Tag: Politics
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Meet Daniela.
With a grade point average of 6.7, she is North Miami Senior High School’s valedictorian. Her older brother served in the U.S. Army for two years, including a tour in Afghanistan. Then he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He served this country before it was his country. Daniela wants to be a heart…
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FBI training includes anti-Islam indoctrination
From Wired, here’s what the FBI teaches its counterterrorism agents about the average Muslim: The stated purpose of one [briefing], about allegedly religious-sanctioned lying, is to “identify the elements of verbal deception in Islam and their impacts on Law Enforcement.” Not “terrorism.” Not even “Islamist extremism.” Islam. Pretty un-American indoctrination in a federal agency whose motto is, “Fidelity,…
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George W. Bush pulled out of an appearance in Denver scheduled for tomorrow upon learning that WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange had been invited to appear at the same conference via video. I wonder if this policy would apply to those who ran his torture program. Or those who ran his program of extraconstitutional kidnappings. Or…