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“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” ~Samuel Adams

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

A Defensive Buildup in the Gulf
by George Friedman
...In the end, Obama has followed the Bush strategy on Iran — make vague threats, try to build a coalition, hold Israel off with vague promises, protect the Arabian Peninsula, and wait — to the letter. But along with this announcement, we would expect to begin to see a series of articles on the offensive deployment of U.S. forces, as good defensive posture requires a strong offensive option.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

UN Climate Change Panel Based Claims on Student Thesis and Magazine Article
The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming...
Related: Climate Chief was Told of False Glacier Claims Before Copenhagen
Double Standard: Climate Guru Uses Car and Driver to Travel One Mile to Office

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Is America Still Making Men?
by Dennis Prager
...There are any number of reasons American women suffer from depression more than ever before and more than men. It is difficult to believe that one of those reasons is not the very emasculation of men that the movement working in their name helped to bring about. And so, a vicious cycle has commenced -- men stop being men; women become man-like; men retreat even further from their manly role; and women get sadder.

Friday, January 08, 2010

Obama Reneges on Health Care Transparency
by Chip Reid
..."The negotiations are obviously being done in secret and the American people really just want to know what they are trying to hide," said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga...
Video: Eight Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

The Christmas Day Airliner Attack and the Intelligence Process
by George Friedman
...A process that says that in a war against radical Islamists, an elderly visitor from Iceland is as big of a potential threat as a twentysomething from Yemen might satisfy some ideological imperative, but it violates the principle of common sense and blocks the authority and the motivation to act decisively...
Related: DHS Plans to Catch Only One in Four Travelers Committing ‘Major’ Criminal Violations Intelligence Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Saturday, January 02, 2010

The Dimming of a Beacon
by Mark Whitehouse
The 2000s could be termed a lost decade for the U.S. economy. The average American's annual income stood at $39,446 as of October 2009, up only 5.3% in inflation-adjusted terms from the end of the 1990s.That's the slowest growth registered in at least six decades. The average person's net worth fell 13% through September 2009 as stock and home prices plunged. The S&P 500 delivered an inflation-adjusted total return of negative 30% through November 2009...
Counterpoint: Capitalism Fingered as Fiend of the Past Decade

Flying High
by Christopher Hitchens
...Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective punishment of the innocent? The answer to the first question is: Because we can't—or won't. The answer to the second question is: Because we can. The fault here is not just with our endlessly incompetent security services, who give the benefit of the doubt to people who should have been arrested long ago or at least had their visas and travel rights revoked. It is also with a public opinion that sheepishly bleats to be made to "feel safe"...
More: Does Napolitano Think Americans are Morons? Coulter: Could There Possibly be Warning Signs?

Friday, January 01, 2010

Happy New Year

Thursday, December 31, 2009

A Decade of Self-Delusion
by Pat Buchanan
...At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the question is not whether we will preside over the creation of a New World Order, but whether America's decline is irreversible.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Obama Gives Foreign Police New Powers in U.S.
by Bob Unruh
A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United States by exempting them from such drudgery as compliance with the Freedom of Information Act is raising alarm among commentators who say INTERPOL already had most of the same privileges as diplomats...

Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas
Pope's Christmas Message
...We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all kinds of ways, God has to prod us and reach out to us again and again, so that we can manage to escape from the muddle of our thoughts and activities and discover the way that leads to Him...

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Heaven and Nature
by Ross Douthat
...“Avatar” is Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism — a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world...As the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski noted, attributing divinity to the natural world helps “bring God closer to human experience,” while “depriving him of recognizable personal traits.” For anyone who pines for transcendence but recoils at the idea of a demanding Almighty who interferes in human affairs, this is an ideal combination...

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Away With the Manger
by Chuck Norris
...Gone are the days when presidents and most politicians publicly rejoiced in the birth of Christ. Like many of you, I still remember a day -- even in Washington -- when Christ was central to Christmas. It was an America that was far less politically correct, an America that wasn't afraid to stand up for its belief in the babe who was born in Bethlehem...

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Democrats Ensure America Will No Longer Be the Last Best Hope of Earth
by Dennis Prager
...America's uniqueness and greatness has come from a number of sources, two of which are its moral and social value system, which is a unique combination of Enlightenment and Judeo-Christian values, and its emphasis on individual liberty and responsibility...
Related: Obamacare Hazardous to America's Health

Monday, December 07, 2009

Remembering Pearl Harbor

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Hero SEALS Face Rap for Fiend's Bloody Lip
by Ed Robinson
Three Navy SEALs involved in nabbing one of Iraq's most wanted terrorists are reportedly facing criminal charges related to his capture -- all because he claimed he had a bloody lip...

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic
By Gabor Steingart
...In his speech on America's new Afghanistan strategy, Obama tried to speak to both places. It was two speeches in one. That is why it felt so false. Both dreamers and realists were left feeling distraught. The American president doesn't need any opponents at the moment. He's already got himself.

Friday, December 04, 2009

Researcher: NASA Hiding Climate Data
by Stephen Dinan
...NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s...

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Climategate: Why it Matters
by Andrew Orlowski
...The scandal is that science has advanced through anecdote and poorly founded conjecture - and on this slender basis, politicians and institutions lacking vision and confidence (and given the lack of popular support, legitimacy too) have found a cause...
More-- Climategate: The White House Stonewalls with Stupidity

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Setting Up Our Military to Fail
by Ralph Peters
President Obama will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan -- but he'll "begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011." Then why send them? If you're going to tell the Taliban to be patient because we're leaving, what's the point in upping the blood ante? For what will come down to a single year by the time the troops hit the ground? Does Obama really expect to achieve in one year what we haven't been able to do in more than eight?...
Krauthammer: Obama's Afghan Speech Was "Defensive" Morris: Obama Channels Bush Stratfor: Obama's Plan and the Key Battleground

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Left Destroys More than It Creates
by Dennis Prager
...just as there is no left-wing Boy Scouts, there is no Salvation Army built and manned by people with left-wing values. Nor has there ever been a left-wing country as magnanimous, as willing to die for others, as opportunity-giving to people from all over the world, as America, whose greatness comes from its traditional secular values and its Judeo-Christian values...

Monday, November 30, 2009

7 Stories Obama Doesn't Want Told
by John F. Harris
The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on. A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs of faltering...Here are seven storylines Obama needs to worry about.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal
by Derrick Roach
...the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump [in a public dumpster] on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit...

The 'Real' Jobless Rate: 17.5% Of Workers Are Unemployed
by Jeff Cox
As experts debate the potential speed of the US recovery, one figure looms large but is often overlooked: nearly 1 in 5 Americans is either out of work or under-employed...

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Do Hacked E-mails Show Global Warming Fraud?
by Ed Morrissey
...The director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit confirmed that the e-mails are genuine — and Australian publication Investigate and the Australian Herald-Sun report that those e-mails expose a conspiracy to hide detrimental information from the public that argues against global warming...
More: Warmist Conspiracy Exposed? Sen. Inhofe To Call for Investigation
Perspective: Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as Religion Global Warming as the New Religion of First World Urban Elites

Monday, November 23, 2009

Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage
by Gabor Steingart
When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it's not working...
Related-- Stratfor: Sanctions and Strategy

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Travesty in New York
by Charles Krauthammer
...[Khalid Sheik Mohammed] has gratuitously been presented with the greatest propaganda platform imaginable -- a civilian trial in the media capital of the world -- from which to proclaim the glory of jihad and the criminality of infidel America....Holder himself told The Washington Post that the coming New York trial will be "the trial of the century." The last such was the trial of O.J. Simpson.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Deciphering the Mohammed Trial
by George Friedman
...There is a nontrivial possibility that he will be acquitted or have his case thrown out of court, which would be a foreign policy disaster for the United States. Some might view it as a sign of American adherence to the rule of law and be impressed, others might be convinced that Mohammed was not guilty in more than a legal sense and was held unjustly, and others might think the United States has bungled another matter...

Monday, November 16, 2009

The Silver Lining of the Left in Power
by Dennis Prager
...For decades, the left has largely controlled the news media, the arts, the universities and the entertainment media. And vast numbers of Americans have imbibed these leftist messages and the leftist critiques of conservatives. What these Americans have never been able to do is to see what the left would actually do if in power...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Hasan Case: Overt Clues and Tactical Challenges
by Scott Stewart and Fred Burton
...Despite the intelligence reforms put in place after the 9/11 attacks, the U.S. government still faces large obstacles when it comes to sharing intelligence information with law enforcement personnel...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Happy Veterans Day

Monday, November 09, 2009

Intimidated Americans Claim Not To Know Hasan's Motives
by Dennis Prager
...Americans are worried by the fact that there are Muslim Americans whose beliefs compel them to murder non-Muslim Americans. But what is even more worrisome is that American Muslim groups (and their supporters on the left) deny this.
More: The Hasanity Defense CIA Aware Ft. Hood Shooter Tried To Contact Terrorists

Friday, November 06, 2009

Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How'
by Scott Stewart and Fred Burton
...The threat posed by grassroots operatives, and the difficulty identifying them, highlight the need for counterterrorism programs to adopt a proactive, protective intelligence approach to the problem -- an approach that focuses on "the how" of militant attacks instead of just "the who"...

Thursday, November 05, 2009

11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama
by John Nolte
...Young captive minds, easily influenced, eager for direction, enlisted into a cult of personality focused on an individual who, other than being the first black president, has yet to accomplish anything of significance...

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up
by Michelle Malkin
...how long before they target ordinary citizens who call in to complain about the government's systemic refusal to enforce federal sanctions against illegal alien employers or the bloody consequences of lax deportation policies?...