As Gods: Spreading American Values Across The World

Stunning green eyes, golden hair, and a sweet, carefree smile, Jamie Leigh Jones looks as though her picture would be at home on a magazine cover.  One can imagine the Houston native’s accent, the “yalls” and the slow drawls, as well as the sun filtering through her blonde curls as she...

Blackwater Immunity Deal Typewritten on Guards’ Statements

ABC claims an exclusive in obtaining the text of the immunity deal “included at the beginning of the Blackwater guards’ sworn statements.” Yet, the State Department has been claiming its Senior Officials in Washington were completely unaware of the deal.  Huh?  You mean to tell me that...

CNN Punked Me on Blackwater-Immunity

Earlier, I posted on a CNN report that claimed a Senior State Department Official was now saying the Blackwater guards were not given an immunity deal. CNN, without any acknowledgment of a revision, has now changed the story 180 degrees. The lede paragraphs now read: No blanket immunity deal was offered to...

Blackwater, Like Al Capone before them, may have met their match in the Treasury Department

Tax fraud is nothing new to the wonderful world of “free market” capitalism. Let me go out on a limb and say that it is nearly as popular in the sound proof cubicles of America’s corporations as Krispy Kreme donuts and fantasy football. Nearly. For quite some time now our good corporate “super-citizens”...

Mercs R’ Us

Over at the Bush-lovin’ Blackfive site, Uncle Jimbo, the VP of goofs, posts about the current flood of Blackwater dust ups as merely the latest foray in team politics. The Left and Democrats are portrayed as having “shifted fire, from the troops and their traitorous leadership” to...