NATO "braces for reprisals" from Pakistani-backed jihadists in retaliation for airstrike

A very interesting post from http://www.jihadwatch.org/ about the chance that Pakistanis might retaliate for the defensive airstrike on the border. This follows this previous post about the defensive airstrike against Pakistan. This follows this article about  American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!

NATO "braces for reprisals" from Pakistani-backed jihadists in retaliation for airstrike


"This will come back at us, and at a time and a place of their [the ISI's] choosing."



"Nato braces for reprisals after deadly air strike on Pakistan border post," by Julian Borger and Saeed Shah for the Guardian, November 27:



"Nato braces for reprisals after deadly air strike on Pakistan border post," by Julian Borger and Saeed Shah for the Guardian, November 27.

Senior officers from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), were scrambling to resume contacts with their Pakistani counterparts in the hopes of setting up a joint investigation into the incident.

But Pakistani officers severed communications and Islamabad cut Isaf's two supply routes running through Pakistan.

It also gave the US two weeks to vacate the Shamsi airbase in Balochistan, which has been used to launch American drone aircraft.

One Isaf source voiced concern that the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, could go much further and use its suspected influence over insurgent groups in the tribal areas along the Afghan border to launch reprisal attacks on Nato. "This will come back at us, and at a time and a place of their [the ISI's] choosing," the source predicted. In September the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said the ISI was using insurgent groups such as the Haqqani network to wage a "proxy war" in Afghanistan....Posted by Marisol

Wknd Box Office: My Week w/ Marilyn, The Descendants, The Skin I Live In

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/  reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post some of the movies from last week and  THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed!  This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: My Week w/ Marilyn, The Descendants, The Skin I Live In


By Debbie Schlussel



I’ve already reviewed some of the good new movies for Thanksgiving that came out on Wednesday.  Now, here are the also-rans–two I didn’t get to, and one (Marilyn) which just debuted in theaters in my area, today.  There’s one decent one and one which is just simply horrifying garbage.





* “My Week With Marilyn“: I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe was the most overrated figure in history. She was nothing more than a selfish, neurotic, self-absorbed, manipulative, temperamental bimbo, respected only because like James Dean and JFK, she was mediocrity that died young. And, so, I expected to hate this movie. But I liked it, in part because it goes along with my view. On the other hand, others who buy into the “Myth of Marilyn” also like it. Thus, I guess Marilyn flicks are in the eye of the Marilyn beholder. I also liked this because it’s light and fun and full of glamor from the time in which it takes place, the ’50s. It’s not a “great” movie destined to be a classic, but it’s not bad. It’s entertaining and is what we expect to get out of a good time at the movies–almost two hours of escapism. It’s also enjoyable because Michelle Williams nails it, making us instantly believe she is Marilyn Monroe. She gets the persona down in every way, from the mannerisms and behavior to the voice and the look. It’s uncanny.





The story: Eddie Redmayne plays Colin Clark, a 20 year old English blueblood to the manner born. He wants to impress his aristocratic family, but also wants to pursue his interest in film and make something of himself. So he finagles his way into a job as a third assistant director a/k/a gopher on a set of a movie starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier being shot in England. Olivier is directing the project, believing it to be a star turn for him. But despite the best laid plans, that’s not how it turns out. Monroe is her usual self. She’s bombastic, unreliable, always late, constantly forgets her lines, and always broods, pouts, and cries. Soon Clark and Monroe develop a friendship which appears on the cusp of turning into more.



It’s a bearable kind of chick flick, though less bearable because Marilyn Monroe is the man, and young Colin Clark is definitely the chick, doe-eyed, naive, fawning, and all. It’s somewhat predictable from beginning to end, but a balmy, light, pleasant road along the way.



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* “The Descendants“: This highly over-rated exercise in ennui stars the world’s most arrogant actor, George Clooney. And he’s suited for the role as a know-it-all, workaholic lawyer and Hawaiian resident, who thinks he is smarter, better, and more moral than everyone else in his life. But he’s in for a rude awakening. He’s out of touch.



Clooney is the descendant of a Hawaiian princess and an American banker, and he’s the trustee for his far-flung set of waspy-looking Hawaiian relatives deciding what to do with 25,000 acres of valuable Hawaiian land they’ve all inherited on Kauai. Clooney wants to sell to a local hotel, golf course, and shopping mall developer, though some relatives want to keep the land intact. Clooney’s wife is an adventurous person who gets severely injured and put in a coma during a boating or water-skiing accident. Clooney must deal with his two young daughters and become close to them again, as he struggles with his wife’s deteriorating health condition in the hospital and discovers she was cheating on him.



The only thing admirable about this movie was the eventually close relationship between father and daughters. But that wasn’t enough to get me to like this very slow movie chock full of the smug Clooney moralizing and lecturing us as he does in real life. Annoying is the best word for this film in which little is resolved and the people are highly unlikable.



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* “The Skin I Live In [La Piel Que Habito]“: This is the most disturbing, horrifying, disgusting, barbaric, warped movie I’ve seen in recent memory. I was absolutely sickened and should have walked out, as more than one person did (I was not at a studio screening–which I couldn’t attend due to a scheduling conflict, but went to see this on my own). This is billed as a “sci-fi thriller,” but don’t let that fool ya. It’s a complete piece of utter abomination and garbage. Nothing thrilling about it, and there’s hardly “sci-fi,” so much as there is rape and torture. This “movie” is absolute proof that no matter how warped and disgusting our own un-American Hollywood is, the movie industries of Europe are far worse and and even more beyond help. This movie is so sick, so bad that mere words are not enough to convey just how awful and perverted it is. But I will provide the spoilers here, so that you don’t waste a penny on this sickening cinematic display. (It’s in Spanish with English subtitles.)



Mr. Melanie Griffith a/k/a Antonio Banderas stars as a plastic surgeon, whose wife and daughter have both committed suicide and whose daughter was raped. Banderas’ surgery clinic is inside his mansion. Banderas’ wife was having an affair with Banderas’ half-brother, the maid’s wanted criminal son (the maid is also Bandera’s mother, unbeknownst to him). Then, the wife was engulfed in flames in the car while she’s there with her lover. She is hideously deformed from the burns, and when she sees herself in the mirror, she jumps out the window in front of her daughter.



Then there’s the daughter. Since both the daughter and the guy who raped her were hopped up on drugs and alcohol and begin having sex, I’m not sure I’d call it rape, as she tries to get him to stop in the middle–and then he knocks her out (okay, that part is the violence and rape). The daughter goes nuts after the rape and kills herself after some time at an insane asylum. To get revenge, Banderas kidnaps the guy who did it and gives him a forced sex change operation against his will, transforming him into a beautiful woman whom he keeps prisoner in his house. In the process, he discovers a new, tougher skin transplant morphing the cells of pigs and humans. Banderas develops a crush on this alleged rapist whom he’s forcibly changed into a woman, who looks similar to his dead wife.



One day, the maid’s criminal son, Banderas’ half-brother, returns to the mansion and rapes the newly sex-changed rapist. Banderas returns home and kills him and then begins having sex with the rapist whom he forcibly sex-changed to look like a woman. Ultimately, the kidnapped, sex-changed woman kills Banderas and Banderas’ maid/mother and returns to his mother, who has been looking for her kidnapped son for two years. He must tell his mother what has happened to him and how he’s been forcibly changed into a woman.



Sick. Nauseating. Disgusting. Warped. That’s what passes for “art” in arthouse movie theaters, these days. Thanks, Antonio Banderas, for contributing to the human waste material in the world’s intellectual septic tank. If you like this movie, you are in serious need of help . . . and a straitjacket.



FOUR MARXES PLUS

Christmas: a celebration banned by the Puritans!!!!!

An interesting article from www.ucg.org about the Puritan's approach to Christmas. This follows this post about the U.S. Thanksgiving. This follows this post about the Super Committee's failure. For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

Christmas: a banned celebration




In England "the Protestants found their own quieter ways of celebrating, in calm and meditation," while "the strict Puritans refused to celebrate at all ...The Pilgrims in Massachusetts made a point of working on Christmas as on any other day. On June 3, 1647, Parliament established punishments for observing Christmas and certain other holidays. This policy was reaffirmed in 1652" (Del Re, p. 20).



Even colonial America considered Christmas more of a raucous revelry than a religious occasion: "So tarnished, in fact, was its reputation in colonial America that celebrating Christmas was banned in Puritan New England, where the noted minister Cotton Mather described yuletide merrymaking as ‘an affront unto the grace of God'" (Jeffery Sheler, "In Search of Christmas," U.S. News and World Report, Dec. 23, 1996, p. 56).

Afghan officials: "Forces were retaliating for gunfire from two Pakistani army bases"

A very interesting post from http://www.jihadwatch.org/ about a defensive airstrike against Pakistan. This follows this post about Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. This follows this article about  American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries such as Iran and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and read this very interesting book HERE!


Afghan officials: "Forces were retaliating for gunfire from two Pakistani army bases"


This account supports a senior Western official's statement that the airstrikes were a defensive measure, and suggests another case of curiously close proximity between jihadists and Pakistani military posts. U.S. officers reportedly also believed the Pakistani military was providing cover for jihadists in a firefight in late October, along with other recent allegations of jihadists' operating in the sight of the Pakistani military.



Once again, this may have been a tragic accident. Or jihadists may have tried to draw fire in the direction of Pakistani bases to create an incident. Or, it may have been the inevitable outcome of collaboration between Pakistan and its jihadist clients, and recent reports such as the ones linked above make the last scenario all too plausible. "Afghan officials: Fire from Pakistan led to attack," by Rahim Faiez and Sebastian Abbott for the Associated Press, November 27:



ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghanistan officials claimed Sunday that Afghan and NATO forces were retaliating for gunfire from two Pakistani army bases when they called in airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, adding a layer of complexity to an episode that has further strained Pakistan's ties with the United States.

The account challenged Pakistan's claim that the strikes were unprovoked.

The attack Saturday near the Afghan-Pakistani border aroused popular anger in Pakistan and added tension to the U.S.-Pakistani relationship, which has been under pressure since the secret U.S. raid inside Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden in May.

Pakistan has closed its western border to trucks delivering supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan, demanded that the U.S. abandon an air base inside Pakistan and said it will review its cooperation with the U.S. and NATO.

A complete breakdown in the relationship between the United States and Pakistan is considered unlikely. Pakistan relies on billions of dollars in American aid, and the U.S. needs Pakistan to push Afghan insurgents to participate in peace talks.

Afghanistan's assertions about the attack muddy the efforts to determine what happened. The Afghan officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said it was unclear who fired on Afghan and NATO forces, which were conducting a joint operation before dawn Saturday.

They said the fire came from the direction of the two Pakistani army posts along the border that were later hit in the airstrikes.

NATO has said it is investigating, but it has not questioned the Pakistani claim that 24 soldiers were killed. All airstrikes are approved at a higher command level than the troops on the ground....Posted by Marisol

Pelosi Bashes Catholics: “They Have This Conscience Thing”

An interesting story from http://www.lifenews.com/ about Nancy Pelosi bashing her fellow Catholics. (Why don't they excommunicate her?) This follows this post about abortion funding in Obamacare. For more that you can do to get involved click  HERE and you can also get a very interesting book HERE!

Pelosi Bashes Catholics: “They Have This Conscience Thing”


Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is at it again, bashing Catholics for their pro-life position when she has promoted abortion in defiance of Catholic Church teaching at every turn.



This time, Pelosi is upset that the nation’s Catholic bishops are protesting a potential Obama administration decision forcing insurance companies to cover birth control, contraception and drugs that could cause abortions. They say certain religious groups may not be exempt from providing the insurance, which would violate their moral and religious views.



Pelosi says the position is akin to having hospitals “say to a woman, ‘I’m sorry you could die’ if you don’t get an abortion,” she told the Washington Post.



“Those who dispute that characterization “may not like the language,’’ she said, “but the truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it . . . but they have this conscience thing” that the Post said Pelosi “insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic providers strongly disagree.”



Pelosi also defended controversial remarks she made about a bill to prevent Obamacare from funding abortions, where she claimed Republicans “want women to die on the floor.” http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/21/pelosi-bashes-catholics-they-have-this-conscience-thing/

Thanksgiving Box Office: Hugo, The Muppets, Arthur Christmas, Melancholia

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/  reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post some of the movies from last week and  THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed!  This all  follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!





Thanksgiving Box Office: Hugo, The Muppets, Arthur Christmas, Melancholia

By Debbie Schlussel



Finally, some great movies at the box office. Three great movies and only one stinker. It figures that the “adult” movie by a Hitler-supporting Jew-hater is the only bomb in the bunch.




* “Hugo“: Finally a 3D movie that should be in 3D. Martin Scorsese directed this visually stunning and terrific story. You’ll love this, and it’s great for families. Kids will love it, but so will adults, as I did.  But you’ll  have to disregard that two of the co-stars are Sacha Baron Cohen and the actively anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Ben Kingsley.



Set in 1930s Paris, Hugo is a young orphan who fixes the clocks at a train station. Unbeknownst to everyone, he lives alone in a hidden apartment inside the station’s clock tower. He and his father used to fix clocks, but his father was killed in a fire. Hugo and his father were trying to fix a mechanical robot, and Hugo continues to fix it, using parts he steals from the train station toy shop of an old man (Kingsley). Soon, though, he gets caught by the man and is forced to fix toys at the store, while he tries to get back his notebook about how to fix the mechanical robot, which the shopkeeper takes from him. But he meets the man’s granddaughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), and she and Hugo become fast friends, sneaking into movies and poring over books at a the train station’s used bookstore because of their shared love of reading classic books.





Hugo and the granddaughter try to figure out what the old man shopkeeper’s connection is to the mechanical toy robot and they soon make an incredible discovery about who this man, the grandfather, is and why he’s so sad.



A tremendous movie that moves slowly at first but is full of charm and magic. The style, color, sets, costumes, and everything else is simply terrific. The special effects and the colorful characters that populate the train station are rich, as is the story.



FOUR REAGANS



* “The Muppets“: I thought I’d hate this movie because 1) I never liked “The Muppet Show” as a kid, and 2) it’s written by and stars  Jason Segel, who is most well known for displaying his penis in multiple scenes on the big screen in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (read my review).  But I was wrong. This movie is terrific, aside from a bad left-wing message against businessmen and oil drillers. It’s very funny, entertaining, and will be enjoyed by kids and adults. In fact, many of the jokes, which make fun of the ’80s, might be a little over kids’ heads. But they will love it. Great for families. And very cute. It is typical Hollywood anti-business, anti-”big oil” stuff, though, as the villain is an evil, rich businessman who wants to drill for oil on Muppets land. So, you have to explain to your kids to ignore that message. It’s sad you have to do that with a kids’ movie. The late Jim Henson, as far as I remember, did not have political messages in his Muppets movies. The movie also has several musical numbers.



Gary (Jason Segel) has a brother, Walter, who looks like a Muppet and never gets older and more mature, unlike the adult Gary, who has grown up. Walter desperately wants to fit in but is constantly made fun of. Soon, he discovers re-runs of the ’80s series, “The Muppet Show,” and loves it, feeling he can identify with the Muppets. Gary has been dating a teacher, Mary (the talented Amy Adams, who has a great singing voice), for ten years, and she wants to get married, but she is upset that Gary takes Walter everywhere. Gary and Mary take Walter on their trip to Los Angeles, where they tour the old, decrepit Muppets studio. While there, Walter overhears the two Muppet lawyers negotiating to sell the Muppets studio to an evil businessman (Chris Cooper) who pretends he will update the Muppets’ land for more tours. But he really wants to tear it down so he can drill for oil. Walter and Gary try to find Kermit through maps of the stars’ homes and plot to take back the Muppets studios with a telethon.



You’ll see all the old Muppets in this movie, a few new ones, and plenty of celebrity cameos, including (sadly) James Carville (why?). The movie has several musical numbers and is overall a great movie, sadly enmeshed with the left-wing messages I note above. Without that, it would have been a FOUR REAGAN movie.



THREE REAGANS




* “Arthur Christmas“: I very much enjoyed this cute, animated movie for kids. I could have done without the cheesy Justin Bieber music video at the beginning, though.



Arthur Christmas is the clumsy, misfit younger brother in Santa Claus’ family. His father is Santa, and his big brother is the high-tech guru who runs computerized operations at the North Pole,where every delivery of Christmas gifts is planned, timed to the second, and coordinated using the latest in technology and intelligence. But a Christmas present of one girl gets misplaced in the computerized commotion. While Santa is willing to forget about it because it’s too late to deliver the gift–and he’s tired–Arthur and his grandfather, Grandsanta (who is upset he’s been involuntary retired) set off into the night to deliver the gift, using an old-fashioned sleigh, rather than the high-tech spaceship sleigh Santa now uses. What could go wrong?



Charming, cute, fast-paced, and great for kids.



THREE REAGANS




* “Melancholia“: This extremely boring, way too long, uber-pretentious piece of crap was directed by Hitler fan, and Jew-hating, anti-Israel fanatic Lars Von Trier.  It figures that a Nazi would make something beautifully and neatly shot with nothing else to offer.  There is barely a story and definitely no plot.  It’s stupid.  And I couldn’t wait for it to be over.  I also struggled to stay awake.  Starring the always dull, highly overrated pothead Kirsten Dunst, the movie begins with Dunst as a new bride in the limo on the way to her disastrous wedding reception at her sister and wealthy brother-in-law’s (Kiefer Sutherland) countryside mansion estate. They are two hours late, and when they get there, the depressed Dunst is constantly sullen and frequently disappears from the event. She finally realizes she doesn’t want to be married to the guy she just married and has random sex on the lawn with some guy from the reception. Then, the earth is about to be destroyed because a planet, Melancholia, is coming closer and closer to colliding with the earth. I’m not sure what else happens other than Dunst pouting and yelling at others, horses roaming, Dunst posing nude, and people shown sitting and looking.



A complete waste of time by a Nazi. Yay. You’ll be beyond melancholy that you wasted at least ten bucks and more than two hours on this high brow crap. Complete garbage.



FOUR MARXES PLUS

The Hispanic Terrorist Trend—Why No MSM Feeding Frenzy?

An urgent post from http://www.vdare.com/ about domestic terrorism. This follows this post about Newt Gingrich's weak position on immigration enforcement. This follows this post about the Presidential Candidate strongest on immigration.  This follows this post  about Louisiana suing about the appropriations of House Seats and the Electoral College(think about redistricting in your state)!   This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants such as the 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

And Remember when contacting public officials to please be firm but respectful. Any over the top messages could result in law enforcement action against you. Just let these politicians know that you are aware of what they have done and that you intend to remove them from office in the 2012 elections.

The Hispanic Terrorist Trend—Why No MSM Feeding Frenzy?


http://www.vdare.com/articles/the-hispanic-terrorist-trend-why-no-msm-feeding-frenzy

By James Ryan

On November 10^th, witnesses heard six shots fired into the White House. One bullet lodged in the bulletproof glass of a residence window, and another was found along the exterior of the building. Shortly thereafter, an AK-47 assault rifle with a large scope was found in an abandoned car on a nearby bridge.

An “Idaho man” was arrested and charged. He had a criminal history including domestic violence charges, and reportedly had visited an extremist camp and stayed there before the shooting. He had an apocalyptic worldview, tattooed the world “Israel” on his neck, and frequently adorned himself in religious regalia. In a video he made, he declared that he was “the modern-day Jesus Christ that you all have been waiting for" who “was sent here from God to lead the world to Zion."



On November 20^th, a “New York man” was arrested in a plot to target government workers and federal government facilities with a bomb.

The man is unemployed and lives with his mother. He had subscribed to extremist magazines and frequented extremist websites on the internet. He had talked about plans to assassinate government officials and 'wage war' against the federal government.

You might expect pictures of these two men to be emblazoned everywhere as part of a months-long Main Stream Media blitz. You might expect the MSM to declare that the plots constitute a Trend, and demand something be done about it. You might expect the MSM to rush to uncover anyone who might be possibly remotely connected to the men—as it did after Jared Loughner shot up a supermarket in Arizona, making a wholly false connection to American Renaissance editor, and VDARE.com writer, Jared Taylor.

But we haven't seen that. Only scant media coverage has occurred. Most of that has focused on dismissing the men as “not a serious threat” and “mentally ill”.

Why the lack of MSM coverage for the Idaho man charged with shooting up the White House and the New York man plotting to “wage war” on the federal government? Perhaps it has something to do with the alleged shooter's name being Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez. And the man involved in the alleged bomb plot is named Jose Pimentel, although he sometimes calls himself “Muhammad Yusuf” or “Obama Hussein”.

Perhaps this is also why Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez escaped the notice of the Secret Service and other authorities for so long. After the shooting, the Secret Service said it did not have any records of him making any threats against the President. Yet many people who knew him reported that he regularly did just that. One of his friends told investigators that Mr. Ortega-Hernandez said he believed the President was the “Antichrist” and that he 'needed to kill him'. Another friend said Ortega-Hernandez said “President Obama was the problem with the government,” was “the devil,” and that he “needed to be taken care of.” The second friend also said Ortega-Hernandez appeared to be “preparing for something.” [In Gunshots, a Trail of Threats Is Reported, By Charlie Savage, NYT, November 17, 2011]

It seems that the Secret Service, like other federal investigative forces, has started to believe their own propaganda that the most likely “domestic terrorists” are native born Americans of “non-ethnic” European ancestry. In a recent video put out by the Department of Homeland Security, all potential terrorists were depicted as white, the sort of people traditionally considered to be “ordinary Americans”.

The Department of Homeland Security, in its training of state and local police forces, has perpetuated this image of “domestic terrorists”. According to many reports”. According to many reports, the DHS’ own internal documents



“list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists; such as Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, and a myriad of other comparatively banal political interests that are largely the domain of white middle class Americans.” [DHS Video Characterizes White Americans as Most Likely Terrorists, By Paul Joseph Watson,Infowars.com, July 21, 2011]



It appears that, like Jared Loughner, Ortega-Hernandez and Pimental's actions were prompted at least in part by mental illness. But, according to the American Psychiatric Association, “second and later-generation Hispanic/Latino youth also are at higher risk for mental and emotional disorders,” compared to the population at large. [Mental Health in the Hispanic/Latino Community, PDF]

Has the American Psychiatric Association endorsed VDARE.com's discovery of “Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome”? The psychological stress of immigration and cultural alienation was exactly the point made by Brenda Walker both in her article on “Immigrant Familicide” and in the article on the Virginia Tech massacre that launched the IMMS concept: Diversity Is Strength! It's Also...Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome, April 23, 2007.

You won't hear any of this from Newt Gingrich and other advocates of mass Third World immigration.

Let’s review: In a race-neutral world, a man shooting up the White House, which has not happened in almost two decades, would be a top story for weeks. If it had been followed a week and a half later by the arrest of a man building bombs who had declared war on the federal government, it would be natural to look for possible patterns. Had the men been named Oskar Harman and Frank Penn, it’s not too far of a stretch to visualize an MSM feeding frenzy for months.

But in this case, there's a pattern that our media elites don't want people to see. So the stories have been moved off the front pages and network TV as fast as possible.

Move along, Americans. Nothing to see here.

James Ryan (email him) is an intelligence analyst who lives and works in the Washington, D.C. metro area.