Looking Forward to Conservative Renewal CPAC 2013

Looking forward to attending CPAC once again this year. Excited that my daughter expressed an interest in attending so she will be joining me.

It is a wonderful and amazing gathering of a Conservatives who have the opportunity to discuss all manner of topics with other like-minded people and to listen to the foremost Conservative thinkers of our time.

I was inspired to attend when I heard Rush Limbaugh's keynote speech a few years back. And I was privileged to see the wonderful Andrew Breitbart up close and personal as he deftly fended off yet another ambush attack by a radical left-leaner.

Here is the video I captured of Andrew in action. We miss you Andrew!

Andrew Breitbart In Action

National Security

I woke up this morning to the delightful and very welcome news that the evil, soul-less creature that [allegedly] abandoned the VBIED (vehicle borne IED) SUV laden with propane tanks and other incendiary material with the single intent to kill dozens, if not hundreds, of innocent people in busy Times Square on Saturday was in the custody of authorities.

To what do we owe the failure of this deadly terror plot? Was it due to the stellar national security procedures that we have in place?

Sadly, NO!

Yet again, we owe the fact that we dodged the latest in deadly terrorist bullets and flesh-rending shrapnel to the actions of some everyday people doing some everyday things - the sensible, right things - when they "saw something and said something" and alerted the authorities. And the authorities acted accordingly to the life-saving benefit of all. God bless them all!

Even more sadly, we owe it to the total incompetence of the person that hoped to cause murderous mayhem in my New York. The device simply did not detonate as intended.

Just like the Christmas Day crotch-bomber and the shoe-bomber, so did little 30-year old Faizel encounter the same embarassing "failure to launch" result.

The news that the perpetrator was not of the "home-grown" strain no doubt dismayed many in the lamestream media, including perhaps some of the most ardent liberals like Bob Beckel and New York's own Gerald Nadler along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg who voluntarily gushed his opinion that it could be the work of "an American disgruntled with the Health Care bill" that was recently passed .

The MSM news is scrambling to determine the REASON why this man would do such a thing, noting that the home belonging to the suspect was in foreclosure as a result of default on his mortgage payments.  Do I CARE about the reason that this pathetic, very sick man decided he would try and kill our fellow Americans? NO! I couldn't care less.

In the humble opinion of this long-time single mother of seven Americans, we deserve better than settling for the fact that our best defense against terror is that the FIDIOTS that orchestrate such mayhem are totally incompetent? I daresay that their incompetency is only rivaled by that of those who are supposed to be protecting us.  It's complicated to be sure but for the amount of money we pay for national security we are certainly not getting even a fraction of our hard-earned money's worth.

We were safe last night because of the actions of every day people and the NYPD and not because of our national security policies but IN SPITE OF them.

A Miracle for NEW YORK!

A US Airways flight with 148 passengers and 5 crew members crashed into the Hudson River this afternoon - some injuries but looks like all were saved.

God bless the pilot and crew, the NYC firefighters and emergency personnel, the NY Waterways ferry operators, commuters and everyone else that assisted with this amazing rescue effort.

One airline passenger was asked by a reporter how many minutes passed between the moment that the engine exploded and the plane crashed into the water.

He said he wasn't sure but it was exactly ten "Hail Marys".