By Debbie Schlussel

Many Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents e-mailed me about the indictment of Miami ICE Special Agent in Charge, Anthony Mangione, Tuesday, on charges of possessing child pornography.  As you’ll note, I wrote about this investigation and Mangione’s removal from his position, back in April of this year.  At the time I wrote about this, I noted that, if the allegations were true that he possessed child pornography, he is yet another of a litany of high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials with Top Secret security clearances who are especially susceptible to blackmail by Islamic terrorists.  I mentioned former Tampa ICE Special Agent in Charge Frank Figueroa and former Homeland Security Deputy Press Secretary Brian J. Doyle.  But I’m a little skeptical about the case against Mr. Mangione.

Read the indictment against Mangione.  There are few details, other than that he received a few pornographic images of children in his e-mail.  I’d like to know more.  If that’s all there is, I wonder about this, just as I wonder about others who are charged with this crime.  People send me unsolicited disgusting, pornographic images all of the time.  Sometimes they are people who hate me.  Other times, the senders are just spammers.  I try to delete the ones I’ve opened.  But would I be guilty of this same crime–with which Mr. Mangione is being charged–if I received these e-mails and didn’t delete them because I got interrupted and forgot or because I never opened the e-mails (and it turned out someone in the images was under-aged)?  It’s very difficult to control who sends you e-mail messages and what they send you.  The very brief indictment doesn’t say Mangione solicited the child porn images.  And the information provided seems kind of flimsy. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Check out this order issued by Federal Judge Nancy Edmunds excusing for cause some of the potential jurors in the impending trial of Islamic terrorist Undiebomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

As you’ll note one of the jurors, Juror #26, was dismissed for “religious reasons.”  What exactly does that mean?  Does it mean that the juror was a religious Jew and could not serve because of the upcoming holidays?  Or does it mean something else . . . like the juror was Muslim and felt he/she couldn’t agree that this man is really a terrorist?  Or was it something else?  Sadly, we may never know . . . unless we can get our hands on Juror #26’s jury questionnaire answers.

As you’ll also note there is the disturbing trend of the “Single Mom” excuse.  At least two jurors, Juror #92 and Juror #318, got out of jury duty because they are single moms.  That’s ridiculous.  If you choose to get pregnant and have a kid out of wedlock, this is now an excuse to get out of performing your civic duties while men and married mothers are penalized and stuck?  Yes, if you provide your kid a mother and father in the ever extinct nuclear family, you are sentenced to jury duty.  But screw around and become a baby mama, and you get your “Get Out of Jail Free” card.  What’s wrong with this country?  You get punished for doing the right thing. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

While I’m away celebrating the Jewish holiday of Rosh HaShanah, I thought you’d enjoy checking out these Rosh HaShanah postcards sent out by Jewish American soldiers serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.  All of them had the same picture on front, as depicted below.

(“Gut Yontef”  essentially means Happy Holiday in Yiddish.)

Check out some more Jewish American soldiers’ Rosh HaShanah postcards back home . . . Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Yup, you guessed it.  The “Religion of Peace.”  A Muslim U.S. Citizen, Rezwan Ferdaus, a grad student, planned to blow up the Pentagon using small drone planes.

Federal authorities today arrested and charged a 26-year-old Ashland man with plotting to damage the Pentagon and US Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives.

Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically to al-Qaida, in order to carry out attacks on US soldiers stationed overseas, the US attorney’s office said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

To my friends and readers:  tonight at sundown, the Jewish holiday of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, begins.  It is one of the two most important holidays in Judaism, with the other being Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.  The holiday, outside of Israel, lasts for two days, so I will be out of live blog commission for the next two days.  However, I’ve prepared a few posts in advance, including my Friday movie reviews, which will go up in my absence.  There will be at least a couple of things you won’t read and will not have read anywhere else but on this site.  I will also post a couple more things, today.  So, stay tuned.  Below are a couple of my favorite Rosh HaShanah postcards from my collection, including one that Jews sent in support of America’s troops in World War I, and a cool ’60s or ’70s postcard of an Israeli soldier and his girlfriend.  (Later, I’ll post a few Rosh HaShanah postcards sent by Jewish American soldiers serving in the U.S. Armed Forced during World War II.)

Although it’s called a “New Year,” Rosh HaShanah is not a time for partying and the like that you normally associate with “New Year” celebrations.  It’s an earnest and serious time in which we spend a good deal of the day in synagogue praying that G-d will forgive us for our sins and inscribe us in the Book of Life, inscribe us for a year of health and happiness, success and peace.  It begins the Ten Days of Repentance in Judaism, which ends with Yom Kippur, when our fate is sealed. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

So, an Arab Muslim immigrant to the U.S. openly supports Israel, and gunmen carve a Jewish Star tattoo into his back with a knife. Gee, I wonder what religion they are. No way they’re Muslim, right? (BTW, as you watch the video below, you should probably disregard the reference to FrontPageMag. That hypocritical site continues to pay and employ writers and editors who openly supported the praise of Holocaust-denying Muslim death, rape, and torture threats on my life and my Holocaust survivor grandparents. Remember that whenever you hear David Horowitz decrying Muslim anti-Semitism.)

Yes, this is in the United States of America. Not in Riyadh, Beirut, Paris, or London. But in the U.S.A.

He was attacked on Compton Avenue, just south of downtown on August 14th.

Alaa Alsaegh says that two cars followed him as he drove on Compton. The drivers cut him off and Alsaegh says he pulled over. That’s when two men got out of a car, armed with a handgun. They got into Alsaegh’s car and attacked him with a knife. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve had it with these arrogant celebrities pushing their filth and trashy values on everyone else.  That’s why I especially applaud Irish farmer and landowner Alan Graham for asking topless pop singer Rihanna to leave his property, where she was filming a video for her new single, “We Found Love.”  (Who the heck watches music videos anymore, anyway?)  Graham said he thought it was “inappropriate.”  Spot on.

But always reliably airheaded faux-conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck of ABC’s “The View” attacked the farmer on the yenta hag-fest, this morning, saying Graham was unChristian and unJesus-like because she said “Jesus didn’t turn people like this away.  Jesus welcomed the prostitutes.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

FOX News found an interesting way to wish a Happy Rosh HaShanah to its politically conservative Jewish viewers . . . by designating Jerusalem as “Jewish-occupied territory.” This is what appeared for most of Tuesday on FOXNews.com and at the time I was writing this entry (at 1:00 p.m. Eastern). (It has since been changed but was up this way for hours, and just as I was trying to post about it at 1:00 p.m., my internet service died and I could not get online for hours since my computer had a virus).

Over the weekend, FOX News Chief Roger Ailes gave an interview in which, among other things, he said that FOX News is veering away from its conservatism to become more “mainstream” and “moderate.”  And, apparently, part of that new era of “moderation” is calling the capital of the Jewish State of Israel, “Occupied East Jerusalem,”on the eve of the Jewish New Year holiday.  Today, FOX News posted the outrageous article, whining about newly-approved Jewish “settlements” in “Occupied East Jerusalem.”  I’ve posted the headline and first paragraph of the story as it appeared on FOXNews.com for hours today. Read the rest of this entry »

By Debbie Schlussel

Sorry for very little posting all day, but my Internet service went down in the early afternoon (and I got socked with computer viruses), just as I was trying to post something.  It’s soooo frustrating.  Grrrrr.

Just got back online.  YAY!  More stuff soon. Thanks for your patience and return patronage of this site!

By Debbie Schlussel The feminist and conventional media worlds are OUTRAGED! by former NFL and Major League Baseball star Deion Sanders’ alleged declaration that he is divorcing his wife, actress/model Pilar Sandersbecause:

Guess Whose Gonna Be Runnin’ a Charter School?

Enough is enough. I never signed up for all this. Enough is enough. If I wanted a model or television star, I would have married one a long time ago.  I wanted a housewife.

Under fire for the alleged comments, Sanders now claims he isn’t getting divorced and never uttered the quote. (Maybe his lawyers and accountants told him how much he’d have to fork over in child support.)  But if he did say it (and I think he did), it’s hilarious and interesting on several counts.  First, he did marry an actress/model, so I’m not sure what he expected, especially since he shot a reality show segment with his wife for Oxygen (Oprah’s original channel no one watches).  But what he was reportedly upset about is that his wife was seeking fame on reality television shows and he wanted her at home taking care of the family.  Sanders makes a nice living and doesn’t need her to earn one.  Before I heard that he denied the comments, I thought it was refreshing that he wasn’t worried about banishment from TV sportscasting (he works on the air for the NFL Network), after the entire feminist and faux-equality crowd shouts “SEX-IS-UM!”  But with his denial of the statement, apparently he was worried.  And I wonder if a White dude could get away with saying a comment like this.  Probably not.  Or he’d have to make a year’s worth of community service appearances at La Lech League as repentance. But I’m more interested in–and concerned with–the fact that Sanders, like many other former pro athletes, including Jalen Rose, is opening a charter school in Texas, the Prime Prep Academy, run by his PrimeTime Association.  I wondered what he’ll teach the kids there.  I like Sanders as an athlete and commentator, but that’s it. And I gotta wonder about him as an educator, just as I wonder about the Jalen Rose Academy.   Look which party supports him and which opposes this: Read the rest of this entry »