The Hasbara Test
It has been nearly three years since the Israeli foreign ministry decided to “rebrand” the country’s image through a silly campaign that included pictures of beautiful sabrinas with little clothing...
View ArticleMichael Hayden vs. Obami’s Folly
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden is the latest and among the most credible critics of the administration’s handling of the Christmas Day bombing. He writes: We got it wrong in Detroit on Christmas...
View ArticleTime to Throw Holder Under the Bus?
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Evan Bayh, perhaps hearing footsteps back home in an election year, said of the KSM trial that it ”sounded good in theory way back when but, in practice, it just was...
View ArticleCohen vs. Obama
When Richard Cohen sounds like Dick Cheney, the Obama administration is in a heap of trouble: There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether...
View ArticleHunting Heads
If Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Abdulmutallab had been identified by Special Forces in Yemen, rather than being detained in Detroit, he could well have been summarily killed in a drone strike...
View ArticleRe: Gartenstein-Ross Defends Rashad Hussain
Hussain’s comment was not an isolated one. Josh Gerstein reports on the recording of the event that Hussain has tried to conceal from view: Hussain refers to some provisions of the Patriot Act as...
View ArticleObama OKs Assassination of American Citizen
…and no, it’s not Rush Limbaugh. Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding in Yemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was...
View ArticleThe Least Transparent Administration
Among the Obama administration’s wildly inaccurate self-descriptors is that it is the most “transparent administration in history.” That is — as we have repeatedly seen in the national security and...
View ArticleRE: The No-Fly List Didn’t Work, Mr. Holder
After discovering that the federal no-fly list failed to keep Faisal Shahzad off a Dubai-bound commercial flight, there is only one thing to say: It’s becoming clear that the system that has been in...
View ArticleIf Jews Back Obama’s Pressure, Why Was the ‘Charm Offensive’ Necessary?
For those who were thrilled by President Obama’s decision to distance the United States from Israel and to treat Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem as illegal settlements, the recent “charm offensive”...
View ArticleDoes the Obama Administration’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy Rely on Luck?
The administration is sensitive to the notion that they are relying on terrorists’ ineptitude and alert citizenry to defend America. On Fox News Sunday, the continually hapless John Brennan had this to...
View ArticleThe Obama Team’s Criminal-Justice Model Fails
The Obama administration came into office convinced that the Bush approach to fighting terrorism was flawed and that instead we could apply criminal-justice rules in the war against Islamic terrorism....
View ArticleUAW Enriched, Now What About the Taxpayers?
You might recall that three years ago, GM negotiated wage cuts with the UAW. That was supposed to lower the rate for new hires, to $25.65 per hour, a significant reduction over current rates of...
View ArticleWay to Go, Senator Feinstein!
Dennis Blair “resigned” — that is to say, was shoved overboard, finally. As the Wall Street Journal report points out, the shoving is long overdue: From the outset, Mr. Blair, 63 years old, a retired...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Because all our problems are solved, there’s time for this: “Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), a former Marine and the sponsor of the bill in the upper chamber, has convinced 79 senators to sign on to the...
View ArticleNo Deal, Mr. President (Updated)
Whatever is going on with House Republicans, Senate Republicans seem to be holding firm on the extension of the Bush tax cuts. In the Washington Post, Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was emphatic:...
View ArticleThe Policies That Keep Us Safe
The foiled package-bomb plot originating in Yemen is the latest sign of how determined Islamist extremists remain in trying to strike the United States. Just in the past year, we have seen the shooting...
View ArticleThe Myth of Jewish-Only Roads
Helen Thomas is at it again. “I can call a president of the United States anything in the book,” she said at an anti-Arab-bias workshop in Detroit, “but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only...
View ArticleHelen Thomas Loses Some Awards, Wins Others
After Helen Thomas’s “go back to Germany” rant ended her career last June, there were still some left-wing journalists who twisted themselves into pretzels trying to argue that Thomas’s remarks weren’t...
View ArticleDetroit at Bay
Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan announced today that he will be appointing an emergency manager to oversee Detroit, which is bankrupt in every way but officially. Its liabilities exceed $14 billion...
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