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GOP Senatorial Candidate Calls Lib Opponent “Pond Scum” Being Compared to Osama Bin Laden (Video)

Gomez is Not backing down– Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called opponent Rep. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) “pond scum” during an interview on Thursday. This was after his opponent Ed Markey compared Gomez, a former Navy SEAL, to Osama … Continue reading ?

Mass. Senate race scrapes the bottom of the pond

(CNN) – The U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts took a nasty turn this week when the Republican candidate equated his Democratic rival to "pond scum" for a web video that pictured him on screen with Osama bin Laden. Saying he couldn't think of anything more offensive, Gabriel Gomez told a reporter he was worried his […]

Top Senate Republicans Want To Keep Playing Into Al Qaeda’s Strategy

Back in 2004, in a video addressed to the American people, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden described his “bleed until bankruptcy” strategy. “All that we have to do is to send two Mujahedin to the farthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaeda in order to make the [...]

Amid Scandals, Obama Turns to Counterterrorism and Osama

WITH THE IRS scandal dogging the White House, due to the fetish like prophylactic protection penchant of White House aides, President Obama turned to counterterrorism and invoking Osama bin Laden, in a speech that reminded the American people that he’s the guy who got Osama. Turning to national security, Obama sought to interrupt the right [...]Show More Summary

Who Could Have Imagined

Who could have imagined that a Senator who came into office on a commercial morphing his opponent into Osama bin Laden would declare Obama speech a victory for terrorists....

Bin Laden Death Photos Can Stay Secret

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Show More Summary

Court: US Can Keep Bin Laden Photos Under Wraps

(WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government’s decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Show More Summary

Is Obama's Government Too Big To Succeed?

President Obama can claim to have killed Osama bin Laden. He can reasonably take credit for helping to avert a second Great Depression. But Obama has yet to master his management of the federal government, as shown this month by theShow More Summary

Noam Chomsky: Obama Would Have Started Nuclear War To Kill Bin Laden

The act of killing bin Laden could have started a nuclear war says the MIT professor. “We were very close to war with Pakistan, which easily could have turned into a nuclear war, which could have destroyed all of us,” he told Jason Liosatos of Global Peace Radio. “The Obama administration was willing to take [...]

It’s an Obama World… Pakistani Doctor Who Held Find Bin Laden Was Denied Asylum in US

It’s Barack Obama’s Special Way of Saying ‘Thank You!’… The Pakistani doctor who helped the United States find Osama Bin Laden was denied asylum. Now Pashtun Dr. Shakil Afridi could die for helping the US. FOX News reported: The jailed … Continue reading ?

In Memoriam

I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to President Obama. It was under his watch that Osama bin Laden, a generally vile human being who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of American civilians, was...

The Story That Led To The Investigation Of The Associated Press

The original story was about how the CIA “foiled an al Qaeda bomb plot” around the time of the death of  bin Laden, and was published May 7, 2012.: The CIA has thwarted a plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a new design around the one-year [...]

Sunday wrap

Who said it? 1. “They’re in the midst of a presidential campaign. The narrative by the Obama campaign is that Bin Laden is dead, the — al-Qaeda is on the run, not to worry about anything. And here comes this … Continue reading ?

Limbaugh Repeats Discredited Claim That Obama Was "Off The Grid" During Benghazi Attack

From the May 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Previously: Limbaugh Claims Obama "Killing Bin Laden And Running Around Bragging About It" Led To Attack In Benghazi Fox's Crowley Revisits Debunked Myth That Obama, Clinton Were "Unaccounted For" During Benghazi Attack Fox's Krauthammer Resurrects Myth That Obama Was Absent During Benghazi Attack

Late Night Open Thread

Watching Manhunt on HBO, a documentary of all the women who spent decades working on finding and killing bin Laden. None of them looked like Jessica Chastain. Every single fucking one of them was a better actor. Also too, I went to the bar to get a chicken sandwich to go and some young co-ed [...]

Raymond Barrett: The War on Terror Is Over...But Osama Bin Laden Won.

Committing atrocities is one thing, but institutionalizing them with the full imprimatur of the US government is another, and a more definitive way to ensure Bin Laden enjoys a posthumous victory.

Obama: Bin Laden, Gadhafi show I’m serious about Syria

President Barack Obama defiantly defended his handling of Syria’s civil war on Tuesday, warning that Iraq showed the danger of acting on “perceived” evidence of weapons of mass destruction. And for those who doubt his determination to see Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad ousted from power, Obama bluntly pointed to the fate of Osama bin Laden and [...]

While Past Administrations Have Achieved Release of Political Prisoners, Afridi Remains Imprisoned

With the Obama administration currently doing little to free Dr. Shakil Afridi, the source who helped American forces find and target Osama Bin Laden, it is obvious that their concerns lie elsewhere. Past administrations have achieved freedom for American-allied political prisoners elsewhere in the world. Show More Summary

Declassified Memo Shows ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers Played Role of Willing Propagandists for CIA

Filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated film, Zero Dark Thirty, which dramatized the hunt for Osama bin Laden that ended in his execution, were known to have communicated with the CIA multiple times during production. Now, according to...Show More Summary

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