There’s been a good amount of reaction to the blog post put up by Paul Krugman at the NY Times today. There’s been less reaction to the story that’s linked below Krugman’s on memorandum as I write: A group of Muslim protesters set fire to an American flag outside the US embassy in London during …
Another conficting account from Osama bin Ladin SEAL raid
From the Associated Press today: “The decision to launch on that particular moonless night in May came largely because too many American officials had been briefed on the plan. U.S. officials feared if it leaked to the press, bin Laden would disappear for another decade.” From President Obama’s appearance on 60 Minutes on Sunday, May …
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Michael Mukasey on the “Christmas Day bomber”
Michael Mukasey has a good article today in the Washington Post on the Obama administration’s handling of the “Christmas Day bomber”, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, debunking many of the disingenuous talking points coming from the administration.. Contrary to what the White House homeland security adviser and the attorney general have suggested, if not said outright, not …
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Department of No Planned Security
Via Yahoo News: U.S. authorities told The Associated Press that the suspect came to the attention of intelligence officials in November when his father went to the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, to express concerns about his son. One government official said the father did not have any specific information that would put his son …
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There is “no suggestion” Janet Napolitano is competent to head DHS
Via Politico, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up an Amsterdam-Detroit airline flight Christmas Day demonstrated that “the system worked.” … Napolitano added that there was “no suggestion that [the suspect] was improperly screened.” Really? No suggestion? No suggestion at all? The fact that a terrorist …
Racism! they projected – now the AP plays the race card
We noted it when the slimy Time magazine blog a couple of weeks ago accused the McCain campaign of racism when they showed Barack Obama in an ad next to crooked former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin “Heckuva Job, Frankie!” Raines who happens to be a black man. We said then, “At this rate, pretty soon …
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New attack ad ties Obama to terrorist Ayers…
… and the new ad is from the Obama campaign! The ad begins: “With all our problems, why is John McCain talking about the 60s, trying to link Barack Obama to radical Bill Ayers,” the Obama ad states. “McCain knows Obama denounced Ayers crimes, committed when Obama was just 8 years old.” Good question (leaving …
Democrats OUTRAGED! by President’s anti-appeasement comments
It’s quite funny to watch the Democrats sputtering in phony outrage over the president’s comments to the Israeli Knesset about the dangers of trying to appease our jihadist enemies. There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain their words away. This is natural. But it …
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Pentagon Report Documents Iraq – al Qaeda Connections…
…and the corrupt and/or incompetent DeMSM grossly misrepresent its findings – The headline from ABC News: “Report Shows No Link Between Saddam and al Qaeda” From the NY Times: “Oh, By the Way, There Was No Al Qaeda Link” From CNN: “The U.S. military’s first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq …
United Nations condemns Israel for self defense
From the AP (via Yahoo News): The U.N. Security Council issued a media statement early Sunday condemning the escalation of fighting in southern Israel and Gaza and urging Israelis and Palestinians “to immediately cease all acts of violence.” So after the Palestinians rain down thousands of missiles into Israeli neighborhoods month after month, as soon …
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They were for waterboarding before they were against it
The Washington Post reports today, leading Democrats were briefed back in September 2002 about the CIA’s interrogation program, including waterboarding, and raised no objections then. In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. …
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Waterboarding: Context is key
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Rich Lowry has a good column on the waterboarding controversy, illustrating the Democrats’ posturing and doubletalk. A couple of points worth emphasizing: Reasonable people can consider waterboarding torture, defined by federal law as an act “specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering.” Obviously if waterboarding weren’t so horrifying, it wouldn’t break …
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