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Why would anyone illegally in this country like and participate in the president's new change in immigration policy? It is an ICE bull's-eye on an undocumented immigrant's back -- and could convert that so-called dream into a giant nightmare.
Think about this:
Under the president's new immigration policy, those...
(559) Comments | Posted June 18, 2012 | 10:00 PM
This (below) is outrageous.
22 women have written a letter to a museum protesting an award to Former First Lady Bush. The award, the Alice Award, is to honor a woman for advancing women. This year's recipient is the Former First Lady.
I can't decide if the 22 protesting women...
(421) Comments | Posted June 13, 2012 | 12:10 PM
Of course I don't care how much the candidates raise for their campaigns (they have a right to raise as much money as they want) but, at best, this fundraising stuff has reached the silly point; and, more importantly, the 24/7 fundraising has a giant cost for the American people,...
(22) Comments | Posted June 4, 2012 | 2:35 PM
Over the weekend I caught up on some reading and noticed the level of swipes recently taken at Fox's CEO Roger Ailes. I thought, really? Why are some so obsessed with Roger -- obsessed to the point that they are so so so busy taking swipes at him? Is it...
(78) Comments | Posted May 29, 2012 | 9:46 AM
As you know, I traveled recently with Reverend Franklin Graham (and Samaritans Purse) to South Sudan and Sudan. In Sudan, home of dictator-president Omar al-Bashir, I saw starvation -- people eating bugs and leaves after their own president bombed their villages and continued to kill them from the air. Words can't adequately describe the cruelty... and it gets worse every single day. You can't live without food and water (and let me remind you, the temperatures can get over 100 degrees and these people don't even have shoes as they walk the rough terrain hoping to find food and water.) This is so so so cruel.
I know we are all war weary -- and for good reason. But I also know we have a giant collective heart and when we can do something that makes sense -- including that we have the ability and it is practical -- we want to. In looking at this crisis, I asked Reverend Graham what the world could do short of war. He had a rather simple answer: spike (damage) the runways of President Bashir so his planes can't take off... and then humanitarian groups can drop food and water for these people. Bashir's only way of attack is by the air -- and he is killing (and scaring) his people and making it unsafe for humanitarian organizations to drop food and water from the air or attempt to drive food into the Nuba Mountain area. Ruin his runways and it will be years before he can get them fixed.
You know this crisis is not imagined -- you have seen it with your own eyes in my pics and video. I know you hate the cruelty inflicted, too. You know that President Bashir is cruel beyond words to his own people -- look what he did in Darfur. And do I need to remind you that President Bashir is under indictment already in the International Criminal Court for genocide? No... of course... you know that. Bashir can't even travel outside his own country because he fears arrest.
Our politicians are consumed with the crisis in Syria and the suffering there -- and there is much there -- but I would like to draw their attention to this crisis, too. I know we can't police the world, but Reverend Graham's solution is a simple one and worth exploring.
One other thing: the people of the Nuba Mountains, numbering about 1.2 million, are NOT asking for money from us. They just want to live. Stop the bombing and the burning of their villages and they can take care of themselves as they have for decades. They just want the chance to live their lives and raise their families.
[The source of the posted video is Ryan Boyette. He is the American living in the Nuba Mountains. Click here for his website.]
Cross-posted from
(31) Comments | Posted May 24, 2012 | 2:29 PM
First... no, I don't have the answers and I don't pretend to have them. But I also am not delusional -- thinking things are different in Afghanistan and the Taliban than they are. I don't know about you, but I don't think looking the other way changes the reality of...
(233) Comments | Posted May 11, 2012 | 4:20 PM
Have you noticed? No one (absolutely no one) said ABC's Robin Roberts' interview of the president was in any way less than professional, thorough and news making.
But I have seen many snarky-ish references from snarky journalists' hypotheses about how ABC's Robin Roberts got the big interview with President Obama...
(253) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 8:37 AM
In the 1990′s, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said she was part Native American. It now appears she is not part Native American or if she is, it is 1/32. Her political opponent wants her to answer more questions about it and she is getting lots of heat.
So who...
(0) Comments | Posted April 18, 2012 | 10:41 AM
Watch this video: Reverend Franklin Graham at the caves where the people of South Sudan are hiding from President Bashir's bombings and burnings:
Cross-posted from GretaWire.
(76) Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 1:00 PM
As you know, I went to South Sudan and Sudan over the past weekend with Reverend Franklin Graham and Samaritans Purse.
The President of Sudan, President Bashir, is under indictment for war crimes and genocide for atrocities he committed in the western part of his country (Darfur.)
Now...
(270) Comments | Posted April 12, 2012 | 12:05 PM
I am rushing to draft this -- I have a flight to South Sudan in hours -- but I wanted to briefly weigh in on this latest storm. If I indelicately draft this, cut me some slack since I am rushing and have little time (none?) to spare, which I...
(16) Comments | Posted April 9, 2012 | 10:25 AM
I see that CNN's Susan Candiotti is getting some criticism for correctly -- factually -- stating what the Tulsa shooters said. It is disgusting what they said. It was both racist and crude.
I know it offends many, but why should the media sugarcoat the grotesque statements and make it...
(1222) Comments | Posted April 4, 2012 | 12:07 PM
What President Obama did two days ago when he bullied the Supreme Court and called them "unelected" -- and essentially threatened them -- was wrong. It also made him look like a fool. He was certainly not acting like a leader, but a schoolyard bully who wants his way at...
(666) Comments | Posted April 2, 2012 | 5:38 PM
Tune in to On the Record at 10pm tonight... if we have time, I am going to discuss this.
Every law school -- yes, even Harvard Law School -- teaches the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It was decided in 1803 (yes, 1803!). You read it your first year...
(1178) Comments | Posted April 1, 2012 | 1:29 PM
Yes, of course the president wants his signature health care law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court... but I suspect (suspect, since no honest person can say he knows) that it would help him politically if the statute were to be struck down in its entirety. This November election could...
(45) Comments | Posted June 20, 2012 | 4:04 PM