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Yesterday, Dubya showed up to speak with business folks in Erie, PA, and defended himself on EITs (enhanced interrogation techniques) and his general policy in the War on Terror… um, sorry, that’s Overseas Contingency Operations (gag!). Despite the headlines Bush indicated that he wasn’t going to criticize Obama, although he did get in a few jabs on those [...]
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Ha! That’s a funny title since transparent democracy is quite foreign the closer one gets to the reins of power in Iran where a theocratic oligarchy tells their puppet (still Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) what to say and how to act. Putting Mahmoud’s opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in power would have been like merely changing the label but [...]
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In the continued quest by the Obama Administration to cater to terrorists, dictators, and thugs, a new policy has been implemented by the Justice Department via the FBI which requires that any high-value terrorists captured in Afghanistan be Mirandized. For any lawyer, cop, or fan of Law & Order, the Miranda warning is read to [...]
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In 2007, an Army Captain was dismissed from the US military for violating the Army’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy regarding gays in the military. That captain, James Pietrangelo II, and 11 other members of the service brought a lawsuit because they don’t believe the decades-old policy is constitutionally sound. Subsequently, their cases were thrown out by the federal [...]
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Sara Carter from the Washington Times has unearthed this story about an al Qaeda recruiter speaking plainly about a plan to sneak anthrax or some other biological agent into America through tunnels between the US and Mexico and dispersing it in populated areas, including even on the White House lawn. Then, even before entering America, al Qaeda [...]
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Our Leader has spoken (fast-forward to 2:26 for this money-quote, then his naivety on display thereafter):
“Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations…”
Has anyone informed the Beneficent One that we tried this same appeasement approach to a belligerent nation seeking nuclear “energy” in the past? That would have been North Korea! But at least when NK was bamboozling [...]
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After an admittedly few off-weeks from my favorite comedian, Steven Crowder returned to form with his latest video. The target in this clip: Nancy Pelosi.
Happy Ryan?
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Some say the definition of insanity is to try the same thing repeatedly expecting different results. That just about sums up the cumulative foreign policy of the last three administrations on dealing with North Korea. On Sunday, North Korea announced that it had conducted a successful nuclear test (which the available data confirms), and also [...]
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I’ve liked Dick Cheney since the summer of 2000. He was going to be a steady hand at Veep, had no ambition to be the top dog, so he decided to shoot from the hip and be the Administration’s authoritative voice on security issues. He beat the heck out of Joe Lieberman in the 2000 [...]
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Wow.
It’s been a heck of a ride! Since mid-January the latest season of 24 has been a Monday night ritual that has never let me down! I didn’t like the way Season 6 ended (a bit anti-climactic) and was put-off by the notion of where we go after the WMD actually goes off!
Well, Season 7 [...]
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This just gets better from the San Francisco Treat! Internal polling data has to be devastating. Word around the watercooler ain’t that nice!
It’s very very hard to follow the House Speaker’s memory and recent statements. Sometimes she “misremembers” this and that, sometimes she throws the CIA under the bus to cover herself (as a rule, don’t upset [...]
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I completely agree with Obama’s decision to reverse his earlier decision on making hundreds of potential Abu Graib-like photos available to the public. They would do no good during wartime except to foment more enemies, alienate those we’ve made progress with, and make our soldiers more appetizing targets for moderate jihadists (you know, those that [...]
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An important story worth watching last week was that of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and when she knew about the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) used on Gitmo detainees.
At first, she knew nothing about the EITs being used until the general public did: “We were not, I repeat, we were not told that waterboarding or any [...]
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Here’s a video of a US soldier saying to a group of Iraqi policeman everything America needs to say at this stage of the game:
WARNING: Profanities directed at lazy Iraqi policemen
Where does this soldier’s outburst come from?
The Iraqi Security Force is becoming a great group of fighters. They are the Iraqi Army and are well-trained, [...]
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We are traveling down a very dangerous road. President Obama has indicated that actions taken during a time of grave crisis in our nation’s history are up for selective legal prosecution. The dangerous precedent would be this — criminalizing the decisions of one administration once another party assumes control.
Think of our history to this point: Jefferson did not [...]
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Dick Cheney has come out swinging against Obama’s selective release of memos detailing the interrogation techniques the CIA used against terrorists during the Bush administration. Cheney, speaking to Sean Hannity in an interview to be aired later tonight, called for a release of all the memos showing the effectiveness of the techniques and the intelligence [...]
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Water-boarding, bugs, leashes, loud music, diapers, sleep deprivation: all techniques used in the interrogation of really bad people at Club Gitmo. All of them were used with the intent not to do permanent harm, but to leave that impression with the prisoner; hence, skirting any potential claims of torture from a legal stand-point — the [...]
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Well, I was close — I thought the well-placed snipers would take all four of the pirates out, but only three got to meet their Creator today. The fourth one, who left the lifeboat hours earlier to negotiate, is in custody ready to get Mirandized and receive ACLU/Amnesty International lawyers who are undoubtedly at the ready to get him off in [...]
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To paraphrase Rush from yesterday, America’s reaction to the taking of Captain Richard Phillips Wednesday by Somali pirates is the foreign policy equivalent of voting “Present.”
Now, due to the US waffling and inaction the four Somali pirates on a powerless lifeboat are demanding $2 million for Phillips while a second ship has been hijacked by other pirates. This [...]
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refuses to use the word terrorism in her recent speeches, inferring terrorist attacks are merely ”man-caused disasters.” As Obama’s administration has put more effort declaring war on semantics rather than continuing to kill and detain terrorists, we’re moving beyond a pre-9/11 mindset in my opinion, we’re just being ridiculous, asking for something [...]
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Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that some Gitmo detainees will end up being released, free as a bird, within the boarders of the United States. Two months ago, when Obama signed the executive order to close Club Gitmo, making us a nation less safe, people were concerned about former Gitmo detainees in federal prisons [...]
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Ron Silver and Dennis Miller are two Hollywood figures that just seemed to get it after 9/11. While Dennis Miller still graces the airwaves today with his quirky uber-lexiconic spurts, actor Ron Silver died Sunday at the age of 62, as Annie C says in her column this week, “an intellectual trapped in an actor’s [...]
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I’ve long argued that the American left has attempted to redefine the word “torture” in order to create an false impression that President Bush approved the use of actual torture against America’s enemies. In his latest video, Steven Crowder makes the same point in a much funnier way.
This guy’s humor never fails. SNL should take [...]
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Nicolas Sarkozy plans to move France back into the decision-making core of the NATO alliance after forty three years of his country’s passive membership. The move is being met with some criticism from Sarkozy’s left-wing critics in France and elsewhere, but Sarkozy has assured those critics that the move would not undermine French independence. Americans [...]
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The Obama Administration has moved Al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri from being an enemy combatant to being indicted in U.S. Criminal Court. Al-Marri was an Al Qaeda sleeper agent based in the U.S., and provided the terrorist organization with material support. He arrived in the U.S. shortly before 9/11 and was arrested in [...]
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For 18 years the Pentagon has forbid the publication of photos of American soldiers KIA (Killed in Action). In 1991, Bush 41 put the ban in place. Now, the Pentagon is lifting that ban.
What’s the big deal? Back in Vietnam, the press liked to use the many flag-draped coffins coming off of ships to reinforce their anti-war [...]
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Despite what’s been flying out of Eric Holder’s mouth, the United States is not a nation of cowards. If you want to see a nation of cowards, look no further than Sweden. Last week, the Scandinavian Socialist Paradise decreed that their country’s upcoming Davis Cup match with Israel will have to be played in an [...]
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