The scandal-plagued, tiny New Mexico border town of Columbus is dissolving its police department and asking the county sheriff to protect its citizens. An employee at Columbus City Hall confirmed to The Lookout that the police force has been dissolved. The Luna County Sheriff’s Office will now take over patrolling the town. The town has been upended since federal authorities arrested Police Chief... 

President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks. “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,”... 

Two years ago, UN researchers were claiming that it would cost “as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade” to go green. A new UN report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion a year for 40 years. That’s $76 trillion, or more than five times the entire Gross Domestic Product of the United States ($14.66 trillion a year). It’s all part of a “technological... 

Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone apparently thinks so, after proposing that the county lead a campaign for as many as 13 Southern California counties to secede from the state.Stone said in a statement late Thursday that Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties should form the new state of South California. read... 

Maybe coincidence, but…. When President Obama launched missiles and warplanes against Libya’s longtime dictator Col. Kadafi in March, it came after a series of public warnings from both the president himself and his press secretary, Jay Carney, in support of pro-democracy demonstrators and against the regime’s violent reactions. The ongoing attacks against Libya, which Obama... 

Have you ever imagined quitting your job and telling your old cretin of a boss exactly what you think of him? Of course — it’s the American dream. And Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is living it right now, having gone to the doorstep of one of the world’s most ossified, stultifying bureaucracies — NATO — and delivered this message: Get your act together. There will come a time, Gates... 

The first in a series of Congressional hearings into the so-called “gunwalker” scandal is set for Monday, June 13th. The title:”Obstruction of Justice: Does the Justice Department Have to Respond to a Lawfully Issued and Valid Congressional Subpoena?” ‘Gunwalker guns linked to helicopter shooting As CBS News reported on April 1, the House Oversight Committeesubpoenaed... 

YouTube – Abbas will go to UN for recognition of Palestine. Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday slammed a speech by Israel’s prime minister and said the Palestinians would seek UN recognition if peace talks don’t resume. “Our first choice is negotiations, but if there is no progress before September we will go to the United Nations,” Abbas said, criticising... 

White House’s New Director of Progressive Media & Online Response Is married to a Campaign Director at MoveOn.org. You know the group behind this… As Bryan reported yesterday, the Obama White House has hired a man named Jesse Lee to be its new Director of Progressive Media & Online Response or something. This is believed to imply that when people such as, say, Christian Adams... 

CAIRO — Egypt will permanently open its border crossing with the Gaza Strip this weekend, the government announced Wednesday, suggesting that military leaders are being swayed by growing sentiment here in favor of distancing the country from Israel. Opening the Rafah crossing, the only official entry point outside Israel into the Palestinian territory, would ease the blockade imposed after the militant...