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Joel Mowbray: Lucky for How Long? Obama Needs to Lead Fight Against Radical Islam
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Lucky for How Long? Obama Needs to Lead Fight Against Radical Islam
by Joel Mowbray
Because of smoke and “pop, pop, pop” noises coming from the Nissan Pathfinder parked in the heart of Times Square, alert street vendors knew to flag down a police officer, averting catastrophe.
While the celebration that has ensued is understandable, the [...]
Michelle Malkin: Corruptocrat Eric Holder’s National Security Cover-Up
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Corruptocrat Eric Holder’s National Security Cover-Up
by Michelle Malkin
The White House wants to play Transparency Olympics with the Tea Party movement. President Obama’s Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin dared Tea Party activists and conservatives last week to “push the administration to make its policies more open” and make it a “political competition … [...]
Thomas Sowell: Playing Freedom Cheap
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Playing Freedom Cheap
by Thomas Sowell
If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever increasing ways that [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Soft on Terror
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Soft on Terror
by Charles Krauthammer
The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came [...]
Thomas Sowell: “Notional” Security
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“Notional” Security
by Thomas Sowell
The latest “screw-up” that let a man with explosives get on a plane on Christmas day is only part of a larger laxness and irresponsibility when it comes to national security. This administration pays lip service to national security and gives out with a lot of rhetorical notions that makes [...]
Austin Hill: What I Saw At the Napolitano “Revolution”
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What I Saw At the Napolitano “Revolution”
by Austin Hill
Two terrorist attacks on American soil within les s than sixty days. Administration officials declare that “the system worked” after the Christmas day attack, only to be contradicted by the President days later. The President notes on December 29th that the Christmas day attack [...]
Jillian Bandes: Gitmo Closure, Terrorist “Rehab” Take Hits
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Gitmo Closure, Terrorist “Rehab” Take Hits
by Jillian Bandes
The White House’s decision to stop the transfers of Guantanamo Bay detainees back to their home base in Yemen jeopardizes President Obama’s executive order – and campaign promise – to close the controversial prison facility.
The decision also brings into question Attorney General Eric Holder’s multiple [...]
Charles Krauthammer: War? What War?
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War? What War?
by Charles Krauthammer
Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.” The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber [...]
Michelle Malkin: Obama Brings the Gitmolympics Home
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Obama Brings the Gitmolympics Home
by Michelle Malkin
President Obama’s hometown cronies lost their bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to the Windy City. But this week they got a consolation prize: the Gitmolympics. On Tuesday, the White House went public with its official plans to purchase the Thomson Correctional Facility from financially strapped [...]
Mona Charen: Why Won’t We Face Iran’s Evil?
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Why Won’t We Face Iran’s Evil?
by Mona Charen
When tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets last spring and braved the most brutal repression the regime could inflict, Michael Ledeen was the least surprised man in Washington. In season and out, Ledeen has chronicled the profound weakness of the mullahocracy and its [...]