Al Qaeda Says Barack Obama Doesn’t Know What He is Talking About
Posted by Erick Erickson According to Barack Obama, Al Qaeda keeps attacking us and recruiting new terrorists because GTMO exists. Unfortunately for Obama, Al Qaeda says the recent attack on the CIA was actually because of our drones. If we follow Obama’s logic that the existence of GTMO causes terror attacks, we must conclude that […]
Women who wear burkas and niqabs on the street in France face fines of $1,115
Women who wear Islamic veils in public in France face a $1,115 fine under strict new laws being proposed. The amount could be doubled for Muslim men who force female members of their family to cover their faces. Jean-Francois Cope, president of Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP Party, said the legislation was intended to protect the […]
Yemen to America: Just give us the money and go away
By Michelle Malkin • American taxpayers forked over nearly $70 million to Yemen in security aid last year. The Yemeni government is demanding more now in the wake of the Crotch Bomber attack. What they don’t want: U.S. troops to help them fight jihad effectively: Yemen’s foreign minister said Wednesday that his country opposes any […]
OK…*Someone* Is Lying To Us About Terrorists
CBS News is reporting that the White House claims there was “No Xmas Day In-Flight Warning” and, further, that they refute the claims of an LA Times piece that suggested “border enforcement officials found information in a database suggesting the alleged terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had extremist ties.” The Times piece, allegedly, goes on to […]
Iraq Will Sue Israel over 1981 Attack
The Iraqi government has filed a claim with the United Nations for financial compensation from Israel for bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981. Iraqi prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki is seeking the compensation after the cabinet decided on November 25 to set up a “neutral committee” to determine the scale of compensation that Israel will […]
Emanuel Says WH is ‘Fed Up’ With Israel
The United States is “fed up” with Israelis who “adopt the right ideas too late,” and also with the “Palestinians who always miss opportunities,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel angrily told an Israeli diplomat recently. IDF Army Radio reported that Emanuel said this in a meeting with Israel’s Consul in Los Angeles, Yaki […]
Obama Lets Iran Off the Sanctions Hook
Taking advantage of the ado surrounding the failed airliner bombing and the new prominence of the al Qaeda peril, the Obama administration has finally given up its sanctions strategy for averting the rise of a nuclear-armed Iran. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was tasked with the public announcement: “The Obama administration wants to keep […]
Egypt-Saudi Middle East Peace Plan to Be Presented
Egypt’s minister of intelligence Omar Suleiman and foreign minister Ahmad Abul Gheit are due in Washington Friday, Jan. 7, to present US president Barack Obama with a new Egyptian-Saudi proposal for reviving Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources disclose. At its core would be a presidential letter of guarantee for Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of […]
10 Significant Articles From the ‘Noughties’ Decade
From HonestReporting: Certain articles, blog posts, cartoons and videos from the past decade continue to stick out in mind. I haven’t forgotten them, because they say a lot about the media and the kinds of issues HonestReporting dealt with during the “noughties.” Ranking their importance is useless; each had its own kind significance for better […]
If You’ve Traveled Through Airport Security, You Have Been Screened More Thoroughly Than Obama’s TSA Pick
Posted by Erick Erickson This would defy credible explanation unless you understood that the Obama administration really is a collection of amateurs. Professionals do not let this happen. Erroll Southers is Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Safety Administration — the TSA, that organization that screens passengers getting on airplanes. One would think the […]
Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport
by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post January 6, 2010 As hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation from London’s Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind. Nizar al-Hindawi and Ann-Marie Murphy. It consisted of an El Al security agent quizzing one Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, a […]
