One day after setting off a stampede of criticism, covered earlier today on the Hayride, over its heavy-handed efforts to bull-rush a pair of travel bloggers into finking a whistleblower which had leaked its Dec. 25 security directive, the Transportation... (Continue reading)
With the end of a year in which America made virtually no progress on any geopolitical front comes a host of revelations signifying that 2010 might be no better. Specifically… 1. The administration has apparently released Qais Qazali, the head... (Continue reading)
As one of 238 members of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee, I have a particular interest in the operation of the Republican Party — and a very small influence on that operation. Since his election as RNC Chairman, Michael... (Continue reading)
The United States government might not have been able to connect the dots and identify Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a security threat to international air travel in time to keep him from bringing a bomb on a Christmas Day Northwest... (Continue reading)
…in my post yesterday on air travel security. A lot better. An excerpt: Start with this: Right now, airport security personnel spend most of their time and energy searching for weapons – not just bombs and guns but Swiss Army... (Continue reading)
The Washington Times is running a piece now asking readers to write out the headlines they’d like to see in 2010 – which is a terrific topic for an open thread here at the Hayride. Just to get things started,... (Continue reading)
…and it’s not a particularly favorable one. Today’s New York Daily News, which as a center-left paper is a reasonable representation of the non-propagandist Old Media, skewers the president for his rather anesthetic and torpid response to the attempted Christmas... (Continue reading)
“Perhaps Western countries should stop treating Ahmadinejad’s government as the legitimate government of Iran.” - expatriate Iranian Ayatollah Mohsen Kadivar... (Continue reading)
So we decided to let Abdulmutallab lawyer up, and not talk to us, huh? Cool. So what if he initially said that there were 25 others just like him training in Yemen to blow us up? So what if there... (Continue reading)