White House on preliminary assessment of Christmas Day incident

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 31, 2009 Statement from the President on preliminary assessments from reviews ordered on the Christmas Day incident This morning, I spoke with John Brennan about preliminary assessments from the ongoing consultations I have ordered into the human and systemic failures that occurred leading up to the attempted act of terrorism on [...]

Is S.C. Senator DeMint hold on TSA director justified?

<!– –> In a news conference, President Barrack Obama admitted that the attempted Christmas bombing on Northwest flight 253 showed that a systemic failure had occurred. However, just a day before, Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano stated that the system had worked. She later clarified that the system worked only after officials became [...]

Canwest journalist, 4 soldiers die in Afghan blast

<!– –> A Canadian journalist and four Canadian soldiers died in Afghanistan on Wednesday in the blast of an improvised explosive device. Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, 34, was on secondment to Canwest News Service and was travelling with a provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar when the attack occurred. The Department of National Defence has [...]

Twelve Anti-Family Gifts from Congress

As Congress wraps up its final business for the year, there are at least a dozen detrimental policies included in the omnibus spending bill recently signed into law by the President. Taken as a whole, these policies devalue human life, weaken civil society, and undermine the family. Unfortunately, these provisions have largely gone unnoticed by [...]

AMERICAN AIRLINES STATEMENT REGARDING FLIGHT 331 Release #2 @ 2:25 a.m. ET

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire/ — On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, overran the runway on landing at Kingston, Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport. The flight originated out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, operated into Miami International Airport, and then operated into Kingston’s Norman Manley International [...]