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Hot Air » Blog Archive » Flight 327 revisited: Based on report, some air marshals suspect dry run

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Flight 327 revisited: Based on report, some air marshals suspect dry run:

"Portions of the report remain redacted. However, air marshals and former
air marshals who reviewed it when provided a copy by The Times say the
activities of the men confirmed by the inspector general details a dry run for a
terrorist attack.“This report is evidence of Homeland Security executives
attempting to downplay and cover-up an unmistakable dry-run that forced flight
attendants to reveal the air marshals and compel the pilots to open the flight
deck door,” said Robert MacLean, a former air marshal who was fired last year
for revealing the service planned to cut back on protection for long-distance
flights to save money."

This is an alarming story. I just read the post over and it sounds like things aren't going as planned with the new Homeland Security Department. If I understood right, it was set up to help the different enforcement and protection agencies to work together. If you read this story, it sounds like that is not happening.

Captain's Quarters

Captain's Quarters:

"Fred Thompson will take the first step towards declaring himself a candidate
for the Republican presidential nomination, according to Ryan Sager at the New
York Sun. After reportedly meeting with campaign-finance advisors, Thompson will
launch a presidential pre-exploratory committee, in a move that will delight
Republicans and satirists in equal measure:"

Can anyone keep track of all the candidates that are in the race anymore? I don't know much about Thompson, but he seems to sit to the right in the Republican party.

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Captain's Quarters

Captain's Quarters:

"The Hill reports this morning that conservative Republicans in the House
have plans to derail the Senate immigration compromise based on a procedural
matter. The bill includes tax policy, which according to the Constitution, has
to originate in the House, and some Republicans have lined up to issue a 'blue
slip' stop to the legislation on that basis."

While I would normally support a bill that was crafted through compromise, this is not a good bill in my opinion and its failure is a good thing. It looks like the bill may be sidelined, at the least more time to work it over and fix some of the mistakes that were made in the bill are needed.

I'll be on CNN tonight - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

I'll be on CNN tonight - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:

"Paula Zahn's show, discussing the Pentagon policy of firing American service
members who are Arabic linguists simply because they're gay. They just fired 3
more. We should be on around 8:05 or 8:10 PM Eastern."

Yeah it makes perfect sense to fire people that we need dearly now because of the war against terror and the war in Iraq, just because they are gay. This is like when we went to fight in World War II and we took our racial inequalities with us. It didn't work then and it won't work now.