When I first saw Brian De Palma’s Scarface, a decidedly eighties remake of the classic Howard Hawks gangster movie, I loved it. I was a teenager, the perfect age to see Tony Montana’s dizzying rise in the Miami underworld, followed
Say ‘ello to my leetle fren’: axe confiscated in border rawk-out WASHINGTON – Today’s uncovering of secret multi-agency program for shipping illegal Gibson guitars to Mexican drug cartels left red-faced officials of the U.S. Department of Justice scrambling for an
From the Associated Press: MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) – The death toll climbed as workers continued to pull bodies out of a burned casino in northern Mexico, where gunmen spread gasoline and ignited a fire that trapped and killed at least
Are we ever going to see drug cartels operating in this country the way they do in Mexico? Insight Crime analyzes organized crime in Latin America and offers this interesting analysis of what lies ahead. (Note: Insight Crime is based
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies Mark Krikorian discusses the latest activities along our Southern border. Unlike the metaphorical U.S. “War on Drugs,” Mexico is literally engaged in a military struggle
It was just over two and half years ago that the Obama administration entered the White House under promises of transparency and restoring America’s image abroad. Yet now we know that at the same time they were promising these things,
From the Washington Times: The Obama administration sought to intimidate witnesses into not testifying to Congress on Tuesday about whether ATF knowingly allowed weapons, including assault rifles, to be “walked” into Mexico, the chairman of a House committee investigating the
In a Dec. 3, 2009, article about the announced resignation of Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez wrote that Ogden hasn’t been identified with any major Justice Department policy initiatives. Now that this C-SPAN video
By way of law and order and in an effort to protect its citizenry, the state of Georgia has enacted an anti-illegal immigration law similar to SB 1070 proposed by the state of Arizona. Georgia’s measure seeks to “empower police
To Err is Human..to really screw thing up you need government to take it over -Unknown Conservative Philosopher One of the arguments against government intrusion into every aspect of our lives is that a government can never run a business
The body count in Mexico’s drug wars keeps rising, now approaching 40,000 since President Felipe Calderón took office in late 2006. Growing public anger about that horrific situation leads Mexican officials to look for scapegoats, and a favorite candidate has
Imagine a scenario in which the media outlet most afflicted with Barack Obama Sycophancy Syndrome (BOSS) – the place Chris ‘thrill up my leg’ Matthews calls home – presented a ‘smoking gun’ that could implicate the Obama White House in
Congressman Michael T. McCaul of Texas There is growing concern regarding the security of our US-Mexican border. In 2006 our Homeland Security Committee did a report on the issue. It is available on the web site of Congressman Michael T.
To the casual observer it would seem that Obama administration is at best inept and at worst apathetic when it comes to securing the border, prosecuting the drug cartels, and stemming the flow of illegal immigration. Recently, I reported on
“I don’t think he has arrested the C.I.A.’s slide into becoming an ossified politically correct welfare bureaucracy resembling the Bureau of Labor Statistics. .. It is not the agile outfit that it was at the beginning of the Cold War
One of the pitfalls of conservative media is “me too!”-ism, the idea that taking a successful mainstream concept and blatantly injecting conservative proselytizing into it is a winning strategy. Thankfully, the new cable channel RightNetwork strives to create original content
Now this sounds like an excellent idea. “Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX) has introduced legislation seeking to place six Mexican drug cartels – the Arellano Feliz Organization, Los Zetas, the Beltran Leyva Organization, La Familia Michoacana, the Sinaloa Cartel and the
When you think about a highly aggressive cartel teaming up with politicians to pass protectionist laws that kick entrepreneurs out of work, you probably don’t think about interior designers. But you should. [youtube C_4U3VehaW4&] The American Society of Interior Designers
When you think about a highly aggressive cartel teaming up with politicians to pass protectionist laws that kick entrepreneurs out of work, you probably don’t think about interior designers. But you should. [youtube C_4U3VehaW4&] The American Society of Interior Designers
If a person went on a safari in Africa and the tour guide stated, “when the jackal tries to take the lion’s babies, the lion will kill the jackal” what would most people say? “Duh, really, what else is new?”
South of the Border Jalisco Govenror Emilio Gonzalez is accusing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of collaborating with the drug cartels because they refuse to support a security-bill. He asked members of the State Congress: “What did you receive? Did
For a superb look at what is going on in Mexico, read this article (PDF) in the current issue of Orbis published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Written by David Danelo, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who served for
From the New York Times: Like many of the cables made public in recent weeks, those describing the drug war do not offer large disclosures. Rather, it is the details that add up to a clearer picture of the corrupting
While the Obama administration worries about security issues half way around the world in such places as Afghanistan, Iran, and North Korea, a serious problem is brewing right on our southern border. Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed some 29,000
We’ve all heard the old proverb, “nature abhors a vacuum,” or its variation “power, like nature abhors a vacuum.” With the ascendancy of “conservative media” — i.e. Fox News, Drudge Report and the Big sites — to name just a
In what can be viewed as an alarming and further blurring of the lines between the Mexican government and Mexico’s highly violent drug cartels, Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano, who had been actively (exactly how “actively” is debatable) sought on drug
View of spot, halfway up hill, where we interviewed American Rancher X Previously: American Rancher X, Part 1 “I don’t need you here, stirring up trouble, especially by shooting. The cartels shot at two people on my land last year.
In a stunning front-page editorial the principal Juarez, Mexico newspaper El Diario has called for a truce with the ultra violent Juarez and Sinaloa Mexican drug cartels in wake of the murder of an El Diario photographer and severe wounding
Five years ago when Congress was considering a requirement that nasal decongestants be placed behind the counter to combat their use in methamphetamine production, I was one of many policy analysts who argued against this restriction. I believed it would
Read Part One here. Another reason for the spotty media coverage of the war along our southern border is manpower. Local media simply doesn’t have the resources to investigate and cover all of the stories in their area — even
Has the fog of war descended on the U.S. southern border, obscuring the reporting of news and concealing the truth about what is going on along the Rio Grande and in Arizona and California? Many violent incidents are not widely
Abbot Justin Brown and his fellow monks are being threatened with crippling fines and even jail time. Their crime? Selling caskets. Today, they are fighting back in a big way. [youtube 7NxtGzsGtJc] In 1889, a group of monks from Indiana
On Tuesday, seven bullets believed to have been fired from one or more AK-47s from across the border hit the El Paso City Hall. It was big news in the Texas border town right across the river from Juarez, Mexico,
The apparent absence of grownups in the Administration and in Congress (not just this Administration and not just this Congress) has produced a truly sad, and indeed, scandalous spectacle. History will not treat our current ruling class kindly with respect
Price fixing is illegal in the private sector, but unfortunately there are no rules against schemes by politicians to create oligopolies in order to prop up bad government policy. The latest example comes from the bureaucrats at the International Monetary
I first met David Saucedo last October in Waco, Texas. I was impressed. He was a young Christian construction worker who spent his free time counseling inner city youth. After tough days of framing and pouring concrete, he went door
NBC’s “Law and Order” is in its 20th season. The economy is weak, so they have devolved to converting White House talking points into weekly shows. Last week, “Doped” was a farcical equivalent of “Damien Thorn meets Karen Silkwood.” Pharmaceutical
Before Big X achieved fame, glory and untold wealth as a writer-producer, he spent a decade or so as an executive in the financial industry. So when I read Mr. Weinstein’s comment that “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York, meeting with network television producers about a series they wanted to run about a story my production team and I have been reporting for more than five years: the narco-insurgency
It was a little after midnight when I crossed over the bridge from Laredo, Texas into the sister city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. After having my car searched I was cleared through the Mexican Customs’ check point where the military