Bush Did It! And, Really, Bush Did It! And Bush Really Did It! Posted By Victor Davis Hanson That Damn Guantanamo! Obama gave a rather incredible press conference about his review of security lapses. When he evoked Guantanamo, the president all at once (“make no mistake about itâ€) (a) promised to close it, (b) promised […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703436504574639930433024734.html#printMode One ‘Allegedly’ Too Many In her raw and disastrous way, Janet Napolitano is revealing. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Shocking though it was, the Christmas Day terror attempt by a 23-year-old Nigerian has only hardened Americans’ awareness that they confront an implacable enemy in a war whose end is nowhere in sight. It is a hard-won […]
I recently posted an A.P. story by Amy Teibel calling Jerusalem “disputed territory”…an e-pal responded…rsk  FROM STEVE STEIN….  My argument is Israel has a legal basis to settle its population in East Jerusalem as well as other places in the so-called “West Bank. In short, I believe Israel’s claim to the area is stronger than […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704842604574642184130409874.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion#printMode Why Drug ‘Reimportation’ Won’t Die The drug industry made a foolish bet in supporting health reform. By GILBERT ROSS As a threat to our nation’s security, allowing imported drugs into our pharmacies ranks just below terrorism. Yet this idea refuses to die. Why is drug importation (and its twin the reimportation of American drugs […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704842604574642151948743022.html#printMode By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY There was much to celebrate in the providential combination of an incompetent terrorist and surpassingly brave passengers and crew who saved 288 people aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day. There is a lot less to applaud in the official reaction. Well-deserved mockery has already been heaped on the […]
In sub-Saharan Africa, radical Islam takes hold Helen Vesperini http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/07/radical-islam-takes-hold//print/ NAIROBI, Kenya | Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Shebab fighting for the control of Somalia, or Nigeria’s homegrown sects — radical Islam is taking hold in sub-Saharan Africa, albeit in many varied forms. The groups in question all claim to be inspired by […]
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100021540/just-who-will-barack-obama-fire-for-abdulmutallab-fiasco/ Toby Harnden http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100021540/just-who-will-barack-obama-fire-for-abdulmutallab-fiasco/ Toby Harnden is the Daily Telegraph’s US Editor, based in Washington DC. Just who will Barack Obama fire for the Abdulmutallab fiasco? Barack Obama is angry. Very angry, apparently. The intelligence agencies “screwed up†(White House aides were eager to quote him as saying this inside his big meeting). There was […]
Detroit attack: US border guards knew alleged terrorist was on flight US border officials were aware that an alleged extremist was on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day and were ready to question him on landing, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6944598/Detroit-attack-US-border-guards-knew-alleged-terrorist-was-on-flight.html By Alex Spillius in Washington 07 Jan 2010 Umar […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NTlmYWY5MWU4OTZmZjE4NTI3ODE1ZTQyODNhZGE4MGU= Enemy Combatants or Criminal Defendants? The right way to treat captured al-Qaeda operatives. By David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey Writing in the New York Times, Michael Kinsley defends treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the al-Qaeda operative who recently tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit) as a criminal defendant rather than […]
Irish probe, Slovak apology after explosives find January 6, 2010 — Updated 0750 GMT (1550 HKT) Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has ordered a probe into the surprise finding of explosives. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Â Slovak authorities say they were conducting test of their country’s airport security measures (CNN) — The head of Slovakia’s border police […]
