Congress Probes DEA Drug Money Laundering Scheme
| by Alex Newman |
 As the “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking scandal continues to grow, Congress is now investigating a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) program that was laundering money for Mexican cartels. Meanwhile, multiple cartel leaders and reports continue to suggest that the federal government is deeply involved in the narcotics and arms trades.According to an article in the New York Times that first revealed the DEA money-laundering scheme to the public, U.S. drug agents supervised by the Justice Department likely laundered hundreds of millions in illegal profits — maybe more. The DEA and other agencies also helped send the illicit cash back across the border to Mexico in operations “orchestrated to get around sovereignty restrictions,” the Times reported in the article, headlined "U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels." |
Mexican Drug Cartels Operating in at Least 1,286 U.S. Cities
| by Kelly Holt |
 On April 13, All Headline News reported that the influence of Mexican drug cartels operating in U.S. cities
is growing because cartel members are becoming residents. Roberta
Jacobson, Deputy Secretary of State for Mexico and Canada, brought this
information to a political forum in Washington, D.C., quoting a March 27
report from the Justice Department. The findings are also being widely
disseminated in the Mexican media.The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) report, according to Jacobson, listed the cartels with the most influence in the U.S. as follows: the Sinaloa cartel, operating in 75 U.S. cities; the Gulf and Zetas cartels, both in 37 cities; the Juarez, in 33 cities; the Beltran Leyva Organization, in 30; La Familia, in 27; and Tijuana, in 21. This list contains the largest and most widely known cartels; the Zetas organization, comprised mostly of Mexican Army special forces soldiers, is considered to be one of the most vicious. The unnamed cities are all said to have seen a substantial increase in drug sales and violence. |
What to Do as the Drug Cartel War Moves into the U.S.
| by T. Dan Tolleson |
 The drug cartel war moves into the U.S.On Monday, November 21st, D.E.A. agents in unmarked cars were discreetly following a large chemical tanker truck carrying 300 pounds of concealed marijuana as they monitored a "controlled delivery" — a law enforcement trap for drug smugglers. Suddenly, in a secluded area of suburban Houston, at least three vehicles rapidly approached the truck, and several members of Los Zetas, a dangerous Mexican drug cartel, jumped out of the vehicles, "yanked open the passenger cab door and repeatedly shot Chapa [the truck driver], whose hands had been raised in the air," tossed his body to the street, and may have been about to drive off with the truck, when dozens of D.E.A. agents and local law enforcement converged on the scene, killed one member of Los Zetas, and arrested four others. Something had definitely gone wrong with this controlled delivery. |
The Other Unconstitutional War
| by Laurence M. Vance |
 It
wasn’t long after World War II ended that U.S. troops were once again
involved in another foreign war. This time, however, there was a notable
difference. After North Korea invaded the South in 1950, President
Truman intervened with U.S. combat troops in a United Nations “police
action.” There was no congressional declaration of war. There was not
even the slightest pretense of consulting Congress.On five different occasions, the United States had declared war on other countries: the War of 1812, the Mexican War (1848), the Spanish-American War (1898), World War I (1917), and World War II (1941 against Japan, Germany, and Italy; 1942 against Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania). |
AG Holder May Be Held in Contempt for "Fast & Furious" Cover-up
| by Alex Newman |
 Attorney General Eric Holder faced tough questions about the “Fast and Furious”
gun-trafficking scandal from outraged members of Congress during a
Thursday hearing, but he continued to defiantly stonewall while refusing
to hand over key documents subpoenaed in the congressional
investigation. Republican lawmakers responded by telling the Justice
Department boss to resign and saying that if the cover-up continues, he
could be charged with contempt of Congress.Obama’s top law enforcer defended the Justice Department’s stonewalling by falsely claiming that providing information about the deadly federal operations to congressional investigators would somehow violate the “separation of powers.” He said an internal investigation is ongoing. But lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were not buying it. |
Russia, China Block UN Vote on Syria Regime Change
| Written by Alex Newman |
 The
governments of China and Russia blocked a United Nations Security
Council resolution calling for Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to hand
over power, sparking outrage among Western and Arab leaders supposedly
concerned about a bloody conflict that has already claimed thousands of
lives. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the UN
vetoes by vowing to redouble the Obama administration’s efforts to take
down the regime.The UN resolution in question called on Assad to step down and transfer power to his vice president as the nation moved toward “democracy.” If the regime refused to cooperate, the language threatened Syria with “further measures.” |
TSA Agent Caught Stealing $5,000 from Passenger at JFK Airport
| Written by Michael Tennant |
 Another
day, another sticky-fingered Transportation Security Administration
agent caught stealing from airline passengers: According to the Associated Press,
31-year-old Alexandra Schmid, a TSA screener at New York’s John F.
Kennedy International Airport, allegedly helped herself to a cool $5,000
from a passenger’s jacket as it passed along an X-ray conveyor belt on
February 1. The passenger, a native of Bangladesh, noticed the money was
missing as soon as he retrieved his jacket, at which point he reported
the theft.According to Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and the New Jersey police force, “surveillance video showed Schmid taking the money from a jacket pocket, wrapping the cash in a plastic glove and taking it to a bathroom,” the AP writes. The money has not yet been recovered; Schmid is suspected of having passed it on to someone else in the bathroom. |
The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Was Just A Warm Up Act For The Economic Horror Show That Is Coming
The
people out there that believe that the U.S. economy is experiencing a
permanent recovery and that very bright days are ahead for us should
have their heads examined. Unfortunately, what we are going through
right now is simply just a period of "hopetimism" between two financial
crashes. Things may seem relatively stable right now, but it won't last
long. The truth is that the financial crisis of 2008 was just a warm
up act for the economic horror show that is coming.I Can’t Take It Anymore! When Will the Government Quit Putting Out Fraudulent Employment Statistics?
On Friday, the entire financial world celebrated when it was announced
that the unemployment rate in the United States had fallen to 8.3
percent. That is the lowest it has been since February 2009, and
it came as an unexpected surprise for financial markets that are
hungry for some good news. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
nonfarm payrolls jumped by 243,000 during the month of January.
You can read the full employment report right
here. Based on this news, pundits all over the world were declaring
that the U.S. economy is back. Stocks continued to rise on Friday
and the Dow is hovering near a 4 year high. So does this mean that
our economic problems are over? Of course not. A closer look at
the numbers reveals just how fraudulent these employment statistics
really are. Between December 2011 and January 2012, the number of
Americans "not in the labor force" increased by a whopping 1.2
million. That was the largest increase ever
in that category for a single month. That is how the federal government
is getting the unemployment rate to go down. The government is simply
pretending that huge numbers of unemployed Americans don't want
to be part of the labor force anymore. As you will see below, the
employment situation in America is not improving. Yet everyone in
the mainstream media is dancing around as if the economic
crisis has been cancelled. I can't take it anymore! It is beyond
ridiculous that so many intelligent people continue to buy in to
such fraudulent numbers.
Suppose by Laurence M. Vance
"My
point is, if another country does to us what we do to others, we’re
not going to like it very much. So I would say that maybe we ought
to consider a golden rule – in foreign policy. Don’t do to other
nations what we don’t want to have them do to us"
~ Ron Paul
The war-crazed conservatives in the crowd at one of the Republican presidential debates recently held in South Carolina booed and jeered when Ron Paul called for a golden rule in U.S. foreign policy. "We endlessly bomb these other countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?" added Dr. Paul.
Naturally, the bloodthirsty warmongers at Frontpagemag.com consider Paul’s foreign policy to be absurd, dangerous, and clueless.
The war-crazed conservatives in the crowd at one of the Republican presidential debates recently held in South Carolina booed and jeered when Ron Paul called for a golden rule in U.S. foreign policy. "We endlessly bomb these other countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?" added Dr. Paul.
Naturally, the bloodthirsty warmongers at Frontpagemag.com consider Paul’s foreign policy to be absurd, dangerous, and clueless.
The Path to Peace by Ron Paul
This speech
before the House of Representatives, March 25, 1999, is collected
in A
Foreign Policy of Freedom (2007).
Mr. Speaker,
today I rise with gratitude to Edmund Burke and paraphrase words
he first spoke 224 years ago this week. It is presently true that
to restore liberty and dignity to a nation so great and distracted
as ours is indeed a significant undertaking. For, judging of what
we are by what we ought to be, I have persuaded myself that this
body might accept this reasonable proposition.
The proposition
is peace. Not peace through the medium of war, not peace to be hunted
through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not
peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle,
in all parts of the earth; not peace to depend on juridical determination
of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries
of distant nations. It is simply peace, sought in its natural course
and in its ordinary haunts.
Fed Inflation Goal Is More Politics Than Policy: Evan Schnidman. By Evan A. Schnidman
The Federal Reserve’s decision last
month to set a soft inflation target is the latest in a series
of steps the central bank has taken in recent years to improve
policy transparency. It’s also the most controversial among
economists, and with good reason.
In 2004, Frederic Mishkin, an economics professor at Columbia University who later became a member of the Federal Reserve Board, engaged in a written debate on the issue with Ben Friedman of Harvard University in the journal International Finance. Mishkin based his argument on work he had done with now-Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Their work contends that inflation targeting increases transparency and doesn’t limit policy options for central bankers but rather provides “constrained discretion.”
In 2004, Frederic Mishkin, an economics professor at Columbia University who later became a member of the Federal Reserve Board, engaged in a written debate on the issue with Ben Friedman of Harvard University in the journal International Finance. Mishkin based his argument on work he had done with now-Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Their work contends that inflation targeting increases transparency and doesn’t limit policy options for central bankers but rather provides “constrained discretion.”
John Adams and the Jockeys of Anarchy: David Hackett Fischer
Illustration by Mikey Burton
By
David Hackett Fischer
The idea of liberty, when truly
understood, invites and even obligates us to respect the liberty
of others. Yet, as we so often see, the most exalted virtues in
the world can give rise to practical vices.
One such vice that has often occurred in American history is the habit of some people to claim that their own endowment of liberty gives them a power to diminish or destroy the liberties of others. Among the earliest examples of this were the people in New England’s Puritan colonies who demanded religious liberty for themselves but used it to destroy the religious liberty of others.
One such vice that has often occurred in American history is the habit of some people to claim that their own endowment of liberty gives them a power to diminish or destroy the liberties of others. Among the earliest examples of this were the people in New England’s Puritan colonies who demanded religious liberty for themselves but used it to destroy the religious liberty of others.
U.S. Stocks Fall Amid Greek Debt Talks. By Rita Nazareth
U.S. stocks declined, snapping a
three-day rally for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, amid
concern about Europe’s debt crisis as Greek leaders wrestled
with spending cuts to get aid and avert a default.
Boeing Co. (BA) dropped 1.3 percent as the company ordered inspections of 787 Dreamliners after finding signs of fuselage delamination. Humana Inc. (HUM), the second-largest Medicare provider, slid 3.9 percent after raising its 2012 earnings forecast less than analysts estimated. Micron Technology Inc. slumped 2.7 percent as it named Mark Durcan as its chief executive officer, replacing Steve Appleton, who died on Feb. 3.
Boeing Co. (BA) dropped 1.3 percent as the company ordered inspections of 787 Dreamliners after finding signs of fuselage delamination. Humana Inc. (HUM), the second-largest Medicare provider, slid 3.9 percent after raising its 2012 earnings forecast less than analysts estimated. Micron Technology Inc. slumped 2.7 percent as it named Mark Durcan as its chief executive officer, replacing Steve Appleton, who died on Feb. 3.
Still Club Fed
A CBO report says that on average the compensation paid to federal workers is nearly 50% higher than in the private sector.
By STEPHEN MOORE
Federal workers on balance still receive much better benefits and pay packages than comparable private sector workers, the Congressional Budget Office reports. The report says that on average the compensation paid to federal workers is nearly 50% higher than in the private sector, though even that figure understates the premium paid to federal bureaucrats.Presidential Fathers and Sons
For the seventh consecutive election, the next president will either be a privileged son or a man with no relationship with his biological father.
By MICHAEL MEDVED
Voters this year look set to continue an odd pattern that's prevailed in presidential politics for a quarter century. They will elect either a candidate with a famous father or with no father.The surviving serious contenders—Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—all exemplify one of these two categories. For the seventh consecutive election, the winning candidate will be either a privileged prince with an adored, powerful patriarch, or an up-from-nothing scrapper with no relationship with his biological dad.
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