Posted by Erick Erickson Today Barack Obama is going to announce that the terrorist mastermind of September 11th, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent to New York City for a criminal trial in a civilian court. In that trial, the terrorist will get all the rights afforded an American citizen in a criminal trial, including […]
Posted by Erick Erickson During the Bush administration, leaks out of the Pentagon, State Department, and CIA that would undermine national security were routinely praised by the Democrats and mainstream media as patriotic. Now that leaks are coming out showing just how inept Barack Obama’s foreign policy dithering has become, leakers must be shut down. […]
Remember how the Democrats reacted when the Bush Administration started replacing U.S. Attorneys? At least they were actually political appointees employed at the will and whim of the President. Posted by Erick Erickson Please see the update at the bottom of this post. — Erick “This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian […]
Jim Meyers Veteran political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax that the Obama administration is “deliberately mischaracterizing” the Fort Hood massacre by refusing to admit it was a terrorist attack. Morris also said the failure to recognize the danger posed by Major Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of the killings, points to “Obama’s failures in […]
The only Jewish Republican in Congress said the Jewish community needs to “remove the blinders from our eyes”and speak out more vocally against threats to Israel and the Jewish people. “Many men are pointing guns at Israel, indeed at Jews, everywhere,” said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor in Washington at the opening session of the […]
By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – The White House has not released any official photos of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting this week with President Obama – just one of several signs indicating a rift between the two leaders. Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. last weekend to address a convention of Jewish leaders. The prime minister’s […]
Gene J. Koprowski Economists who have the Obama administration’s policy-making ear simply do not believe that higher marginal tax rates will retard economic growth, writes economist Irwin Stelzer. Writing in the The Weekly Standard, Stelzer explains that the administration is flirting with such things as a 60 percent rate on the incremental income of high […]
Obama Administration figures deliberately understate economic downturn The true rate of unemployment for October 2009 may be 22.1 percent, not the 10.2 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports. Unemployment at 22.1 percent, if accurate, would be at numbers not seen since peak unemployment during the 1973 to 1975 […]
By Dr. Paul Kengor President Obama says the economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Actually, it is the worst since the Reagan recession of 1982-83. Further, the 2009 market crash is not the worst since 1929 but since 1987—also on Ronald Reagan’s watch. What did Reagan do—or, more importantly, didn’t do—in response to […]
By: Jim Meyers With Monday marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ronald Reagan’s son Michael tells Newsmax that his father was deeply troubled by the wall from the night it was first erected. Michael Reagan also said President Barack Obama’s decision not to attend the anniversary ceremonies in Berlin is “sad,” […]
