Nearly a year after a SWAT team murdered former Marine Jose Guerena during an illegal raid on his Tucson home, three of the victim’s relatives have been arrested on drug-related charges — and this time, the Pima County Sheriff’s Office left SWAT hardware at the office. The Arizona Star reports that Pauline Guerena — who [...]

The Obama administration can obtain “legal” authority for a military strike on Syria from the UN or NATO, and no congressional authorization is necessary, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta insisted during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. “When it comes to the kind of military action where we want to build a coalition with our [...]

Organizers of the sixth annual “Border Security Expo” underway in Phoenix  have a very simple pitch for police state profiteers: “The U.S. Senate has passed a $4 billion increase in Homeland Security spending focused on gaining control over the U.S. border with Mexico — are you securing your share of this market?” Although packaged as [...]

As if to demonstrate that Godwin’s Law doesn’t apply to Israeli Prime Ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu invoked Auschwitz  in his March 6 address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), asserting the moral authority to wage preventive war on Iran – while broadly intimating that opponents of such aggression are akin to those who abetted [...]

People of the statist persuasion eagerly embrace natural disasters – such as the horrific tornadoes that have battered the Midwest – as an opportunity to tutor the rest of us about the supposedly indispensable role of government entities like FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) as Savior and Provider. This inclination led CNN’s Candy Crowley to [...]

President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, which was released by the White House last April, is most likely a forgery, according to a “cold case posse” organized by  Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County. During a lengthy March 1 press conference, Arpaio insisted that there is “probable cause” to believe that both the birth certificate [...]