Blake Fleetwood

As we approach the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, imagine this scenario:

Five Navy Seals are left behind in Abbottabad, Pakistan. They are taken into custody, tried as spies in Pakistan courts and sentenced to "life in prison" and are still locked...

Bird-watching luxury cruise passengers with high power binoculars spotted a fishing boat in distress and tried desperately to alert the captain of the Star Princess, owned by Carnival, of Concordia fame.

But the Princess, with a full complement of 2,500 "newlywed, overfed and nearly dead" well heeled luxury passengers sailed...

When Pope Benedict XVI meets with Raul and Fidel Castro this week, he should urge Cuba to release American Alan Gross from the remainder of his harsh 15 year prison term. Gross was arrested two years ago for smuggling illegal cell phones and other technology to Cuba's small Jewish community.

These days, even the most infrequent fliers try to squeeze as many miles as they can out of each trip, in the hopes of one day achieving what has become the holy grail of air travel: the free flight.

But while consumers are dutifully stacking miles and points, the...

The holy grail of finding an inexpensive, truthful price for an airline tickets was woefully illustrated in a Wall Street Journal piece last week that found 8 different prices on 14 different websites for a simple trip from Phoenix to Philadelphia.

As most flyers already know,...

Michael O'Leary, the cavalier leader of European discount air carrier Ryanair, is garnering worldwide press, yet again, for his plans to offer in-flight porn via handheld devices on its flights.
The low-fare airline, the largest in Europe, carrying more than 7 million passengers per...

Despite our desperate need for jobs, 16 million unemployed, the U.S. is ignoring a surefire way to create 1.3 million good, no-cost jobs and add $390 billion to U.S. exports in the next decade.

The world travel market grew by 60 million annual visitors in the last decade --...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is investigating a number of airlines because they are not reporting fees prominently on their Web pages as required by a new rule that took effect on August 23 this year.

Bill Mosley, a DOT spokesman confirmed the investigation, but said that he could...

No question about it that 9/11 was an atrocious horror and the first responders were heroes.

But what happened after 9/11 was perhaps a greater horror. 9/11 was hijacked by a right-wing cabal, worried about an Israel-Arab conflict.

I thought I was alone in...

"Romneycare" versus "Perrycare"

Rick Perry is going around the country promising to dismantle President Obama's health care reform... and fiercely attacking Mitt Romney for putting through a 2006 health care reform in Massachusetts, which was remarkably similar to Obama's new reforms. Even Romney, in the sights of the Tea...

It's about to get ugly for anyone visiting or living on the East Coast because the storm is huge and powerful. It'll bring the big winds, plenty of rain, coastal surges.

The problem now is power. The soft ground in the East has already been saturated by heavy rains this...

According the a new report in this week's New Yorker, there was never any intention of capturing Osama Bin Laden. The point was to kill him, pure and simple.

This contradicted the assertions of the White House at the time that killing Osama was a split-second...

Ok, so it isn't on par with Judith Miller putting bogus nuclear weapons in Iraq in The New York Times, but today's front page of the Wall Street Journal's Metro section had a center picture with a headline reading: "Standoff in the Bronx."

One problem is that the Flatlands is...

The one thing Bin Laden was most afraid of was to become a captive of U.S. solders.

For a long time, Osama must have been thinking about the moment ... when the Americans would come ....

He would be...

Thirty years ago in May 1981, American Airlines started its successful Frequent Flyer program in secret. They didn't advertise and the plan's author admitted "we didn't want the great unwashed to be a part of it." They deliberately cobbled together a complicated new class system to pay off 150,000 of...

Obama didn't want to intervene in Libya. Hillary, Samantha Power, and the other women in his administration were screaming publicly about the ongoing slaughter... the bloodbath.

Remember Rwanda!

Gaddafi bragged,"We will have no mercy."

But low profile Obama waited. This reluctant warrior was not going in alone. No way....

2010 was a very good year for the airline industry. They made grand strides -- finessing and sticking creative fees to consumers for innumerable services that used to be free. What a ludicrous notion it is, that when you call to buy an airline ticket, you have to pay a...

Not a year goes by when we don't hear nightmarish spring break stories: testosterone driven showoffs taking headers off of balconies, tipsy girls getting raped or abducted, coeds behaving badly on film. This deadly combination of hormones...

At the age of three-and-a-half, I came to this country on a boat from Santiago, Chile. I didn't make the decision to come; I liked it in South American surrounded by my adoring grandparents and a loving extended family.

But my parents decided to bring me and my baby...

Who is going to win in November? Follow the Latino Vote.

50 million Hispanics, America's largest minority, (disclosure I emigrated from Chile at age 4) are critical voters in the November election next week. Latinos are 9% of the eligible voters and 16% of the population.

But will they...