Has the world fallen out of love with Obama?
Mort Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of US News and World report writes a blistering piece that certainly seems to indicate that’s the case. Zuckerman says the world sees Obama as “incompetent and amateur”...
View ArticleGuantanamo’s lesson for the Obama administration
The New York Times tells us that closing the Guantanamo facility has "faded as a priority." The once adamant insistence by candidate and later President Obama that the facility must be closed to erase...
View ArticleA Mosque Too Far?
This post, in its original form, was previously posted at the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, August 11, 2010. The following post has been updated for today. Plans to build an Islamic cultural center...
View ArticleTaliban attack in US imminent?
There’s apparently corroborated intelligence which says there’s a Pakistani Taliban operative within the US preparing to stage an attack similar to the Times Square plot that failed some months ago. I...
View ArticleIf radical Islamic bombers ever become competent, the West could have a problem
Some wackado Islamic radical blew himself up in Stockholm Sweden. He was the only fatality although he injured two others and now has a nation in the grip of fear. Of course my title is simply a...
View ArticleEric Holder acknowledges homegrown threat but can’t bring himself to name it
Seriously, this sort of nonsense has to stop: "What I am trying to do in this interview is to make people aware of the fact that the threat is real, the threat is different, the threat is constant," he...
View ArticleIs Gitmo really a jihadist recruiting tool?
That’s certainly been one of the major reasons that candidate and then President Obama has cited for closing the facility. But the Weekly Standard did an analysis of some 34 al Qaeda messages and found...
View ArticleIED found on Texas bridge
An ominous sign of the times I’m afraid. A short blurb from a Texas TV station’s website: Police say a passerby on the southbound side of Highway 77 noticed what looked like a grenade near the FM 1732...
View ArticleWhat is the “value” of bin Laden’s death?
Someone ask me that and it set me to thinking. I’ve concluded that there is (and was) more value in his death than if we’d taken him alive. Let me expand on that. As we all know, he’d been holed up...
View ArticleEgyptian Muslim Brotherhood mourns bin Laden
Perhaps it is becoming clearer to even those in deep denial that that the Muslim Brotherhood is "moderate" only if the term is redefined into meaninglessness. The death of Osama bin Laden provides...
View ArticleReason 2 why it is better we killed OBL than captured him
Short version? Two words: Eric Holder. Or one word if you prefer: circus. Here’s Sen. Jeff Sessions questioning Holder yesterday trying to get a little clarity on a particular subject, i.e. if there...
View ArticleBush built the “gun” that killed Osama, Obama just pulled the trigger
Sometimes something is written which has you shaking your head in both wonder and disgust as you read it. Michael Hirsh manages that in his National Journal article entitled “Obama’s War” where he...
View ArticleHamas calls Greek stop of US blockade runner “inhumane”– Israel on “Specially...
In the world of overwrought spin and propaganda we find a premiere example of the genre from Hamas: The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Friday denounced Greece after its coastguard intercepted a...
View ArticleTerrorists bomb government building in Oslo, Norway (update)
This should be interesting to watch unfold, given the propensity of Europe to pretend it hasn’t a problem regarding terrorism (i.e they’re much more inclined toward the "lawfare" model and thinking of...
View ArticleStill plotting after all these years
And we still try to deny the source of the terror. What am I talking about, you ask? A Massachusetts man who was plotting to use explosives and radio controlled aircraft was arrested yesterday by the...
View ArticleEgyptian Muslim Brotherhood: “Hamas is our role model”
I guess some people have to have a whack over the head with a clue bat before they begin to realize that Egypt is headed down an Islamist path with a military twist: Gaza’s Hamas premier was in Egypt...
View ArticleIs really all about an anti-Islamic film?
Oh, wait … Yemen too? Yup, that “Arab Spring” thing is sure a positive for the US. Says the NY Times: Turmoil in the Arab world linked to an American-made video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad spread...
View ArticleBut not until AFTER the election …
That’s when, if he wins, Obama promises to be “more flexible”: The Obama administration is weighing the release of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the spiritual adviser to the 1993 World Trade Center...
View Article“The Taliban is on the inside of the building”
That’s an amazing quote. Jake Tapper, who has done a pretty fair job of chasing the Benghazi debacle through the denials of the administration, reports on the Congressional hearings held yesterday...
View ArticleBenghazi emails leaked
Reuters is reporting tonight that, "Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11...
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