On Thursday’s Radio Show…

It’s the best of Alan Colmes. Guests include:

• Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, author of What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception

• Andy Card, former White House Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush

• Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, author of The Test of Our Times: America Under Seige… and How We Can Be Safe Again

• Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele

• Army National Guard Lt. Dan Choi, who served in Iraq for 15 months and faces discharge under …

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Largely Unreported US Attacks On Yemen Preceded Christmas Day Terror Attempt

Largely unreported in the US media, the United States launched two missile attacks on Yemen on Thursday, December 17 (h/t Glenn Greenwald)

Development of the story was left to the circumspect wire services reports that were the more circumspect the closer they were to U.S. centers of power. — Thus AP spoke vaguey of an “unusually heavy assault” in which the U.S. “provided firepower and other aid,” and gave prominence to a statement from a Yemeni Embassy spokesman who “denied the U.S. launched missiles in the attack,” though this denial is not credible given ABC’s report of two U.S. …

On Wednesday’s Radio Show…

• Condemn the president, but not the terrorists?!? Alan responds to Dick Cheney’s latest anti-Obama screed.

• Former CIA Agent Bob Baer joins Alan to examine airport security weaknesses, and to discuss whether new military action would stop Yemen-based terrorists.

• Psychic Jeffrey Wands shares a look ahead at 2010. Plus, YOU can call in for personalized predictions.…

Ted Nugent: Barack Obama Is A Communist Who Should Be Put In Jail

Musical artist and political pundit Ted Nugent opines that Barack Obama should be put in jail for being a communist (h/t RightWingWatch).

The Cat Scratch Fever hitmaker, a fervent Republican, insists America should be ashamed about voting in the Democrat, who took office in January (09).

He tells Royal Flush magazine, “I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that Barack Hussein Obama is a communist.

“(Former Chinese leader) Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.”…

Former CIA Officer Jack Rice: Those Who Argue For Profiling Lazy, Arrogant Or Racist

Former CIA operative Jack Rice says if you’re going to profile you have to include billions of people; everyone in the Middle East; everyone in Nigeria, which is a Christian country, so every Chritian; everyone in Africa. Besides, we want Muslims on our side, who why not act like it?

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Would You Mind The World Seeing You Like This? Welcome To Where The Sun Don’t Shine

O’Hare Airport in Chicago is getting full body scanners, planned before the attempted Christmas day attack.

“It’s an invasion,” said ACLU Spokesman Ed Yonka. “It’s very expensive and is a diversion of resources because someone dropped the ball on a trip from a legitimate person overseas.”

Six of the machines, which are made by L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., are being used for what Transportation Security Administration calls “primary screenings” at six U.S. airports: Albuquerque, N.M.; Las Vegas; Miami; San Francisco; Salt Lake City; and Tulsa, Okla.

This means passengers go through the scans instead of a metal …

Cheney Slams Obama, Not Terrorists

Bad enough the GOP legislators immediately played politics in the wake of the Christmas day bomb threat; now former Vice President Dick Cheney is blasting President Obama as well (h/t Think Progress).

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror” and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

“[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it …

Illinois Senate Wannabe Andy Martin Calls Rival Rep. Mark Kirk “Homosexual”

Andy Martin, seeking the Republican nomination for Roland Burris’s Senate seat, is attacking his rival for the nomination, Congressman Mark Kirk, by calling him a “homosexual.”

Martin, a fringe candidate who pushes the idea that President Obama is a Muslim and even sued the state of Hawaii to produce a ribbon copy of Obama’s birth certificate, has a history of salacious allegations and frivolous lawsuits.

His advertisement asserts that there’s “solid rumor that Mark Kirk is a homosexual” and that he’s part of the “Republican Party homosexual club.”

The Kirk campaign responded with this statement:

“The …

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Alan declares the winners and losers in the partisan blame game over the failed terrorist attack.

• Will new security measures implemented in response to Northwest 253 really make travel safer? Isaac Yeffet, former Director of El Al Israel Airlines security, shares his expertise.

• How low will they go? Alan examines the latest shameless claims of disgraced politicians who throw stones from inside glass houses.…