Shifty Shifting Our changeable attorney general doesn’t do law; he does politics ANDREW C. McCARTHY ‘This,†said Eric Holder, “is almost a ‘Trust me’ thing.†The attorney general of the United States was trying to reassure Alice Hoagland, whose 31-year-old son, Mark Bingham, lost his life with the other heroic passengers who wrested control of […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MGU3YTFlZGE1ZTNiOTQ1OTU2MTBhNTdlMjc0YzRhZWU= Resetting the Reset Button Obama wanted to set our diplomacy on a new track. And that’s just what he has done. By Victor Davis Hanson After ten months of “Bush did it†diplomacy, the Obama administration needs to reset its reset button. EUROPE On substantial issues, relations with Europe have not improved. The governments […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1157/What-If-We-Had-Fought-the-Nazis-the-Way-We-Are-Fighting-the-Taliban.aspx What If We Had Fought the Nazis the Way We Are Fighting the Taliban? Written by: Diana West In refining and repacking (for size) some of the “How Important Is Marjeh?” material for this week’s column, I came to a new definition of “counterinsurgency” (below). It’s worth emphasizing how very important our understanding of […]
Andrew C. McCarthy NR Contributing Editor December 04, 2009, 4:00 a.m. Alinsky Does Afghanistan Obama’s radical inspiration would have loved his speech on the war. If there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.†Yes, the speech was also internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally flawed assumptions about […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4931/pub_detail.aspExclusive: Minarets are Symbols of Bigotry Dr. Sami Alrabaa In a national referendum last Sunday (November 29, 2009), the Swiss people voted in favor of a ban on the construction of minarets all over Switzerland. A majority of more than 57 percent approved of the ban. Twenty-two of the country’s 26 cantons voted in favor […]
Finishing the Fight?Tim Wilsonhttp://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4932/pub_detail.asp “As commander-in-chief, I will have no greater priority than taking out these terrorists who threaten America, and finishing the job against the Taliban,” and “…our first priority has to be finishing the fight against Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan…” then-Senator Barak Obama, August 19th, 2008 “…as Commander-in-Chief, I […]
Exclusive: Soldiers of Allah – Preying on Innocent Targets in Their Quest for Jihad Renee Taylor http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.4933/pub_detail.asp The massacre of four police officers in Lakewood, Washington, by Maurice Clemmons, comes less than six months after Arkansas experienced the horrific drive-by shooting that killed one soldier and wounded another in front of an Army recruiting center […]
West Point “Days of Rageâ€: Speaking Lies to Power 2009 December 3 by Jeanette Pryor http://newsrealblog.com/2009/12/03/west-point-days-of-rage-speaking-lies-to-power/  In 1969 a brilliant law student stood in a park in Chicago and gave a speech about Vietnam. Her friends burned flags and hurled obscenities at the U.S. Military. The United States fell prey to this Marxist propaganda, and […]
The FBI Bungles On Terror Once Again New York Post December 4, 2009 Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, is now available for pre-order from Amazon. RSK by Gabriel Schoenfeld The FBI’s failure to see clear warning signs in the Fort Hood case revives the question of whether it’s up […]
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/01/climategate-scandal-science-obama-opinions-columnists-shikha-dalmia.html Beyond Copenhagen Cringing Over Climategate Shikha Dalmia, “Science and scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my administration on a wide range of issues, including … mitigation of climate change,” President Barack Obama declared in a not-so-subtle dig at his predecessor soon after assuming office. “The public must be able to trust the […]
