DENNIS MULLIN (1948-2012)

 By Bill Rife

"The interviews with Saddam Hussein and the Shah of Iran were pure theater. In Bagdad, a smiling Saddam was perched on an elevated chair assuring that he was the tallest person at a table of notables. Dennis, the second American reporter to interview him, sat at his right hand and immediately afterwards felt the session had gone well, S.H. apparently disagreed. He had the interpreter shot the following day. In Tehran, Dennis was ushered into the royal palace on the obligatory red carpet and tea was served in gold cups. The brash young American asked if he could smoke. The Shah jerked his head back and made a smacking sound…. which Dennis took as a “yes” and lit up. All present diverted their eyes to their shoes. Amazingly, he not only survived but completed a successful interview. The Shah later repeatedly requested Dennis Mullin as his preferred question and answer guy." (Double left click on image for full story).

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By Bill Rife

"More recently, on April 3, O’Donnell unleashed a despicable anti-Mormon snarl (a “ridiculous” and “demented” religion) which reached a new low, even for MSNBC. O'Donnell dismissed Mormonism as a religion "invented" by Joseph Smith, to excuse his infidelity.  Shifting to his real target, he sneeringly added that Mitt Romney "says he believes" in his religion. Duh!" (Double left click on image for full story)

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By Bill Rife

"The primary looms on Tuesday.  This should be no contest in Michigan or any other state. In Mitt Romney, you have the most qualified presidential (Republican or Democrat) candidate, certainly since George Herbert Walker Bush, maybe ever." (Double left click on image for full story).

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“'I won’t vote for Romney because he’s a Mormon.' At least this guy admits it! That declaration comes not from a southern evangelical but a right-wing Republican: a major corporation VP whose issues are not Romney care, his purported flip-flops or insufficient conservatism. It’s the religion, dummy!" (Double left click on image for full story)

By Bill Rife 

Eco-terror's weapon of choice; Torching

ECOLOGY CORNER: We all agree. What could be more praiseworthy than defending Planet Earth and/or life on it? But today’s Environmentalist Movement, however noble its goals (and perhaps unwittingly) has hatched, harbored and given cover to some of the most unsavory elements in American society.  Anti-war and anarchism of the 1960s has resurfaced as Eco-Terrorism. “Although ample precedent for radical protest has long existed in America, the FBI pegs the rampage of organized “direct action” arson, theft, vandalism, harassment and violent physical attacks allegedly to save the environment or hype animal rights, as beginning only in 1977. Regardless of when a blastoff date is pinpointed, the insurrection took off running.” (Double left click on image for full story).

By Bill Rife

WEINERGATE & OTHER TRIVIALITIES by Jack Hunter for TAC

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Illegal aliens in massive numbers continue to flood across, around, over, under and directly through our Swiss cheese southern border. The facts on the ground become less tolerable by the hour. Solutions have been presented, put on hold, disregarded, deep-sixed, or, at best, half-heartedly acted upon.  So far, nothing has really worked. An active veteran Border Patrol Agent, who shall remain nameless, gives his take on the chaos and what to do about at least part of it.....(Left click on image for full story)

By Bill Rife

NORMANDY INVASION/ listal.com

Jockey-sized Jimmy “Bud” Thomas passed away in 2007 at age 92. He had long been a cheerful presence at Georgio’s basement pub in Washington DC. Jimmy was forever upbeat, exceptionally modest, spunky, and had no time for bluster. Few of his fellow patrons, however, knew that beneath that weather-worn L.L. Bean jacket beat the heart of a lion. He was in the thick of seven World War II campaigns, including four major invasions: The North African Campaign, 8 November 1942; The Sicilian Campaign, 10 July 1943; The Italian Campaign, 9 September 1943; The Normandy Campaign, 6 June 1944; The Northern France Campaign 22 March 1944; The Rhineland Campaign, 15 September 1944; and The Central Germany Campaign, 22 March 1945. Jimmy, the diminutive nonagenarian, was a charter member of what Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation any society has ever produced." (Left click on image for full story).

By Bill Rife

CHUTZPH! /Crooksandliars.com

The Barney Frank/Fannie Mae saga continues:

From the Boston Herald, May  26   2011: “(US Rep Barney)Frank said he helped his former longtime companion, Herb Moses, land a job at Fannie Mae in 1991 after Moses graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from Dartmouth College. Frank said he was approached by a Fannie Mae executive and vouched for Moses, who formerly worked as an economist in the Department of Agriculture.”

For those unfamiliar with the full story, we offer  a trip down memory lane by republishing an article originally posted in Continentaldivide.us April 26 2009. This includes  a  partial transcript of  a the classic 2009 Bill O’Reilly-Barney Frank dustup on Fox News (see video)....swinish manners, but great theatre. ( Left click on image for full story)

Republican spoilers both?

"How could such rickety presidential timber have the audacity to run for the highest office in the land? That Barack Obama won with the thinnest resume in U.S. history was not lost on Donald. But there may well be a more sinister explanation for the Trump candidacy, one actually designed to keep Obama in office." (Left click on image for full story)

By Bill Rife