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by Jim Kouri, CPP

Two University of South Florida (USF) students have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, for transporting explosives materials without permits, the Department of Justice announced on Friday. 

The two-count indictment unsealed Friday charges Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed, both Egyptian nationals, with transporting explosives in interstate commerce without permits.  The indictment alleges that the two men, “not being licensees” under federal law, “did knowingly transport and cause to be transported in interstate commerce explosive materials” on or about Aug. 4, 2007 in the Middle District of Florida and elsewhere.   
  
Mohamed was also charged with distributing information about building and using an explosive device.  The indictment alleges that Mohamed taught and demonstrated the making and use of an explosive and destructive device, with the intent that such information be used for, and in the furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a federal crime of violence.

Mohamed, a civil engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at USF, and Megahed, an engineering student, were stopped for speeding and subsequently arrested on Aug. 4, 2007 in Goose Creek, SC by a South Carolina Berkeley County Sheriff’s deputy. 

Both Mohamed and Megahed were charged with possession of an explosive device, in violation of South Carolina law.  Bond was set for Mohamed in the amount of $500,000 and for Megahead in the amount of $300,000.  Both men are currently being held in Berkeley County jail.
      
The charges in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.  The charge of distributing information about explosive devices carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and the charge of transporting explosive materials carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

Reginald I. Lloyd, US Attorney for the District of South Carolina, expressed his appreciation for the efforts of the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department and the Ninth Circuit Solicitor’s Office in South Carolina. 

“I am very grateful for the hard work and professionalism of our local law enforcement partners in this important investigation.  The arresting deputy’s vigilance and the immediate response of our local investigators and prosecutors are highly commendable,” he stated.
 
This case is being prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, with the assistance of the National Security Division at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC  The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in both Tampa and South Carolina, with the assistance of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

It's being reported that Idaho Senator Larry Craig might resign either today or before the weekend is out. Definitely not for being gay though.

Detective Noel Nelson, who arrested Craig, certainly seems to know about Congress. From the arrest transcript:

Detective: Okay, sir. We deal with people that lie to us everyday.

Sen. Craig: I'm sure you do.

Detective: I'm sure you do too sir.

I really feel bad… for the detective. How'd you like that job?

"Okay Noel, we've got your assignment for today."

"Oh…"

This just has to be one of those jobs that the "new guy" gets.

I understand the release of the transcript, but I really don't think it was necessary for police to release the surveillance footage. Why the need to further embarrass the senator?

Said the actor:

"I would like my president to have pillow talks with Bill Clinton. I would be very happy with that."

So who is it that Douglas is endorsing? Eleanor Mondale? Belinda Stronach?

Come on, Michael, clear things up and tell us which one of the dozens you're referring to. The suspense is killing us.

…the time of the announcement on when his official announcement will be.

We're getting there. Next is the announcement later today at 4 p.m. concerning when the official announcement will be. Then we'll get to the official announcement next week, barring any other teaser announcements over Labor Day weekend.

NewsMax.com's David Limbaugh writes today:

Newsweek's Anna Quindlen recently wrote that a presidential victory for Rudy Giuliani "wouldn't be a good thing for this country, but his candidacy may wind up being a good thing for his party," which Quindlen obviously believes has been hijacked by the Christian right.

Giuliani's strong poll numbers, said Quindlen, perhaps "indicate that the end is nigh for the stranglehold the Leviticus Lobby has had on the GOP." It's no longer surprising that those screaming most loudly against Christianity and its influence on public policy in America often employ the same tactics and represent the same dangers they falsely attribute to Christians. Christians have far more to fear from the secular thought police than the other way around.

Whether it's writer Christopher Hitchens or CNN's Christiane Amanpour sloppily conflating Christian "fundamentalists" or observant Jews with Islamic jihadists; secular leftists calling the Christian right the American Taliban; or militant secularists like HBO's Bill Maher salivating over reports that Mother Teresa had a crisis of faith, the theme is the same. Christian activists are a societal nuisance.

The secularists' criticism goes beyond decrying the Christian right's alleged hostility to church-state separation. They claim strong religious belief leads to oppression, tyranny, and violence.

They even suggest the mere defense of absolute truth is dangerous. Alan Hurwitz of North Star Writers Group, wrote, "One thing I do know — the pursuit of 'truth,' as in mine over yours, creates conflict and isolation among individuals, groups, and societies. I am secular enough to think those are bad things. Religious zealots, 'knowers of truth . . . often have a scary gleam in their eyes . . . The challenge of dealing with rigid manifestations of religious 'truth' is one of management leadership — how to create societies that allow diverse groups to believe and act on their truth, without hurting each other." Note this is not some Christian talking about creating societies and exerting control.

The secularists demanding the removal of specks from Christians' eyes are oblivious to the planks in their own. Their paranoid predispositions about Christians lead them to the very type of oppressive behavior they wrongly ascribe to Christians. If anyone is guilty of wanting to foreclose debate and impose their values on others, it is these hyperventilating secularists.

They are the ones who have decreed there's a consensus on global warming and attempted to stigmatize dissenters as paid mouthpieces for "evil" energy companies. With their absence of self-reflection it must never occur to them that in their professed monopoly on "science," they squarely violate the fundamentals of the scientific method by forbidding debate and insulating their theories from scientific scrutiny.

They malign intelligent design proponents for daring to subject their dogma — and distortions — to the rigorous re-examination scientific methodology requires.

They seek to remove God from the Pledge of Allegiance, though one poll reveals that only 14 percent of Americans agree with them.

They brand as bigots opponents of the societal sanctioning of homosexual marriage. Some even pronounce certain scriptural passages on homosexuality "hate speech" that leads to violence, as if to disapprove of any behavior is to hate it or its practitioners and leads to violence against them.

Likewise, many pro-abortionists speciously argue that pro-life advocacy leads to violence against women — never mind the violence against the unborn. The secular left condemns traditionalists for "legislating morality" and invading our bedrooms. Their quasi-religious fervor apparently blinds them to their efforts to wield governmental power to impose their own values, whether on homosexual marriage, abortion, wealth redistribution, or socialized medicine.

Alas, none of this should surprise Christians, who surely understand we are reaping the ravaging effects of a secularist, atheistic worldview that has finally become dominant in our postmodern culture and has claimed absolute truth as its casualty.

Liberty Letters agrees; read the full article.

From the "Artists with way too much free time, not to mention porn mags" department comes this:

US Republicans are none too pleased with Brit artist Jonathan Yeo, who's just completed a fetching portrait of George Bush constructed from grumble mag clippings.

The work was unveiled yesterday at London's Lazarides gallery, which explains the motivation behind the thought-provoking piece: "Yeo was commissioned to undertake a portrait of US President George W Bush, but was later told his services were not required. He decided to continue the commission on his own…"

Republicans were outraged by this exercise in distaste, at least until they heard Larry Craig's foot tapping in the next stall.

This "portrait" style would be much more appropriate for a Bill Clinton bust — literally.

In the wake of the shady looking Norman Hsu/Hillary Clinton fundraising story, I just read that the late Leona Helmsley, a loyal New York Democrat ("The Queen of Mean" even gave money to "The King of Malaise" Jimmy Carter), left her dog, Trouble, a trust fund of around $12 million.

Question: At what point will the pooch end up somehow, some way, being a major donor to the Hillary for President campaign? If Trouble were a Chinese Crested, this would be a no-brainer, but she's not, so the answer to that question really depends on what's in the dog's FBI file.

Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who has come back from the dead so much that he has a cameo in Rob Zombie's remake of "Halloween," has essentially endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, and Barack Obama for vice-president.

This should help bring home the remaining 1% of the Hollywood leftist wacko commie-hugging voters who remain undecided:

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election…

…"The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma.

Is anybody here old enough to remember a day when getting a tip from a communist dictator could actually be harmful to your campaign? Now it can help shore up certain voting blocs in America.

This isn't an endorsement persay, but close. Castro wouldn't so advise Hillary if he thought she was going to be a threat to him she's elected — and if he remains on the north side of the grass for the forseeable future. If Fidel isn't dead by January 2009 he might even be looking forward to a night in the Lincoln Bedroom. Hillary still has no word yet on who Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will endorse. Fingers crossed!

The story also quotes Castro as saying that his favorite U.S. president to deal with was Jimmy Carter, but we already knew that. Jimmah still has a ball gag and leather hood he got as a gift from Castro back in '78 which bears the inscription, "Thanks for being my bitch — Fiddy"

Update:

Somebody should send Castro one of these — the Hillary nutcracker. Order yours today:

h/t Kitty

The suits at the CBS Evening News are determined to solve their ratings woes one way or another:

One year after Couric jumped from NBC's "Today" to CBS in a big-money talent deal, the "Evening News" anchor is embarking on a high-risk tour of Iraq and Syria to revive the broadcast…

…The Pentagon has advised CBS News to keep details of Couric's itinerary vague, but she will co-anchor "Evening News" live from both Iraq and Syria next week after several days spent reporting in the field.

CBS News complied with the Pentagon's request to keep Katie's itinerary vague, saying only that "Katie will be staying at the Babylon Hotel, about ten miles from downtown Baghdad on the banks of the Tigris, in room 332."

William F. Buckley once said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phone book than by the 2000 members of the faculty of Harvard University.” No doubt, given what our chattering classes and elites have produced over the past 50 years, most of us would avidly agree with him. Perhaps that is why John Bootie, a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has stepped forward to run as an independent candidate for the Presidency. He describes himself as being an “Ultra Conservative Reaganite” and maintains a website outlining both his mission and his past. Unlike his peers, he is not afraid to take a stance on the issues of the day. In fact, he has even put them forth in writing.

BC: Mr. Bootie, you are running as the ultra conservative Independent candidate in this election. What uniquely do you have to offer the electorate that other Republican candidates do not?

JKB: My biggest claim in this is that I, like our forefathers, have been blessed with a great deal of common sense. In today’s political world that is not a common thing to have. People who do have it often do not have the nerve to use it.

Bernard, as an Independent candidate, I have truly yet to see any other candidate in the two major parties give you or I a clue as to what they wish to do. We hear a lot about what is wrong or what they will do in reply to a specific question, but not one of them has stood up and said I want to do this and said why they do.

I have to run as an independent because the Republican Party has left me sitting on the side of the road. They have already decided on their two or three possible candidates.

What do I have to offer that is different? Well, first off, I offer new and sometimes unpopular ideas. I know just introducing them will be an uphill challenge. I offer to voters a candidate who is not a slave to our self-proclaimed elites. I offer to voters a man who wishes to serve our great nation in the manner of President Reagan and President Lincoln. Those two men were servants to this, the GREATEST nation in the world and they both helped make it what it is today. They did it with daily prayer as well.

I offer to voters a challenging and public minded candidate who will put the moral majority’s wishes ahead of special interest groups and appeasement.

BC: What is your assessment of the Bush Presidency?

JKB: First off, I want to say President Bush restored dignity and class to the office of the President of the United States. Next I believe the nation is better served when we talk positively about this President and all our past Presidents.

I think his tax incentives and his stance on the War with Terrorism has been legitimate and aggressive. I think, on the other hand, Congress has done nothing but try to obstruct and hinder his performance. I believe that some in Congress should be charged with treason for their actions.

I am against his stance on illegal aliens and the amnesty which Congress tried to force upon the American people. I am proud to say that I was on the right side of that issue. I called my representatives and told them to say NO to amnesty. I also blogged against it and encouraged others to get active regarding the secrecy surrounding the Bill.

BC: If you won who would you pick as your Vice President?

JKB: I have had a few names in mind, but, being a small unknown candidate, I have not got feedback from the specific individuals as of yet or even found out if they would be interested in running. Atop my list are Zell Miller (Democrat from Georgia), Condy Rice, Michael Steele (Republican from Maryland), and Roy Moore (former Judge from Alabama).

BC: You are a member of the Teamsters. Is it your opinion that conservative ideas are more accepted among blue collar workers than most of us suspect?

JKB: Bernard, it’s apparent from looking at a political map of red versus blue which shows where the conservatives live and who we are. Also, if you look at the map it tells you that a state can be mostly red but become blue due to one or two cities. It has been my experience that the “US Suspect” crowd are those who believe liberals are the norm (majority) in this country. I disagree. The union rank-and-file is not in sync with their leadership as some would have the nation believe.

BC: How condescending have people been to you due to your having no political history and not being, vocationally, a member of our society’s self-proclaimed elite?

JKB: Truthfully, in the five months I have been running only had one man got offended or upset and he was mostly upset over the present President as are most true liberals. In 2004 you could have ran Mickey Mouse and he would have gotten as many votes as John Kerry did.

I have found that people say they will vote for me and that they are ready for an outsider to become President. I tell them that I don’t want their vote unless they find out who I am first. After five minutes of talking face to face, people love what I have to offer but personality should only be part of what determines their vote. Correct?

BC: Correct.

JKB: Not enough people think about the candidate’s family, his business associates, or his past before deciding who to vote for. Most hardcore party supporters vote for whomever their party nominates. They don’t ask any questions.

BC: Why aren’t there any legitimate—meaning popularly supported—third parties in America?

JKB: That is a great question. Do you want to know the real answer? Even Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity haven’t acknowledged my campaign and aren’t they the ones we hear saying “why isn’t there a truly conservative candidate out there?”

The real answer is that Congress, along with the media as a whole, doesn’t want the system to change. Congress loves the heir apparent. The media loves their ability to sway the vote with media coverage or a lack thereof. They want to be a part of the process no matter what.

Case in point, today the mainstream media focuses most intently on the two or three candidates they want to see win or think have the best chance to win.

It is now 14 months to Election Day and the conventions have yet to take place, so what excuse can the media have for not covering all of the candidates.

Where is the media’s negative coverage of Mrs. Bill Clinton? Why is it taboo to badmouth her? She is not perfect. She has a political past. We should explore this. Today the wives of top Democrats attack her because their men are afraid to tell the truth. That would cause them to be labeled as haters or abusers or misogynists.

If you remember, or go back if you don’t remember, when the election process started the President was the one with the most votes and the VP was the one with the second most votes. Parties didn’t choose a Vice President or say John Doe will be the VP if John Bootie wins. The people choose both people with their votes.

BC: What book or author has most shaped your political beliefs?

JKB: I don’t read anything about politics. I have read books by Glen Beck and Sean Hannity to get perspective on the nation’s ideas about who we are and what we were. I trust in Talk Radio to keep me fair and balanced as they put it (ha ha). I stay well informed and will give my views on any subject.

BC: What political problem do you regard as being most pressing for America at this time?

JKB: My first six months would be filled with the normal stuff like cabinet appointments and what not. But the War on Terror and illegal immigration are most pressing to me. I will push to keep the tax incentives alive.

I will be aggressive about ending frivolous laws suits. I will ask for legislation which makes it harder to file them and to get a judge to listen to them. Should a suit have no merit or be untruthfully filed then I will ask for the plaintiffs to pay the defendant’s costs.

I also want to see an overhaul of the Protection from Abuse laws in this country. As it is today no defendant has rights or a chance to speak or respond to accusations for many weeks. They should be able to tell their side of the story at once. I want to see a Protection from Abuse or a temporary Protection from Abuse barred from being issued unless there is a clear life threatening danger or until the defendant has a chance to tell their own side of the story.

Also, in my first day in office, I will sign a Presidential Pardon for the border agents currently in prison. The two of them have been wrongfully charged. We can’t ask men and women to do dangerous jobs and assume no one will ever be hurt.

Thank you, Bernard for the great questions and the chance to get to know you.

BC: Thank you, sir. And good luck!

Bernard Chapin is the author of Escape from Gangsta Island and the soon-to-be released Women: Theory and Practice (October 2007). He can be contacted at veritaseducation@gmail.com.

Six members of the Paw family, who live in this San Francisco house near the airport…

…have donated $45,000 to Hillary Clinton and $200,000 to Democrat candidates since 2005. The head of the house is a mail carrier and owns a gift shop.

Oh, and a wealthy New York businessman once listed the above abode as his home address even though it isn't clear if he ever actually lived there.

Hmm.

"Nothing to see here… please disperse! Nothing to see here!"

by Jim Kouri, CPP

Three US national strategies, developed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, directed US law enforcement agencies to focus on the prevention of terrorist attacks. The strategies called for agencies to intensify their efforts to help foreign nations identify, disrupt, and prosecute terrorists.

Following the 9/11 attacks, the President issued a series of strategies that provided broad direction for overseas law enforcement efforts to assist foreign nations to identify, disrupt, and prosecute terrorists.

However, these strategies did not articulate which LEAs should implement the guidance to enhance efforts to help foreign nations combat terrorism or how they should do so. While one of the strategies tasked State Department staff with developing and coordinating US efforts to combat terrorism abroad, the feds found State did not develop or coordinate the development of a plan to use the combined capabilities of US LEAs to help foreign nations identify, disrupt, or prosecute terrorists.

In December 2004, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which charged the National Counterterrorism Center with developing a plan to use all elements of national power, including LEAs, to combat terrorism.

NCTC officials told analysts that they had drafted a general plan, which was approved by the President in June of 2006. According to NCTC, State Department, Justice Department, and Department of Homeland Security officials, implementing guidance for the plan is under development, and they would not discuss the contents of the plan or the guidance.

Some LEAs have increased efforts to help foreign nations identify, disrupt, and prosecute terrorists. For example, DHS has implemented its Container Security Initiative to screen US-bound cargo at foreign ports, and the Department of State has expanded its Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA) program.

However, analysts found that because most LEAs, with the exception of the FBI, have not been given clear guidance, they lacked clearly defined roles and responsibilities on helping foreign nations identify, disrupt, and prosecute terrorists.

In one country terrorism analysts visited, the lack of clear roles and responsibilities between two US LEAs may have compromised several joint operations intended to identify and disrupt potential terrorist activities, according to the US and foreign nation LEAs.

In addition, the Government Accountability Office found LEAs generally lacked guidance on using resources to assist foreign nations in addressing terrorist vulnerabilities and generally lacked performance monitoring systems and formal structures for sharing information and collaborating. They also found that, because comprehensive needs assessments were not conducted, LEAs may not be tailoring their full range of training and assistance to address key terrorism vulnerabilities in foreign countries.

Sources: American Federation of Police, National Association of Chiefs of Police, US Government Accountability Office, US Department of State, US Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

Gun Owners Without Borders is a proposal for a new international human rights organization.

Gun Owners Without Borders recognizes a bond between individual human beings whose right to live is challenged by their governments or other forces.

Gun Owners Without Borders supports an inalienable right of people to resist any attempts to exterminate them, regardless of the source or justification for the attempted extermination.

Current United Nations policies do not prevent genocide and democide, because a nation’s sovereignty logically comes first. Internal policies are a nation’s own business. This holds true whether the rulers are elected, appointed, inherited or in charge through force of arms.

Gun Owners Without Borders recognizes that this is perfectly understandable and a normal state of affairs under the nation-state system.

Communist China, for example, could shoot its citizens who are drug addicts, or for political reasons, or to harvest organs or to turn babies over for adoption (and they do). The U.N. and others might object, or not, but it’s not within their realm to stop such abuse. Nor could they, as a practical matter, if they were of a mind to.

Gun Owners Without Borders therefore understands it falls only to individual persons to defend their own right to their own lives if they can, even if such defense would be viewed as illegal or criminal acts by the ruling parties. Under the doctrine of state sovereignty, anyone who shoots back at an agent of the government is by definition typically an “outlaw.”

Wherever people are oppressed or their lives placed in danger from government, powerful economic interests, criminals, zealots, tyrants, the criminally insane or others, Gun Owners Without Borders recognizes the right such people have to live, regardless of the U.N. or any other authority’s failure to act, refusal to act, or inability to act.

Gun Owners Without Borders calls upon Amnesty International, Journalists Without Borders, Doctors Without Borders and all borderless groups to recognize individual people’s right to live, despite government edicts to the contrary.

Arming people under such circumstances is seen by Gun Owners Without Borders as moral and just, even though the rulers taking such people’s lives would view it as criminal activity. Such is the paradox of life on Earth.

From pestholes of poverty in deepest Africa to reprisals facing innocent women ruled by Muslim men, from remote hills in Communist China to the depths of the American South, from tyrannical conditions in Kazakhstan to ruthless policies in sophisticated France, all people have the same inherent, inalienable right to live and personally protect their lives from whatever unjust threats they face.

The fact that the Founders of the United States saw fit to recognize these rights and to embody guarantees of such protection in the famous and feared Second Amendment of the U.S. Bill of Rights makes it no less valid to people living in any populous or remote corner of the globe.

If government derives its just power to govern from consent of the people governed, then those people must also be free to choose to defend their lives from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

It is recognition of the fundamental right to live that is embraced by Gun Owners Without Borders, and is championed as a just, legitimate, reasonable and common sense right for all of humanity.

For more on the politics of disarming civilians in the false name of justice, click here.

Thomas Jefferson, quoting Beccaria:

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

The lamestream media told you:

Dangerous gun-toting Minuteman vigilantes [picture of handgun in belt holster] are threatening people on our borders (2004); little news since then, almost none in 2007.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has just released these results for volunteer border watches for illegal-alien activities:

30,000: Border sightings since program began (rounded to nearest thousand).

13,534: Intruder apprehensions from 26 countries confirmed by Border Patrol [equals 2.2 sightings per apprehension, the same rate of capture BP claims]; note that Border Patrol’s official figures exceed one million captures annually for the past five years, suggesting at least one million successful illegal entries annually, yet “news” reports claim 12 million illegals are in U.S., with no change since at least 2002, which would be, what’s the word, impossible.]

310: People rescued from dying in the desert, [no comment from ACLU].

750: Total watch-days during five 30-day operations in five states.

966: Total days of Minutemen on watch at the border.

100: Local chapters created in 50 states.

Plus: Minutemen on rolling watch in local communities 365 days a year 24×7

Plus: Federal amnesty legislation in Washington, D.C. defeated

And: Leading the charge — singlehandedly made the illegal alien invasion and border insecurity a national issue.

Read the eyewitness report on what this program is really about — nothing like what the “news” reports (be sure to check out the photos).

Another day, another apology:

The U.S. military in Afghanistan on Monday expressed regret for a publicity campaign aimed at winning hearts and minds that ended up offending scores of Muslims. U.S. troops on Friday dropped dozens of free footballs for soccer-mad Afghan children from helicopters in an area of southeastern Afghanistan, all marked with flags of various countries.

But the balls depicted the Saudi Arabian flag, which features the Islamic declaration of faith and includes the names of Allah and the prophet Mohammed.

The idea of kicking something bearing their names is considered deeply offensive to Muslims.

No word yet on what was contained in the "expression of regret" from the U.S. military that will be found deeply offensive, but I'm sure there's something in there.

Has anybody ever apologized for all the terrorist attacks? I'm just wondering. Nah, that's okay, first let's take care of the soccer ball thing. First things first.

From the "Things I learned today" file:

Illinois Republican Senator Larry Craig taught me never to tap my foot while in a men's room stall at an airport. Why? Because, well, somebody like Illinois Senator Larry Craig might be in the next stall.

I don't really need to worry about this, as my feet don't even touch the ground while perched atop the 4-foot stack of toilet paper piled on the seat, but this is good information to have nonetheless. You can learn a lot from a politician.

Just last year, a blog "outed" Craig, which he denied. Technically though, if you're in a stall, you're not "out" — this nuance will I'm sure be included in the Senator's press release in the morning.

The lamestream media told you:

The NICS expansion bill will simply add the names of the mentally incompetent to the “NICS” list of people who are not qualified to have guns. “These people are already banned from gun ownership by law, which is a good thing,” commented the commentator.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The accuracy of the list of 21 million people Congress may soon add to the NICS list is unknown, controversial and being ignored by power brokers pushing for quick adoption of this dubious bill.

The unintended consequences of the bill are just coming to light. People have expressed concern, ignored in the lamestream media and Congress that:

People might avoid seeking medical attention if it means they might lose their rights;

Prior legal acts, medications, treatments and therapies might lead to inclusion in the NICS list without notice;

Inclusion in the NICS database might in the future justify a loss of employment, security clearance, passport access, voting rights, teaching license and more;

A person unknowingly added to the list might be committing a felony by applying for a gun at retail, with no practical mechanism for advice or redress;

Federal prosecutors in Project Safe Neighborhoods (formerly Project Exile) may be poised to prosecute “crimes” like a denied attempt to purchase firearms at retail;

The idea of the mental health community issuing gun passes to people it formerly categorized as unfit would seem like a joke if it wasn’t so serious; and

As reported here earlier, the remedies some lobbyists seem so hopeful about strike the Uninvited Ombudsman as window dressing that will not see the light of day, if the authorities in charge have anything to do with it, aside from the fact that the whole scheme rests on a process that has been dead for 15 years because it hasn’t been funded since 1992.

The lamestream media told you:

The mayor of Washington, D.C. has hired an expensive law firm at taxpayer expense to fight against residents who seek to regain their right to keep and bear arms. That right is being challenged in the “Parker” case and may go to the Supreme Court.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Activists should be aware that as the “Parker” case heads to appeal at the Supreme Court, it may no longer be the “Parker” case. The pleading for certiorari will be titled “District of Columbia v. Heller” another of the original plaintiffs.

Asked why the change was made, an insider with knowledge of the case suggests, “D.C. has switched to Heller probably because Parker is an African-American female and Heller is a less sympathetic figure as a white male. Our side will probably keep the name Parker when responding to the D.C. cert petition, and ultimately, it’ll be up to the Supremes.”

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, D.C.’s hired guns in this gun case, is using the collection of founding documents compiled on ConSource, the first comprehensive online collection of Constitution-related source materials. Their research will present the District’s position that their handgun ban withstands Constitutional scrutiny, and that you have no rights. These documents will play an important role in seeking to overturn the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit holding that the District’s law, banning gun possession even at home, violates the Second Amendment.

ConSource is currently in beta test, but is accessible by special request.

My column today at WorldNetDaily is on some comments that Hillary Clinton made recently pertaining to how another terrorist attack would actually help Republicans in the upcoming election.

The implications are many, and I conclude that pretty much all of them lead to the fact that Hillary believes her voters are brain-dead morons and treats them as such. It's not a good way to go about winning an election — unless of course it's actually true.

Give a read to "Stupid is as stupid votes" for more.

The nasty storms in the midwest these past few days? (Say it with me…) "Bush's fault!" — this according to Laurie David.

I'd swear there were plenty of horrific natural disasters before Bush, Reagan and even Nixon, but I must be mistaken.

As for man-made global warming, is there anything more pathetic than a rich Hollywood free-timer trying to pin the cause of phenomena that has been occurring for thousands of years on human behaviors that are mere decades old? This reminds me a 30-year-old man struggling to attribute his existence to his parents having sex four days ago. Pardon my skepticism.

It was a cloudy, muggy, but fairly mild day today in the San Fernando Valley, as remnants of a recent Caribbean hurricane worked their way into Southern California. At the crack of dawn I awoke to get to the Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks Park and lay claim to the prime area of real estate that Fathers 4 Justice and the National Coalition of Free Men, L.A. would inhabit for the next 8 hours.In the “cooler” morning hours, I began setting up tents, tables and chairs for our invited guests, as well as people who’d drop in from driving by, or just being in the park. After a couple of hours of work, the entire set up was ready for guests, and I was ready for a break. I stretched out in the reclining lawn chair I’d brought and relaxed as the tree squirrels frolicked about, scrounging for food abandoned by yesterday’s picnickers.As I kicked back, I was really enjoying myself, watching the reactions of motorists passing by. People would stop at the intersection, then crane their necks to read our signs, while waiting for the light to change. It would be no exaggeration to say that, during the course of the day, scores of people read our signs (at length), and hundreds of people got briefer views. I recall one woman, stopped at the light, who had her neck turned about 135 degrees and was staring intently at the “CAN YOU GET BACK MY DADDY” sign. She had an expression of real concern on her face. “Penny for your thoughts,” I said silently to myself as I averted my eyes to allow her all the looking her heart desired. In all honesty, her reaction was far from unusual. A car horn blared and got my attention. As I looked in the direction of the sound, a male driver gave a big “thumbs up” and nodded.  He had a rather serous look on his face. “He gets it,” I thought to myself.

Question for Miss Teen South Carolina: "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?"

A video of the answer is here, but somebody was brave enough to venture to transcribe it as well:

"I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh…people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and…I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our…"

It's safe to assume that Miss Teen South Carolina can't find the U.S. on a world map.

The lamestream media told you:

A new survey indicates the British BBC state-run news network, long thought to be an unbiased source of news, has a slightly left (socialist) tilt.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

BBC reporter Antony Jay, commenting on his early idealistic days with the BBC, notes, “we were antiindustry, anticapitalism, antiadvertising, antiselling, antiprofit, antipatriotism, antimonarchy, antiempire, antipolice, antiarmed forces, antibomb, antiauthority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place — you name it, we were anti it.”

The lamestream media told you:

More people are buying “carbon offsets” to undo the “carbon footprint” of their activities, like wedding parties, air conditioning and movie production. The popular new “offsets” will help save the planet. Go out and buy some today!

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Science behind “carbon offsets” does not exist, and a quick survey of websites selling undefined but expensive “offsets” look suspiciously like snake oil sales. Movie producers and Al Gore have announced multiple purchases of the new “product.”

Experts agree it might attract great attention and become a resource for people in all sorts of endeavor, if a foundation, or website, or whatever, actually provided meaningful calculations on carbon footprints. The Uninvited Ombudsman has noticed that current “news” relies on adjectives instead of numbers or measurement.

Such as: How many trees remove how many car exhausts over what time frame; how much CO2 daily sunlight releases from the ocean (the largest source of atmospheric CO2 by far) with a bar graph showing variable solar output which changes daily; how much CO2 a non-driver releases daily by breathing or while exercising at a health club; global CO2 output by people sleeping nightly; how much petroleum is consumed in planting, fertilizing, tending, harvesting, processing and delivering the meal you had for lunch, or that peach from Peru.

Colombia Journalism Review is currently debating whether greenies are right that numerous small farms and people traveling there would consume less energy that huge farms with well-placed supermarkets, but no one knows.

Lamestream news outlets have adopted footprint-offset speak as part of their environmental beat, with no sign of critical thought evident.

I have been doing interviews with conservative figures for four-and-a-half years. It has been very enjoyable and enlightening both for me and my readers. I believe my interest in this activity stems from the fact that I used to ask everyone a million questions as a kid. I suppose that conducting interviews is a pro-social means by which I have extended this annoying habit into adulthood.

At any rate, I am a libertarian-conservative so I principally ask questions of my fellow conservatives. This is due to my obvious sympathy towards their work along with the fact that most leftists will not have a serious conversation with me (that is, those leftists who have ever heard of me, and they are, assuredly, a minority).

Recently, I was fortunate enough to interview two of the more important intellectuals of our day, Victor Davis Hanson and Dinesh D’Souza. After the D’Souza piece was published, Dr. Hanson contacted me to clarify that he did not write a blurb for D’Souza’s book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. I immediately deleted the sentence from the blogs I control such as those at Mensnewdaily.com, Red State.com, and GOP Nation.com. I also contacted Mr. Martinovich at Enter Stage Right.com who deleted the sentence right away. Unfortunately, a few online references to this sentence remained as I apparently did not contact everyone regarding its deletion.

I emailed Mr. D’Souza and he agreed with Dr. Hanson that no blurb was penned for The Enemy at Home. Mr. D’Souza was referencing a blurb that Dr. Hanson wrote concerning an earlier book called What’s So Great About America. If one goes to the google book search page for What’s So Great About America and scrolls down to the bottom they will see the blurb on display upon the back cover.

I assumed that Mr. D’Souza was referring to his most recent book and not the one from 2002. This was entirely my mistake and not Mr. D’Souza’s. I neglected to clarify his statement. I made a misassumption and should have asked him to what publication he was referring. I take full responsibility for the mistake and apologize to my readers.

I realize that there has been tremendous controversy surrounding The Enemy at Home, but, due to my ardent belief that the left has us outgunned and outnumbered, I tend not to take internecine conservative conflicts very seriously. I guess I have always been a “no enemies on the right” type of guy [admittedly though, I did castigate Ben Shapiro for his Porn Nation]. Therefore, I am a little naïve in regards to conflicts among my own people. I am afraid my disinterest worked against me on this occasion.

The reason I make mention of this at this time is that The Powerline Blog picked up on this story yesterday and published an entry called “D’Souza Makes it Up.” I know that Powerline is an extremely well-regarded and quite popular website. I see that Hugh Hewitt dubbed it, “the most influential blog, not just in America, but because it was so in America, also on the globe, both in terms of impact on the craft of journalism and on the course of actual events.”

Therefore, due to its high level of popularity, it is essential for me to accept responsibility for this mistake. Again, I was in error and should have asked for clarification. I apologize to Victor Davis Hanson, Dinesh D’Souza, and my readers.

A couple of days ago, Hillary Clinton was in Concord, New Hampshire and said the following:

"It's a horrible prospect to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world."

The natural instinct of the Republican of course is to zero in on the fact that Hillary is virtually admitting that a populace frightened by terrorist attacks will feel safer with a Republican rather than a Democrat at the helm. This is very tempting, mostly because it's true — and whenever I hear Hillary telling the truth, I can do nothing but wonder what's up.

Hillary was apparently willing to give up the aforementioned truthful and revealing tidbit in order to get to what I'm guessing was the reason she said that in the first place: to imply that Republicans would be happy if there was another terrorist attack — or even somehow might allow an attack to win an election.

The Rodham approach to terrorism is not unlike the global warming alarmists approach to the level of salt in sea water: If it goes up, it's caused by global warming — and if it goes down, it's caused by global warming.

If there's another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Hillary's implication will be that it was either due to Bush incompetence, or, worse yet, it was allowed to happen so as to put another Republican in office.

If there's not another terrorist attack on U.S. soil before the '08 election, Hillary's implication will be that the threat was wildly over-stated by Bush and the Republicans in order to scare people into voting Republican while allowing them the means to violate our rights via wiretaps, etc.

The common denominator of all of the above Hillary scenarios is that, in order to perpetuate, they require most voters to be brain-dead.

If it's common knowledge that Bush mishandled post 9/11 America, what kind of idiot would vote Republican because there was another attack? According to Hillary, plenty.

If an attack was allowed to happen, what moron would vote for the party that allowed it to happen? Lots, sayeth Queen Carpetbagger.

If the threat was over-stated for political purposes, what dope would vote for that party again so as to perpetuate this abuse of power? A whole lot of them, says Rodham-Clinton.

Here's the conundrum though: to believe all of Hillary's implications requires a certain — I'll try to put it politely — lack of intellectual ability to deal in logic and reality. The types of statements outlined above make it obvious that these are the people whose votes Hillary is wooing, while at the same time claiming that these voters are the reason Republicans would welcome another terrorist attack. Stand back as the house of cards tumbles.

Hillary already has the brain-dead bloc shored up, so I really can't figure out why she's wasting her time with all these silly games anyway.

The sad truth is that Hillary Clinton and her ilk adore unknowing voters — and not because these voters wet themselves in fear and instinctively vote Republican whenever a car backfires. The fact that the Hillarys of the world want to be in charge of our kids' schools should give us a Maalox moment of pause. Those who expect our children to get a good education from people who feed on the votes of the ill-informed have unfortunately already themselves been victimized.

If you do the math, you can see why Hillary shouldn't be in charge. And if you can't do the math, Hillary just might have earned another voter — terrorist attack or not.

"You're becoming sleeeeepy… and stuuuupid…"

The lamestream media told you:

Six miners remain trapped in a coal mine in Utah. Here with continuing coverage is our man on the scene.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Although “news” editors everywhere presumed viewers were entranced by the incessant non-news of people milling around 1,900 feet away from where the unfortunate miners were trapped, actual viewers were revolted and bored by the endless day-after-day coverage of nothing new to report. All Americans were saddened by the loss, when the collapse occurred.

An unscientific survey that Page Nine readers are encouraged to conduct involves asking the next six people you meet if they remained glued to their TV sets to follow the coal mine cave in, or if they have a life. Several studies already conducted indicated most people have a life, and the primary viewers of the Utah non-events were in TV-station control rooms.

At least, the coal mine edged the news-media helicopter crash off the air, though Nancy Grace did bring back live coverage of Anna Nicole Smith, who is dead.

Meanwhile, while the six victims were getting countless hours of prime TV and newspaper space, tons of real news was disregarded, hundreds of people dying from serious threats you face daily was omitted, and the truth about political candidates was avoided.

Where editors get their values from, or how they make their coverage decisions remains a mystery.

The lamestream media told you:

Jesse Jackson, in his honorable and endless quest for social justice and fairness, is staging a gun-store protest in 25 cities on August 28. People everywhere may finally be free of criminal violence and injustice thanks to the noble actions of this honorable defender of freedom, on the same day Martin Luther King also did something great.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Media darling Jesse Jackson, one of the nation’s most outspoken racists and promoters of social division, plans a coordinated attack on the Bill of Rights and gun owners across America on Aug. 28. Jackson will be leaching off the day Martin Luther King marched on Washington.

In response, Jeff Knox of the Firearms Coalition has declared Aug. 28 “National Exercise Your Rights Day” to counter Jackson’s call for an anti-rights sideshow. Knox is asking supporters of the Second Amendment to purchase a firearm or ammunition on that day. Tell your friends, and your friendly local dealers and ranges. “It’s the perfect day to take a newcomer to the range,” says the Uninvited Ombudsman. Read Jeff’s excellent column.

Although Jackson’s plans for an anti-rights event have received widespread coverage, Knox’s plans for a pro-rights event have been largely ignored. Coverage on the day of the event is expected to follow similar editorial guidelines.

“It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”

?Malcolm X (1964)

by Jim Kouri, CPP

Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty recently endorsed fellow Law & Order star Fred Thompson for President of the United States.

During a telephone conversation with this writer, Moriarty said:

“Whoever does occupy the White House will not overturn Roe v. Wade, nor will he or she put the dictatorial Supreme Court in its place.

“However, I will personally vote for Mr. Fred Thompson and help his campaign as best I can, but I don’t believe his entrance into this campaign ever carried enough pro-life commitment to do the job that has to be done. In addition, since the Republican Party has been so corrupted by the Nixon/Kissinger years, such corruption is too profound for one Republican as President to overcome.

“Contained in the human rights paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, the one beginning ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ are the very essential ingredients to the meaning of America. Anything that veers or attempts to deny the self-evident truths contained therein is to my mind un-American. Therefore the Clinton Democrats, better known as Progressives, and the Giuliani Republicans, Progressives incognito, both have, to my mind, become profoundly disloyal to the meaning of their own birthplace.

“As a Declarationist, I declare unequivocally that all men are created equal. They are not gestated as possible candidates for abortion. They are no more eligible for abortion than African Americans are automatically eligible for slavery.

“The fundamental rights contained in that human rights paragraph are ‘inalienable.’ Nothing a Progressive Clintonite can say or do will ever re-write the human rights paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. No dance that Rudolph Giuliani may want to perform around his ’strict constructionist’ alibi for not really being pro-abortion, none of his high stepping can re-write his proven record as a pro-abortionist.”

To interview actor Michael Moriarty, call or write to Jim Kouri at copmagazine@aol.com or (201) 941-5397.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

The lamestream media told you:

Democratic presidential contenders participated in a candidate’s forum for the gay community, with musician Melissa Etheridge showing superb skills as an interviewer, asking tough questions and making candidates squirm.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

If a tiny, marginal, but loud “community” like gay people can force a presidential debate for their concerns, it is clearly time for the gun-owning community to demand a candidate debate for the 95 million Americans who own guns and are concerned about mounting challenges to their rights under the Bill of Rights.

Unlike recently invented “gay-rights” demands, which among other things reversed long-standing jail terms for sodomy, the right to keep and bear arms is specifically recognized in the Bill of Rights, and has existed since before the nation was founded.

Lamestream “news” headlines for a proposed gun-rights debate are easy to predict. “No Candidates Show Up For Gun Rights Debate.”

A top Democrat strategist pointed out that, “All our candidates are supporters of the Second Amendment as long as assault weapons aren’t included, so there’s no point in holding a debate on what the voters already know.”

The Uninvited Ombudsman points out, again, that assault is a kind of behavior, not a kind of hardware, and that any gun pointed at you is an assault, a serious felony crime, and punishable with heavy prison sentences.

How the tiny gay community can accomplish what the gigantic and feared powerful gun lobby cannot was unexplained at press time, and challenges the belief that the gun lobby is all that powerful, especially compared to gays.