http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517426 http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517426 Jailhouse Crock Detainees: On the same day three inmates break out of an Illinois prison, a state legislative panel approves selling another Illinois prison to the feds to house former Gitmo detainees. What is wrong with this picture? Only two weeks after a failed al-Qaida attempt to bomb a plane bound for Detroit, […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517422 Spying On Icebergs? Climate Change: We can’t stop terrorists from boarding planes with explosive undies, but the CIA has assets sufficient to monitor Arctic ice and look for signs of global warming? Is al-Qaida recruiting polar bears? One wouldn’t think that the increasing polar bear population and the increasing rate of recidivism of former […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517421 Poverty Canard Terrorism: Hillary Clinton, in extolling the role of development aid, repeats the old saw about poverty breeding terrorism. Nonsense. The new attacks haven’t been about living standards.We suspect Clinton was just trying to pump up the U.S. Agency for International Development mission and make the bureaucrats — like newly sworn-in USAID administrator […]
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517407 Closing Gitmo: The President’s Naive Fixation By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMERPosted 01/07/2010 06:29 PM ET View Enlarged Image On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The previous day, the State Department announced that his visa had been revoked. The system […]
Connecting The Dots Claudia Rosett, 01.07.10, Forbes President Barack Obama has just denounced the “screw up” in which his own intelligence team had the information to nab the Christmas Day underwear bomber but “failed to connect those dots.” But what about Obama himself? He is president of a country against which jihadis desiring an Islamic […]
