Fox News: Former Vice President Dick Cheney tipped his hat to President Obama for authorizing the military operation that led to the killing of Usama bin Laden last weekend, but he lamented the end of controversial Bush-era interrogations that many conservatives believe contributed to America’s greatest counterterrorism success. In an interview with “Fox News Sunday” [...]
The Daily Mail: Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis – and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard. Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Connection flight from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charlotte, North Carolina before they [...]
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WSJ WASHINGTON—The U.S. government released five video clips of Osama bin Laden that were seized by Navy SEALs during the raid on his compound, providing the first photographic evidence of what officials described as the al Qaeda leader’s “active command-and-control center” in Pakistan. The videos, one of which shows bin Laden as recently as Nov. [...]
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department is developing a comprehensive index to measure Southwest border security in a new way that looks deeper into the quality of life of Americans who live near Mexico. Instead of just counting arrests and drug seizures, the new index would look at community concerns about [...]
Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters. In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, [...]
A newly-released video shot inside Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan lair shows the world’s most wanted terrorist lived in garbage-strewn squalor, opting for security over style. The brief tour of the his hideaway, taped by Al Jazeera, indicates Bin Laden, his family members and other associates were hardly living the high life. The video taken some [...]
Yahoo News: The most expensive public enemy in American history died Sunday from two bullets. As we mark Osama bin Laden’s death, what’s striking is how much he cost our nation—and how little we’ve gained from our fight against him. By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the [...]
Phoenix (AP) – What do dozens of American billionaires talk about when they get together? Their topic this week was of course money; not how to make it, but how to give it away. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Friday that a private gathering was a great chance for the billionaires who have pledged to [...]
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