Jul 3, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The Americas' top international diplomat flew to Honduras on Friday to give the coup-backed government a firm ultimatum: Restore the president within 24 hours or face crippling sanctions. The head of the interim government rallied thousands of supporters in front of the national palace and pledged to stand firm in the face ...
Continue ReadingJul 3, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
It warms my heart to hear that the people of South Carolina are locked and loaded, ready to fight back for their community instead of cowering in their homes and waiting for the Police to save their asses. GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) - Sheriff's deputies searched Friday for a serial killer blamed for four deaths ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 1 Comment ›› Pat Dollard
Tina Meier holds photos of her daughter LOS ANGELES — A federal judge tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself. In his ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge George Wu acquitted Lori Drew of misdemeanor counts of ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 126 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
h/t The Dame Truth Note From a Cop The fear on the street is palpable. Ever since the election of Barack Obama as President of these United States in November 2008, coupled with the election of a democrat party majority in both the U.S. House and Senate, concern for the United States and personal safety has ignited ...
Continue ReadingJul 2, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
Sonia Sotomayor was not mentioned in this article, despite the fact that the very court that she is nominated for found one of her most prominent recent rulings to be Unconstitutional and racist. Why wasn't she mentioned? To keep her out of it. To shy off the responsibility she took and abused, so that she ...
Continue ReadingJul 1, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
And once again, what has Obama done about all of this? You guessed correct, absolutely nothing! If Obama is willing to indirectly support men like Manuel Zelaya and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, what do you think this means about his foreign policy, let alone his motives for doing so? TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The Organization of American States ...
Continue ReadingJul 1, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
On a lighter note however, a few years back I lived not but a few miles away from a certain gun store. One morning I drove by on my way to I-don't-remember-what, and there were police cars and even helicopters everywhere, surrounding the building. I figured a gun store would be an interesting place to ...
Continue ReadingJun 29, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
A protege of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro gets ousted from office for trying to lift Presidential Term Limit restrictions, and Obama does everything but congratulate the people who stood up for freedom and true Democracy. Why? Is it because Zelaya is an ally of some of the biggest Socialists/Communists in the known world, just ...
Continue ReadingJun 29, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: NEW YORK — Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment. Scattered applause and whoops broke out in the crowded Manhattan courtroom after ...
Continue ReadingJun 29, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
TEHRAN (AP) - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. ___ Iran's election oversight body on Monday declared the hotly disputed ...
Continue ReadingJun 22, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy said the Muslim burqa would not be welcome in France, calling the full-body religious gown a sign of the "debasement" of women. In the first presidential address to parliament in 136 years, Sarkozy faced critics who fear the burqa issue could stigmatize France's Muslims and said he supported banning ...
Continue ReadingJun 20, 2009 18 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Transterrestrial Musings: This is an email that has apparently been making the rounds in the general aviation community: Excerpt: As the days go by I find myself more and more apprehensive about the drift of America toward becoming what, not to mince words, can be described as a “police state.†To the average citizen ...
Continue ReadingJun 19, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
The WashingtonTimes: By Bill Wilson In firing AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin last week, President Obama probably thought he and his wife, Michelle, were the ones "sending the message." After all, dispensing petty political retribution on behalf of one's crooked friends is the "Chicago way," is it not? And the firing of Mr. Walpin would no doubt have ...
Continue ReadingJun 19, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
NSA Headquarters TheIntelligenceDaily: By Tom Eley (WSWS) -- Several current and former agents within the National Security Agency (NSA), speaking on condition of anonymity, have told the New York Times that the spy agency likely monitors millions of e-mail communications and telephone calls made by Americans. The new revelations follow the disclosure in April that the NSA’s monitoring ...
Continue ReadingJun 19, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
ABCNews: By JASON RYAN and MADDY SAUER The flamboyant financier, 'Sir' Allen Stanford has been charged with fraud, conspiracy and obstruction in a 21 count indictment handed down by the Department of Justice. He faces a maximum sentence of 250 years. Stanford surrendered to the FBI in Virginia last night and is expected to appear at ...
Continue ReadingJun 19, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: The U.S. military is planning to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned. The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast ...
Continue ReadingJun 18, 2009 26 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Political Punch: ABCNews’ Jake Tapper & Matt Jaffe report The Obama administration’s disputes with government watchdogs do not end with fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Behind the scenes, the Treasury Department is embroiled in a disagreement with Neil Barofsky, the watchdog for the $700 billion government bailout Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The dispute was revealed ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday there may be 50 or more trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees as the Obama administration works to shut the detention center by early next year. Holder discussed the plan before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where the senior Republican called him "too soft" on terrorism while a ...
Continue ReadingJun 17, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Fox News The White House insists the first lady had nothing to do with the firing of Gerald Walpin, former inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service who was summarily dismissed by President Obama last week. A top Republican senator is asking whether First Lady Michelle Obama's office played any role in last ...
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