade-offs and threats – has seen substantial gains over the past five years as cultivation has dropped 32 percent. But one key anti-poppy program called the “Food Zone” [...]

Apr 14, 2012 – Katie Pavlich ST. LOUIS- Entering the Edward Jones arena to an applauding audience at the NRA Annual Convention in downtown St. Louis Friday, Congressman Darrell Issa made it clear his congressional investigation into the Operation Fast and Furious scandal isn’t going away until the Obama Justice Department comes clean. “The investigation [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Thursday, April 12, 2012 WASHINGTON — Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80/20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold here. The same 80-20 split obtains among users of illicit drugs. About 3 million people — less [...]

Analysts now talk of the possibility of a power struggle between the military and armed civilian factions. Apr 8, 2012 WSJ By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Hugo Chávez’s battle against cancer could serve as a learning experience for admirers of the Cuban health-care system, held up by the likes of American filmmaker Michael Moore as a [...]