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February 17, 2015 — John Hinderaker

Federal Judge Enjoins Implementation of Obama’s Executive Amnesty

Featured image Yesterday, Judge Andrew Hanen, a federal district court judge in Texas, granted a motion by Texas and 25 other states for a preliminary injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (“DAPA”) program that was announced by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. The opinion is 123 pages long, and is, in my view, well-reasoned and persuasive. Several points should be made »
December 19, 2013 — John Hinderaker

Federal Court: Obama’s Partnership With Mexican Drug Cartels Goes Far Beyond Guns

Featured image Last Friday, an opinion by Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen opened a window onto the sheer lawlessness of the Obama administration–in particular, the Department of Homeland Security. The case was United States of America v. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez. You can download the opinion here. Judge Hanen is located in the Southern District of Texas, Brownsville Division, and the Nava-Martinez case involved smuggling a child from El Salvador into the United »
December 8, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff

Demography and Obama’s Iran bailout

Featured image Deprived of their right to vote for other than state approved candidates, the people of Iran appear to be voting, in one way or another, with their sex organs. Thus, Michael Rubin reports that Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei is complaining about low birth rates: This lack of interest in bearing children is a malady. Otherwise, one naturally likes to have children. Why do a number of people prefer to »
July 17, 2009 — Paul Mirengoff

An important day in Iran

There will be no regime change in Iran unless (a) protests continue in the face of the recent repression and (b) the regime fractures. Today brought evidence that both of these conditions (which are necessary but perhaps not sufficient) may be fulfilled. First, protests broke out in Tehran. Second, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran’s former president and a key figure in the regime, criticized the government and called for the »
August 18, 2005 — Scott Johnson

Time to bring back the dog

Minneapolis is a city that is in the grip of a sick political culture and deficient municipal leadership. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has governed Minneapolis from top to bottom for twenty-five years and brought the city to the brink of a public safety crisis. Key players seem to think it in their interest to deny the existence of a crisis, or to leave it unmentioned. Among these key players are the »
December 28, 2004 — Scott Johnson

The police chief’s new clothes

RealClearPolitics has posted an entertaining year-end column by Russ Smith lamenting the disappearance of the brief journalistic moratorium on nastiness that used to be the custom of the season: “Enough with the bitching.” According to Smith, the period between December 15 and January 5, like the rest of the year year, has now become one of “all bile, all the time, fair, unfair, balanced and not really fit to print.” »
June 30, 2004 — Scott Johnson

Al Qaeda in Minneapolis: The mission

Last weekend we posted Saturday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune story on al Qaeda’s man in Minneapolis. On Sunday we also noted the Boston Globe’s related story on al Qaeda’s man in Boston. Today the Star Tribune follows up with “Minneapolis terror suspect licensed to haul hazardous freight.” The information reported by the Star Tribune appears to be derived primarily from a government affidavit filed in connection with Elzahabi’s indictment. Greg Gordon »
June 26, 2004 — Scott Johnson

Al Qaeda in Minneapolis

This morning’s Star Tribune reports that “Area man charged in terror case.” Because the Star Tribune makes the story inaccessbile after 14 days, I’m pasting in the story by Star Tribune reporters David Chanen and Greg Gordon below: A Lebanese national who allegedly told Minneapolis FBI agents he trained with Al-Qaida and knew three of its leaders, including one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq, has been charged in »
February 20, 2003 — Scott Johnson

More on the murder in Minneapolis

I just spoke with reporter David Chanen regarding his story in this morning’s Star Tribune on the apprehension of two suspects in the murder of Eric Pearson. I called to ask if he had any additional information on the gang affiliation of the three defendants charged with Pearson’s murder. Dave advises me that, according to the Minnesota Gang Strike Force, both Cross and Hayes are known gang members (Crips). You »