Moisés Naím: What Mitt Romney could learn from Henrique Capriles

From FT:
Mitt Romney is the presidential candidate of one of the world’s oldest and most powerful political machines. Henrique Capriles is the candidate of an ad hoc and inchoate amalgam of Venezuelan political groups. Yet confounding expectations, Mr Capriles has run a flawless campaign and on Sunday will confront Chavez with the strongest challenge he has ever faced at the polls. In contrast, Romney’s campaign, lavishly funded and full of [...]

Jim Rogers’ Most Dire Warning, “Please Get Worried”

Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In his most serious demeanor of recent memory, Jim Rogers of Roger Holdings said the U.S. economy is in for a very rough sledding akin to other major crises since the beginning of the republic.  In fact, the 69-year-old veteran of the commodities markets said even he is “worried.”

When asked by Newsmax’s Kathleen Walter about the state of the U.S. economy, Rogers said he’s not particularly concerned about 2012; [...]

Was pilot on doomed Air France jet with female off-duty flight attendant when disaster struck?

The captain in charge of the Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 may have been with a woman when the plane ran into trouble, it has emerged.

Captain Marc Dubois took more than a minute to return to the cockpit of Air France flight 447 after his co-pilots lost control of the plane during a severe thunderstorm.

What delayed the captain has never been revealed, but two [...]

Jim Rogers’ Most Dire Warning, “Please Get Worried”

Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: In his most serious demeanor of recent memory, Jim Rogers of Roger Holdings said the U.S. economy is in for a very rough sledding akin to other major crises since the beginning of the republic.  In fact, the 69-year-old veteran of the commodities markets said even he is “worried.”

When asked by Newsmax’s Kathleen Walter about the state of the U.S. economy, Rogers said he’s not particularly concerned about 2012; [...]

TSA In “Obscene” Grope Down Of Senior Citizen

Screeners touched grandmother’s breasts

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, June 5, 2012

TSA agents have once again been accused of conducting a strip-search on an elderly traveler after airport screeners carried out an “obscene” pat down on a 73-year-old grandmother during which they touched her breasts.

The incident occurred on Saturday at at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport.

According to Eli Anselmany, TSA workers lifted his mother’s shirt in the middle of a public security [...]

Iraq War Vet of 3 Tours Shot Dead — Outside CA Party

LANCASTER (CBS) — A 30-year-old veteran who served three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan was shot to death Saturday in Lancaster, sheriff’s officials said.

Nathen Taylor’s family is grieving and in disbelief.

The shooting in the 700 block of West Avenue H-7 occurred around 12:10 a.m., said Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

Taylor, according to his brother Patrick, had just left a party because he didn’t like to be [...]

TSA Treats 95-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Veteran Like a “Terrorist,” $300 Goes Missing

Another day, another TSA travel nightmare

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Wheelchair-bound 95-year-old veteran Omer Petti and his 85-year-old partner Madge Woodward were treated like terrorists by TSA agents at San Diego International airport, ostensibly so TSA workers could separate them from $300 dollars in cash which subsequently went missing.

“Can you imagine an 85-year-old lady and 95-year-old retired Air Force Major in wheelchairs being treated like terrorists?” Petti asked the [...]

Orders for Ron Paul’s Volunteers: Do Shave, Don’t Tweet

via CNBC:

DES MOINES — Ron Paul’s college-aged volunteer army — a core of the powerful ground organization that is the envy of rivals — is descending on Iowa from around the nation to coax people to the state’s Republican caucuses as he seeks to pull off what only months ago seemed like an unthinkable victory here on Tuesday.

AP

Four years after young people flocked to the state to help propel the [...]

Cops bust 87-year-old man after finding $3 million worth of cocaine in vehicle

Man, 87, Arrested in Michigan with 104 Bricks of Cocaine in Vehicle: MyFoxDETROIT.com

(WJBK) – An 87-year-old veteran was arrested last week for trafficking more 228 pounds of cocaine.

Leo Sharp was pulled over on I-94 near Chelsea on Friday for improper lane use. According to records, a state trooper asked Sharp for permission to search his car, but Sharp refused. A drug sniffing dog was called to the scene [...]