Biased Obama Stimulus Favors Democratic Areas
A December study from George Mason University showed that Democratic districts have received nearly twice as much stimulus money as Republican districts — and the cash has been awarded without regard to how badly an area was suffering from job losses or income problems. Blue districts garnered the majority of the $787 stimulus package, getting […]
Barack Obama’s Vulnerabilities Will Get Us All Killed
“At the end of the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, there’s something moving in the shadows of Mount Doom. It wasn’t there while George Bush was in charge.
It never ends: Jihadi attack on Danish cartoonist
Michelle Malkin– How about kicking off the New Year with a stark reminder that jihadists don’t just hate us because of Iraq and Afghanistan? The Religion of Perpetual Outrage hates all infidels. The targeting of the Danish Mohammed cartoonists is a lingering pretext to demonstrate that centuries-old, Koran-inspired hatred. If it isn’t cartoons, it’s always […]
Why Are We Tiring of Obama?
The China Presidency I have an heirloom china pitcher on my mantle that has dozens of glued cracks — so much so that it is now purely ornamental and will not hold water. When I was a boy I’d ask my mother when, and under what circumstances, did the china crack apart. She would provide […]
MASSIVE ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL WILL OCCUR IN 2010
MASSIVE ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL WILL OCCUR IN 2010 by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. The planned bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 252 was averted by a stroke of luck and the courage of a Dutchman. But the lesson provided by Umar Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day has been lost to Obama Administration. Yes, we now have […]
Gingrich: Profiling Essential in War on Terrorism
Americans must get comfortable with so-called “profiling” if the nation is going to effectively wage war against Islamic terrorism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday. In an op-ed for the conservative Human Events magazine, the Georgia Republican wrote that the U.S. for years has shied away from profiling for radical Islamic terrorists because of […]
Israel Killing “Activists” Not Terrorists
Headlines misrepresent IDF actions against terrorist murderers. On 24 December, Israeli father-of-seven Meir Chai, 45, was murdered in a terror attack in the West Bank. This act of murder received scant coverage in the international media (irrespective of the timing during the holiday season). The Israeli response, however, which saw three terrorists responsible for the fatal attack killed in […]
Not Jolly Good II: Islamists Funded by the UK Government
by David J. Rusin • Dec 30, 2009 at 11:27 am The British government’s history of employing Islamists and placing them in sensitive positions, the subject of the previous IW blog post, is only part of the problem. Equally troubling is the record of UK bureaucrats sending money to Islamists in the form of grants. […]
The Price for Fannie and Freddie Keeps Going
Barney Frank’s decision to ‘roll the dice’ on subsidized housing is becoming an epic disaster for taxpayers. PETER J. WALLISON On Christmas Eve, when most Americans’ minds were on other things, the Treasury Department announced that it was removing the $400 billion cap from what the administration believes will be necessary to keep Fannie Mae […]
Al-Qaeda practises beating body scanners
A body scanner at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport would not necessarily have detected the explosives which the would-be syringe bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had sewn into his underwear. A Dutch military intelligence source told De Telegraaf newspaper that Al Qaeda has its own security scanners and has been practicing ways of concealing explosives. The terrorist group […]
‘Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants planning attacks from Yemen
Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country’s Foreign Minister said today. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help to train and equip counter-terrorist forces. His plea came after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot. […]
