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Senate may not think it’s Amnesty - but Mexico does

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents recently arrested Julio Leija-Sanchez, the head of a large forgery operation creating counterfeit documents for illegal immigrants specifically focused on the expectation that the United States Senate would pass what he called “amnesty.” While many members of Congress and the President insist the current proposal isn’t amnesty, those that would [...]

Carter’s latest embarrassment

Our 39th President continues to embarrass and disappoint. The blood of dozens of slaughtered Fatah party members wasn’t even dry when Carter came to the defense of Hamas – a designated Islamic terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department – after a murderous coup in Gaza against members of President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party. The [...]

Tip of the Hat: Republican House Leader John Boehner

It isn’t nearly as much fun in the U.S. House of Representatives when you’re in the minority, if for no other reason than it is really difficult to accomplish much when your side has fewer votes than the other side. The minority party does its best to play the roll of the loyal opposition, trying [...]

Good News of the Month: Arrupe Jesuit High School

School’s out, and the papers have been full of stories about some of the struggles and challenges that students, parents, teachers and society in general face in today’s society. Much of the news and data is not all that encouraging. But, some certainly is.
As reported in a Denver Post front page feature story, Arrupe Jesuit [...]

Remarks by Bob Beauprez at Rocky Flats hearing

Former Congressman Bob Beauprez spoke on behalf of the Rocky Flats workers at a hearing in Lakewood, Colo. on June 12, 2007. Here is the audio of his remarks.

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Congress continues to manage the war

An obviously dejected Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced on Friday, June 8 that the White House was pulling the renomination of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace. Gates was unusually direct in addressing the press about the reasoning behind this about-face. The Sec-Def candidly admitted that members of Congress [...]

Another one bits the dust

United States authorities have announced the arrest of three men indicted for conspiring to sell millions of dollars of weapons to the revolutionary and anti-American terrorist organization FARC, aka: the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia. Working through informants, the US Drug Enforcement Agency nailed Monzer Al Kassar, a Syrian national who has been in [...]

Another foiled terror plot by Islamic Jihadist

While the Democrats were debating each other over who would retreat the fastest, another planned attack is foiled on American soil. This one at JFK International Airport.

In Case You Missed It: RMN features Beauprez column

Saturday’s Rocky Mountain News features a column by Bob Beauprez (”Ignoring the facts about Islamic jihad“) which he wrote in response to Paul Campos’ column from May 29 (”The elites’ war“). Campos, in his column, asserts that “the only reason we’re still in Iraq is because the American elites have almost no personal investment in this [...]