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The Cordoba Project plans to construct a 13-story mosque and community center about 2 blocks from where the Twin Towers once stood. I’m not in favor of this idea. I don’t like to let emotions rule my political judgment but the events of 9/11 still sting. I was close to the World Trade Center when […]
There is a minor kerfuffle in the right wing blogs about Michael Bellesiles being caught publishing fiction as truth. The right wing has it in for Bellesiles, since he once faked data on gun ownership in early America, trying to prove no one owned guns then (and ergo the second amendment was meant to refer […]
A couple weeks ago, I ran across a strange story about Zimbabwe: a couple of known terrorists were caught crossing the border from Zimbabwe into South Africa at Beitbridge. 33 year-old Imran Muhammad…was arrested last Sunday while trying to get through Beitbridge border post to South Africa on what officials believe was a fake Kenyan […]
Recently at an RNC fundraiser in Noank, CT, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele made comments regarding Afghanistan that have caused members within the Republican Party to call for his resignation as committee chair. In addition, the cited statement has been interpreted to mean that Steele is both against the war in Afghanistan and that […]
Since I started blogging back in 2004, one the topics I’ve covered pretty extensively is the abuse and neglect of children. I’ve covered topics where I thought children were exploited in our consumer culture, children were abused or neglected by their parents or stories in which parenting is supplanted by the government. I rarely touch […]
Even Eric Holder and his crew have been unable to justify a reason to fight it. That’s why they are sitting on it, claiming that they are going to go slowly in order to mull it over. As near as many of us can tell, they are sitting on it until the law takes effect in the hopes of catching an Arizona police officer attempting to use it to commit a crime.
As we begin to edge closer to the midterm elections this fall, an obvious pattern is beginning to develop. Anti-incumbent sentiment is at an all-time high, and rightfully so. Unfortunately, it seems that when the people of our nation are dissatisfied with the party holding power, they tend to go to extremes in the other […]
Miranda Rights warnings…they are all the news this week, as Attorney General Eric Holder stated on the weekend Obama administration propaganda shows that he is open to modifying when the warnings are required. The question seems to be centered around these questions: A) Should we give foreign terrorists a Miranda Warning? B) Should we give […]
by William ChurchEditor West Bank VoicesThe newspaper headlines are full of talk of President Obama putting pressure on Israel’s Netanyahu to halt the settlements in East Jerusalem and restart the peace negotiations.   In reality, Israeli internal politics leaves very little room for a solution regardless of actions by the United States.Last month Israel shook the potential […]
If you follow the British news, you might have noticed an ongoing scandal about Scotland releasing the mastermind of the Lockerbie bombing (the bomb at Christmas time of 1988Â that destroyed Pan Am 103 and took the lives of 270 people). Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released last August at Libya’s request because he was terminally […]
In Psychiatry, there used to be something called a Rorschach test.. where they show you ink blots and ask you what they look like. The idea is that one would “project” one’s ideas and worries into the object, and you could get an idea what was on their mind. Sort of the equivalent in religious […]
From Current News: “New bin Laden tape emerges” Osama: Why Should Anyone Care? Is that really you Osama? Still basking in your old infamy; polishing your old image? Or are you now just an icon; a dead Moslem saint a symbol of old carnage? Are you cowering in a cave or in a hidden hospice; […]
By Jefferson Flanders Was it a “low, dishonest decade”? That’s been a popular Anglo-American media meme adopted by writers commenting on the past ten years. The phrase comes from W.H Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939†(“As the clever hopes expire/Of a low dishonest decadeâ€) and it was recycled by a number of commentators on both […]
A headline about President Obama’s Speech on national security from the Philippine Inquirer notes: Obama speech won’t bump ‘Lost’ premiere–White House Well, after a kerfuffle about the President “bumping” Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special, it’s nice to see that President Obama has his priorities intact. (I should note that Pope John Paul II rescheduled his installation […]
Pacifism –noun 1. Opposition to war or violence of any kind. 2. Refusal to engage in military activity because of one’s principles or beliefs. 3. The principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without recourse to war. In my post yesterday I mentioned that a so-called conservative friend on my facebook […]
In my daily attempt to shed light on the liberal’s statist agenda that seeks to convert our fine republic into a socialist doormat for the world, I come across a great many characters with quite a few interesting viewpoints. Throughout 2009, as President Obama and the liberal congress made it increasingly obvious that the oath […]
Way back in 2001, letters containing powdered anthrax were sent to a bunch of news reporters and Congressmen, and because the powder was so fine several innocent people, mainly those who worked in the Post Office, died from the infection. Despite initial worries that it was terrorism, later reports assured the American people that it […]
TedLipien.com, SAN FRANCISCO — One group of U.S. Government employees that has not received much media scrutiny in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack are U.S. diplomats who had issued and failed to cancel Mr. Abdulmutallab’s U.S. visa. U.S. Consular Officers at the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Robin R. […]
It took a year for President Barack Obama to do it, but in his weekly address to the nation today (1/2/10) he finally got mad enough to get his teleprompter to use the word “terrorism.” “All those involved in the attempted act of terrorism on Christmas must know you, too, will be held to […]
Umaru Abdul Mutallab, father of the “Christmas Underwear Bomber”, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, needs to be recognized as a very brave man and a true friend of America. Up until now he has only been briefly mentioned for his deed, but an article at Politics Daily by Jeffrey Weiss not only corrects that it asks a […]
Those who travel by air in the future might soon face full body pat downs to check for bombs in the bosom and crotch, thanks to Umar the Panty bomber. But the real problem is that “no using the rest room for the last two hours of flight”. Apparantly, Umar spent an hour in the […]
I am fascinated by what the US blogs are calling “Climategate”. It seems that one of the main scientific research labs behind Global warming, indeed the one whose data was one of the lynchpins proving “climate change” was occuring, manmade, and severe, had their emails hacked and put on line. When the emails were taken […]
By Jefferson Flanders The mainstream media has now declared the conflict in Afghanistan to be “Mr. Obama’s War.” Barack Obama’s Dec. 1st West Point speech escalating the war through a surge of 30,000 American troops—following the 21,000 soldiers and Marines he dispatched earlier in the year—means, as CNN’s Gloria Borger noted, that Obama “owns the […]
The massacre of fifty plus civilians, including 27 journalists, allegedly by a local politician attempting to eliminate an opposing candidate, has resulted in numerous arrests, and martial law being declared in that southern Philippine province. But as the military continue their searches for perpetrators and digging up hidden weapons, a lot of other things are […]
I wrote an article two months ago calling the President to task for his indecisiveness in responding to General McChrystal’s request for 40,000 reinforcements in Afghanistan. I was pretty annoyed that the alleged “leader” of our country would take so long with a decision that was costing my fellow military men and women’s lives each […]
President Obama once again waxed eloquent this week at West Point– he is one hell of a good orator, I’ll give him that! (Text of speech HERE.) It was also an exceptionally pro-American speech — for Obama that is; his obsessive need to pound his chest and scream Mea Culpa (figuratively of course) on behalf […]
Today saw the first day of a public inquiry taking place in London into the events surrounding the British Government’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The hearing, conducted by retired civil servant Sir John Chilcot, aims to help answer key questions such as whether the government put pressure on legal experts, notably the then […]
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is being promoted to, what amounts to, full citizen of the United States of America for purposes of standing trial, in civilian court, for his war crimes. He’ll get all the rights and privileges afforded citizens, and even just residents living under the laws of our […]
I was going to get back to pontificating on what I believe this week, but have been so angered by the media coverage of the Islamic terrorist attack on Fort Hood that I felt the need to speak on this top. First, and foremost, my thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and the […]
Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Due to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s decision to prolong her stay in the Middle East, her scheduled meeting in Washington with visiting Polish foreign minister RadosÅ‚aw Sikorski has been cancelled. The announcement of the cancellation was made Tuesday by the State Department spokesman Ian Kelly. Tomorrow, of course, she has a […]
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