By TexasFred (Cross posted from TexasFreds) CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die. Join us or die, drug kingpins warn Mexican police The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico’s acting federal police chief... Read Full Story

Dooms day prognosticators are warning of dire circumstances should Americans elect either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, or any combination thereof. John McCain, we are warned, is our only hope. There are those, including this conservative writer, who disagree most vehemently with the last part of that alleged conventional wisdom. For example, over at the Conservative Post, Scott Miller has this to say: “The nomination of a pro-Amnesty, anti-tax cutting, Gitmo-closing, anti... Read Full Story

By Roger W. Gardner (Cross posted from Radar Site) “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” Osama bin Laden “Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain. I believe that it’s not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn’t sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he... Read Full Story

By Duane Lester (Originally published at All American Blogger) Operation: Hearts and Minds is a Newsvine group I started to detail the positive news about our military that is often overlooked. Too many good news pieces are not reported on because of body counts or the “If it bleeds, it leads” attitude of the media. Quite a few of those stories end up here. I also try to cover a story on the podcast about our military and show the progress they are making around the world. But there... Read Full Story

The amnesty travesty considered by Congress last year included a fundamental and fatal flaw: It relied on people who have shown a blatant disregard for U.S. laws to become obedient and lawful. Did Senators McCain and Kennedy and President Bush really expect illegal aliens to do the following? - Heads of household voluntarily return to Mexico in order to qualify for citizenship consideration? - Aliens with criminal histories voluntarily come forward for background checks? - Aliens fork... Read Full Story

We live in a dangerous world. According to the European Union, that world will become exponentially more dangerous in the coming years. An internal EU document leaked to the Financial Times states that Iran will likely go nuclear in the near Future. “Attempts to engage the Iranian administration in a negotiating process have so far not succeeded,”says the document. “At some stage we must expect that Iran will acquire the capacity to enrich uranium on the scale required for a weapons programme... Read Full Story

On May 14 Barack Obama held a private meeting at Macomb Community College with Hassan Qazwini. Qazwini is the leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Debbie Schlussel describes Qazwini as Hezbollah's most important imam and agent in America. Obama's meeting with Qazwini came to light because of a brief report in the Detroit Free Press (with the photo above) deriving from Qazwini and his mosque. The Obama campaign has not itself posted any news account or press release regarding... Read Full Story

Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama says Israel is a "constant wound" and a "constant sore" that infects "all of our foreign policy." Obama, under fire for attracting praise and support for his presidential run from the terrorist group Hamas, spoke to Atlantic Monthly at length about his views of the Middle East. Full Article ... Read Full Story

A few years ago, Harvard psychiatric instructor Kenneth Levin wrote "The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege." In this illuminating book, Levin examines the Israeli experience of concessionary negotiations with a "peace partner" openly dedicated to Israel’s destruction. He also examines the historical Jewish Diaspora experience in which Jewish populations typically identified with their tormentors and even echoed their anti-Semitism. Such interactions are driven by a permanent... Read Full Story

No one, whether a mother, father, or family member touched by reproductive loss, deals with grief and loss in the same way. “I was completely unprepared for the emotional fallout,” says Michaelene Fredenburg, author of “Changed: making sense of your own and a loved one’s abortion experience” about her abortion in a new book on loss experienced from abortion. “For years I suffered in silence,” she remembers. Full Article ... Read Full Story