After a Year in Office, Biden Says Afghan War Policy Still Developing

August 1, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Islam, Islamofascism, Joe Biden, Liberals, Military, President, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Vice President Joe Biden wants everyone to just calm down. He says that it’s “much too premature” to judge the Obama administration’s efforts in Afghanistan. Apparently, after a year of focusing on “the right war,” America is still waiting for the Obama administration to “develop” its policies there.

But one thing seems sure, the Obama administration has already excluded the possibility that more troops will be sent if Biden’s comments can be believed. When asked if the additional 30,000 troops are successful, will the administration send even more after them, Biden did not hesitate to say, “I do not believe so.”

So, success seems to be right off the table. After a year of the administration’s flaccid talk about our efforts in Afghanistan, after a decision to send fewer troops than generals have requested, and after a year of “developing” policy, the one thing that might be successful — more troops — has been preemptively taken off the table before anyone even knows if the first deployment will work.
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Unions Holding Up Cash for the Troops

July 18, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Air Force, Anti-Americanism, Anti-War, Army, Barack Obama, Budget, Coast Guard, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Iraq, Liberals, Marines, Military, National Guard, Navy, Republicans, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Last week the Washington Times had a story that should enrage every true American. The Democrat Congress is allowing Big Labor’s needs to come before the needs of our troops. The supplemental budget that Congress is considering is supposed to be about funding the troops and their efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Democrats are more interested in how many payoffs for Big Labor they can stuff into the thing then in funding the troops.

Like most supplementals, this bill began with a singular purpose: paying war expenses. It since has been larded with billions in wasteful projects and programs designed to attract the vote of the left-of-center members with no fondness for the military. Among the House-approved giveaways are a $10 billion bailout for big-spending local governments, loan guarantees worth $9 billion for purported renewable energy, $3 billion for black farmers and American Indians who sued the government and $1 billion for summertime “youth activities.”

Even worse is the language to nationalize our first responders, policemen, and firemen. (As we talked about HERE)
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Dems Include Union Bailout in War Funding Bill

July 1, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Budget, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Iraq, Islamofascism, Liberals, Military, Nancy Pelosi, Security/Safety, Taxes, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

There is no other aspect of Washington D.C. that upsets voters more than government spending surreptitiously added on to spending bills and this week Congress indulged its inner drunken sailor once again by adding a $10 billion bailout for teachers unions in the bill that is supposed to fund the war effort.

The teacher union bailout ups the $60 billion expenditure to a $70 billion tab and is causing even some Democrats to balk.

Republicans have demanded that the war funding bill be clean of any tacked on spending and have threatened to withhold support of the bill if the teachers union bailouts and other unrelated spending additions are kept.
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The Cross We Bear, The Mosque We Won’t

June 11, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Jews, Judaism, Liberals, Palestinians, Religion, Resa LaRu, "Warchick" Kirkland, Terrorism, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Resa LaRu Kirkland

On the West Side….

It first ended in 1918 (or so we thought), then began in 1934. It was replaced with a metal one in 1984, and became a subject of controversy in 2002. It was covered with a shroud while lawyers argued its offense factor until 2010, when courts ruled it could stay and lose the veil.

The majority wept with joy, secure in the thought that this friend would remain steady whenever they looked up.

The item of all the controversy, offense, lawyers, courts, and shrouding—a simple white cross honoring American warriors of WWI—joyfully returned for another 76 years standing guard over the harsh and unforgiving world it was willing to purchase with its own eternal vigilance.

And two weeks later, in a display of spoiled, spineless, hippy fagatronics, the Politically Castrated minority took their ball and went home like the cowards they are. They decided if they couldn’t get their way through the law, they’d take it into their own impotent, pathetic, mob-clenched hands.
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Islammunism: Two Fronts, One Enemy

June 9, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Judaism, Military, President, Religion, Resa LaRu, "Warchick" Kirkland, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Resa LaRu Kirkland

“…we have seen in the past – over and over again – that evil seeks out evil, that they create secret combinations and make blood oaths against the good people of the earth. They bond together in their mutual treachery, and no malevolence is too much for them to consider. They will try to distract us from their wickedness by claiming it is all for God – as Islam does. Or it is our fault for being fat, spoiled Americans – as North Korea does daily. Or, even more vile, they will point to American sins and excess and claim that we are merely “reaping what we’ve sown.” And being kind, forgiving and self-evaluating people, we hesitate just long enough for them to strike at us. – 2-front war, by Resa LaRu Kirkland, October, 2002

I wrote those words almost 8 years ago now, in a three piecer on the chilling alliance that has been clearly forming between Islam and Communism for the past 2 decades. Given what’s going on now, can we dispense with the frantic attempts to call it what it isn’t and settle on what we are dealing with here: Islammunism, the coming together of Islam and Communism?
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It Should Be Our Honor to Honor

May 31, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Air Force, Army, Family, Foreign Countries, Frank Salvato, Iraq, Islamofascism, Marines, Military, National Guard, Navy, Terrorism, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

“There are the demons that follow me, and tempt me into thoughts and actions that are not my own…but that are necessary for survival. I’ve made compromises with my humanity. And I am not alone in this. Miles from me are my brethren in this world, who walk in the same streets…who feel the same things, whether they admit to it or not. And to think, I volunteered for this…”

These were the words of a young United States Army sergeant, Eddie Jeffers. They are part of a letter that he had sent home to his Father in 2007 while serving in the Iraqi battle theater; Ramadi, to be specific. It remains one of the most powerful pieces of writing – perhaps the most powerful piece of writing – that I have ever laid eyes on. It is pure, raw honesty put to paper.

Although I have become a friend to the Jeffers Family, I was never privileged enough to have met Sgt. Jeffers. Eddie was killed not long after he penned those words, a casualty of war; a war he understood; a war he believed in.

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

May 29, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Budget, Business, Capitalism, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Foreign Countries, Free Trade, Government, Government, Corruption, Iraq, Jobs, Liberals, Military, Nancy Morgan, President, Taxes | Comments Off

-By Nancy Morgan

As Congress labored furiously to ensure that women have equal access to federal bathrooms, insurgents in Afghanistan this month launched a series of bold strikes on U.S. and NATO bases in Afghanistan. The Potty Parity Act is proceeding apace.

The Obama administration’s response to the upsurge in violence in Afghanistan? They launched an investigation into allegations that a number of American soldiers were responsible for the “unlawful deaths” of at least three Afghan civilians. This, despite the recent unanimous acquittal of three heroic Navy SEALS who were swiftly exonerated by a jury after being accused of, gasp, slapping one of the most dangerous terrorist detainees in the world. Who, by the way, the SEALS heroically captured. Thank-you, Navy SEALS. No update yet on the terrorist’s hurt lip.
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Join Us for a Viewing of The Third Jihad in Palatine

April 21, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Chicago, Foreign Countries, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Palestinians, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

ACT for America is bringing its documentary The Third Jihad to Palatine, Illinois on Saturday April 24. The film will be shown after 2PM and is sponsored by the Ukrainian American Veterans, the 1Lt. Ivan Shandor Post 35.

ACT for America is an organization started by Brigitte Gabriel who arrived in the U.S. after radical Islamists chased her from her home in Lebanon. Gabriel was shocked how little Americans knew about these Islamists and she started her organization to educate her newfound countrymen.
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Podcast: Obama’s Increased Use of Death From Above

April 12, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-War, Barack Obama, Foreign Countries, Government, Iran, Iraq, Islamofascism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Military, Podcasting, President, Publius' Forum, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

So, where is the hypocritical anti-war left? Obama has killed double the number of Bush with drone strikes yet the anti-war left is utterly silent on it all.

Obama’s Increased Use of Death From the Skies, Where’s the Anti-War Left?

April 7, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Anti-War, Army, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, George W. Bush, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islamofascism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Military, Pakistan, President, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Think Tank New America Foundation has been reporting on drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq for quite some time and its tally of kills by U.S. drones reveals an interesting thing. It shows that drone kills under President Obama are far and away higher than those under Bush.

Reliable numbers of those killed by U.S. drones are obviously hard to come by. Strikes are deep in unfriendly territory and subject to obfuscation by both a U.S. government that isn’t too keen on reporting kills as well as its enemies that try to downplay the strikes in order to discredit their effectiveness. Because of this the NAF reports a range between which the truth may lie.

For instance, in these first few months of 2010 NAF reports that so far between 141 and 240 people have been killed by U.S. predator drones. This includes “collateral damage” as well as the deaths of actual terrorists.
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This Just In, Liberals Are Murderers

March 22, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Anti-War, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Government, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Law, Military, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Terrorism, The Law, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

What is it that the extremists of the anti-war left, liberals, and Democrats say about the U.S. practice of capturing and detaining terror suspects? Don’t they say that it is wrong and evil? To that end, the left has through constant abuse of our own legal system made it practically untenable to capture and house terrorists in detention centers. And so, the U.S. is now just killing them outright instead of trying to capture them.

Let me say that again: because of the left, we are now just killing terrorists instead of capturing them. The result? Liberals are responsible for what they would consider the “murder” of terrorist suspects.

Yes, liberals are murderers. Now, not only are they baby murderers, but they are terror suspect murderers too. Will the left’s bloodlust never be sated?

A report in the L.A. Times reveals the ultimate, logical outcome of the left’s ill-considered actions against the war on terror. With the plans of closing Guantanamo Bay detention facility proceeding, the Obama administration is finding itself facing a dilemma. What they heck is it to do with terror suspects? According to the L.A. Times Obama faces “bringing them to the U.S. or even killing them.”
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Publius Podcast: And the New York Times Never Mentions the Word Islam

March 22, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Christianity, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Society/Culture, Taxes, Terrorism, The Law, UN, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | 1 Comment

Nicholas Kristoff does a review of a book about the oppressed life of a young Muslim girl that was married off at 10-years-old. Kristoff laments this poor girl’s plight but not once mentions that she was from an Islamic culture. How can he discuss the evils of these sort of arranged marriages without mentioning Islam? You tell me…

Trials for bin Laden? Why?

March 22, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Christianity, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Government, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Religion, Republicans, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

There has never been a trial of a fallen national leader that would stand up to the scrutiny of good criminal law. They have always been politically motivated, full of passion, and short on legal niceties or any observation of technical precision. Because of this, should the United States capture Usamma bin Laden, she should quickly and immediately execute him. Period. End of discussion.

From the absurd trial of Charles I by Cromwell’s Roundheads, to the Nazi trials at Nuremberg, to the Soviet Show Trials all the way to the execution of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, no political trial has been legally legitimate. Moral legitimacy is another subject, but the truth is that every one of these trials mentioned was bad on legal procedure.

Not only are these trials bad on technical law, but they set bad precedents. The Nuremberg trials, for instance, should never have happened because they emboldened those miscreants that had the idea that an “International community” could possibly have the legal power to try and convict a leader of a fallen state or deposed government.

Better that the Nazis should have been taken out back of a death camp and summarily executed as befits any fallen, evil foeman. The Romans were right. Kill those fallen leaders and move on. There is no need to justify it via some warped appeal to “the law.”
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And Not Once Did the New York Times Mention the Word Islam!

March 5, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Children, Christianity, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Morals/Sex, Palestinians, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Nicholas Kristof rightly celebrates a new book highlighting the evils of the forced marriages of pre-teen girls to older men. Kristof is also right to reveal the sordid truths about the practice of marrying off pre-teen girls and the abuse they invariably seem to suffer in the arrangement. But one word was conspicuously missing from Kristof’s NYT article, that was the word Islam.

Amazingly, Kristof spent over 800 words telling the world of this monstrous practice, even saying, “Societies that repress women tend to be prone to violence.” But in all those words, in all that castigation of such “societies” Kristof somehow forgot to mention that these practices are endemic in Islamic cultures. Not one time did the word Islam or Muslim show up among these 800 some words.

The book, “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced,” tells the tale of a 10-year-old Yemeni girl that was in her Islamic homeland forced into a marriage with an abusive deliveryman in his 30s. Once in third grade, this poor child was yanked from school — a married woman, they told her, should not go to school — and forced into to bed of this stranger who as much as purchased her like meat from her parents.
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IRS Plane Attacker Part of ‘Right Wing,’ Christmas Bomber Just a ‘Lone Wolf’

February 22, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Islamofascism, Journalism, Liberals, Media, Media Bias, Newspapers, Radio, Religion, Taxes, Tea Party, Terrorism, TV News, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

No clearer difference can be seen in how the Old Media and its left-wing compatriots treat mass killers, terrorists and nutjobs than the way Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab and Joe Stack have been portrayed by the Old Media and the left. Abdulmutallab, the jihadi Christmas Bomber, was treated as an aberration unconnected with any larger group — despite that he trained with al Qaeda — and Joe Stack, who flew a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, has been held up as the epitome of the “teabaggers” and the “anti-government right” despite that not a single tie to those folks has been yet discovered.

Immediately after Abdulmutallab tried to blow himself and a plane full of passengers into martyrdom on Christmas Day 2009, President Obama’s administration declared this guy an “isolated extremist” and said he had no connection to our Islamofascist enemies. Obama was helped along in this by many Old Media news sources.

On Dec. 26,for instance, CBS reported that Abdulmutallab was a loner. “As of now, he appears to be a lone actor with no conspirators. A report the following day said of the jihadist bomber, “’We’re not aware of anybody else,’ one official told Orr. No further arrests are imminent.”
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Worth Reconsidering

February 6, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Politicians, Socialism, Thomas Brewton | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

President Obama is reassessing his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) in New York City. A couple of related ideas also need to be reconsidered.

The colossal cost of holding a KSM trial in New York City is evidently the primary motivation for moving the trial elsewhere.

More worthy of reassessment is the liberal-progressive idea that terrorists should be dealt with as if they were ordinary criminals entitled to Miranda rights and the host of additional constitutional protections that go with ordinary criminal trials.

Worthy of reassessment, as well, is the administration’s repeated assurances that KSM will be found guilty and will be executed. This gives the appearance of a show trial in which the conviction is rigged beforehand. One wonders why Obama is willing to create this appearance, given his craven urges to kow-tow to overseas public opinion.
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Another Example of Backwards Islamic ‘Culture’

January 29, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Children, Family, Gays, History, Islam, Morals/Sex, Religion, Society/Culture, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

U.S. troops in Afghanistan are having a hard time understanding what is a strange Afghan cultural practice to them. The practice can be summed up in the ages old Afghan phrase, “women are for children, boys are for pleasure.”

Yes, that phrase means what you think it means. It has been well known for a long time that some parts of Afghanistan have an odd sexual practice ensconced in its culture. Men have sex for pleasure with boys often eschewing women. Sometimes these men even claim to be disgusted by the idea of sex for pleasure with a woman. Yet none of these Afghani men think of themselves as homosexual because they don’t “love” their male sex partners. They just love the sex.
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Illinois Panel Votes to ‘Close’ Thomson Readying it for Guantanamo Terrorists

January 6, 2010 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Crime, Democracy, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Foreign Policy, Freedom, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Iran, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, President, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Taxes, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

This afternoon the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability voted 7-4 to formally close the Thomson Correctional Center. The next step could be to sell the facility to the federal government in order for Obama to deposit in the midst of Illinois citizens the dangerous terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detainee facility.

This decision is but a stepping stone toward the eventual sale of the prison to the federal government. The panel only serves in an advisory capacity so this decision does not finalize any deals.
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Comptroller Race: William Kelly on Gitmo Transfers to Illinois

December 16, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Chicago, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, GOP, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Security/Safety, State Government, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

“Prisons attract one thing – friends and family. In the case of President Obama’s planned transfer of Gitmo detainees to Thomson Illinois – we are talking about Al-Qaeda friends and family. You don’t have to be a national security expert to know that this is the wrong move for Illinois. The last thing we need is to have Al-Qaeda landing at O’Hare and taking a Greyhound Bus across Illinois to their new home. Illinois doesn’t want it and Illinois doesn’t need it.”
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BG Exclusive: Confirmed, Obama Sending Terrorists to Illinois

December 11, 2009 | Filed Under 9/11, Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Illinois, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Military, President, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

In a shocking news flash, BigGovernment.com has published a Department of Justice Memo that authorizes the Obama Administration to send terrorists into Illinois!

Via Obama Executive Order 13492, terrorists WILL BE SENT to Illinois.

Here is the text of that memo (download document here):

Thursday, December 10, 2009

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   

SUBJECT: Directing Certain Actions with Respect to Acquisition and Use of Thomson Correctional Center  

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including by article II, section 2, clause 1 of the Constitution, which designates the President as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and by the Authorization for Use of Military Force, Public Law 107-40, 115 Stat. 224, I hereby direct that the following actions be taken with respect to the facility known as the Thomson Correctional Center (TCC) in Thomson, Illinois:  

1. The Secretary of Defense shall relocate detainees currently held at the Guantanamo Detention Facility to the TCC as expeditiously as possible, to the extent permitted by laws related to Guantanamo detainees, and consistent with the findings in, and interagency Review established by, Executive Order 13492 of January 22, 2009.  

2. The Attorney General shall as expeditiously as possible acquire and activate the TCC as a United States Penitentiary, which the Attorney General has determined would alleviate the Bureau of Prisons’ shortage of maximum security cell space and could be used for other appropriate purposes. The Attorney General shall also provide to the Department of Defense a sufficient portion of the TCC to serve as a detention facility to be operated by the Department of Defense, to accommodate the relocation of detainees by the Secretary of Defense in accordance with paragraph 1 of this memorandum. This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.  

The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

So, what happened to all those Illinois lawmakers that were talking about having state hearings, discussions, and debates on the efficacy of this state exposing its citizens to terrorists? What happened to state officials having a word on the matter? Or is accidental Governor Pat Quinn and his pal President Obama simply going to decide to put these dangerous killers amongst us no matter what we have to say about it?

All questions that we apparently aren’t going to even be allowed to ask!
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2nd District Isaac Hayes: Obama’s 30,000 Boost a Step in the Right Direction

December 2, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Chicago, Congress, Cook County, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Military, Republicans, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, State Government, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Isaac Hayes campaign:

CHICAGO – December 1, 2009: The following statement was released today by Rev. Isaac C. Hayes, the GOP nominee for Congress in IL-2, and opponent of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) regarding President Obama’s announcement to send 30,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan:

“President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 additional troops into the theatre of Afghanistan is a good step in the right direction” said Hayes. “His decision to not cut-and-run despite opposition to the buildup by members of his own party is commendable. However, I am disappointed that he has chosen not to deploy the minimum number of troops requested by General McCrystal of 40,000. As Congress debates funding for the troop buildup, it is important that the Republican Party work to ensure our soldiers have the best chance of success by heeding the firsthand assessment of Gen. McCrystal.” 

For more information, go to:http://www.isaac4honesty.com.

8th District: Joe Walsh Pans Obama’s Afghanistan Policy Speech

December 2, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Foreign Policy, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Illinois, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Military, President, Republicans, Security/Safety, State Government, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

From the Joe Walsh campaign:

8th District GOP Congressional Candidate Supports More Troops

Lake Zurich, IL – Joe Walsh, Republican candidate for the GOP nomination for the 8th District Congressional seat currently held by Rep. Melissa Bean has issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan policy tonight:

According to Mr. Walsh:
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Confronting the Spin on the Fort Hood Massacre

November 19, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Frank Salvato, GOP, Government, Corruption, House of Representatives, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, Palestinians, President, Religion, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror | Comments Off

-By Frank Salvato

It is sad and disturbing commentary on the state of American culture when the facts surrounding an event, such as the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood, can not only be manipulated to facilitate a political ideology but blatantly ignored in the pursuit of a political agenda. In the face of the most potent enemy the United States and the free world has ever know – aggressive and violent radical Islam – our leaders and members of the mainstream media are doing just that; manipulating the truth to facilitate an agenda, and we are all in danger because of it.

By now, everyone in the world knows the details surrounding the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas. US Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, in committing not only an act of terrorism but an act of treason, perpetrated the most deadly terrorist act on American soil since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Actions and statements made by Hasan prior to his murderous spree indicate beyond doubt that he was not only opposed to US military action in the Iraqi and Afghan theaters and that he felt it was appropriate for Muslims in those countries to kill US and NATO soldiers in response to “the infidel occupiers,” but that he made a purposeful and premeditated choice to execute his jihad. Yet, President Obama, his spokespeople and members of the mainstream media are hyping the “backlash against Muslims” sentiment while completely ignoring – and in some cases arguing against – the mountain of evidence that points to the fact that Hasan was a radical Islamist and a jihadist.

Four Qualifications for Terrorism

Alan Colmes erroneously cited a definition for the word “terrorism” as used by Webster’s Dictionary during a recent stint on The O’Reilly Factor. While Webster’s is a wonderful resource for everyday use in divining the meaning of words, where terrorism is concerned it falls short.
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Fanatic Muslims Are the Enemy: Investigate All Leaders!

November 14, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Dr. Don Boys, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Military, Religion, Republicans, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Don Boys, Ph.D.

After a Muslim army officer killed 13 fellow-solders and wounded 33 others at Ft. Hood, Texas, it is time for sane, sensible, and stalwart officials to dump political correctness and recognize that Muslims who adhere precisely to the Koran are the enemies of freedom. The shooter believes that he is a Muslim first which means like all faithful Muslims he must make the nation where he lives an Islamic nation with shirah law. In a lecture to other medical doctors, he declared, according to the London Telegraph, that “non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.”

Sooner or later, informed, incensed, and indignant Americans will demand that officials stop playing “Let’s stop the terrorists” and stop the terrorists, at least those here at home. When a mushroom cloud forms over an American city, Obama’s pandering to Muslims will be discarded as quickly as long johns in a Texas heat wave. However, it will be too little, too late and he will be known as the most incompetent U.S. Presidents.

As always, the authorities refused to suggest religious motives for the Ft. Hood killings. Surely it was depression, dandruff, or poor potty training that caused a soldier to turn against his fellow soldiers with two guns blazing. Question: Would I be considered cranky or only crass or cruel to suggest that his statement “Allah is Great” (in Arabic) just before opening fire might, might be an indication of his motive? And could those 72 green-eyed virgins Islam promises to all “believers” who die as they take out “infidels” be somehow involved?

Newsweek: Nidal Hasan, It’s Not Islam, It’s a ‘Military on the Brink’

November 9, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Military, Religion, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Andrew Bast of Newsweek thinks he’s got the real reason behind Major Nidal Hasan’s murderously criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. Could it be that Hasan was steadily radicalized and steeped in hateful Islamofascism? Could it be a jihad mindset that sent Hasan into that military clinic yelling Allahu Akbar as he shot at anyone that got in his way?

Nope. Ridiculously, it was a “military on the brink,” it was the “stress” an uncaring U.S. military is forcing upon its members that was at fault as far as Bast is concerned. This is his obtuse conclusion in Newsweek’s piece headlined, “Is Fort Hood a Harbinger? Nidal Malik Hasan May Be a Symptom of a Military on the Brink.”

Ominously, Bast begins with his worry that there could be more members of the military about to follow Hasan’s murderous example. Bast absurdly starts his piece with this: “What if Thursday’s atrocious slaughter at Fort Hood only signals that the worst is yet to come?” And why would it be a sing that “the worst is yet to come,” you might wonder? Why else but that all that “stress” the military is putting everyone under is about to cause the whole combined services to explode?
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Rep. Joe Wilson on Healthcare and Afghanistan

November 9, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Congress, Constitution, Democrats/Leftists, Free Trade, Government, Corruption, Health, House of Representatives, Joe Wilson, Liberals, Senate, Society/Culture, Taxes, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Does Joe Wilson or any of his colleagues on the Hill care about the Constitution?

I participated in a conference call last Friday with Representative Joe Wilson (R, SC) who wanted to rally the troops against Pelosi’s healthcare bill. He also talked of Afghanistan, as well. But I think he made a revealing comment about the Constitution that distresses me.

Rep. Wilson started off his comments with his condolences to the families of the victims of the criminal actions at Fort Hood which had only recently happened at the time. “As a 21-year veteran of the military myself with three sons in the Army, one in the Navy, and a nephew in the Air Force, I truly do have a deep sympathy for the families at Fort Hood,” Wilson said.

Wilson then went into the issues of the day and said he was pleased to see the “clean sweep” that Republicans in Virginia saw in the governor’s race there.

This has also been an extraordinary week with the elections on Tuesday in the state of my ancestors, Virginia. I’m so grateful for the Commonwealth that there was a clean sweep and as it pointed out to me the Republican clean sweep there was for limited government and extending freedom is in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson.

Wilson also remarked that Jon Corzine, the incumbent Dem. gov. in New Jersey, had some “pretty strong things to say about me” and was happy that he lost his re-election bid.
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Two (Actually Three) From Illinois Murdered by Muslim Madman

November 7, 2009 | Filed Under 9/11, Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Chicago, Cook County, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Government, Corruption, Guns, Illinois, Islam, Islamofascism, Liberals, Palestinians, Religion, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off

-By Warner Todd Huston

Two Illinois soldiers lost their lives from the evil, criminal actions of Muslim Nidal Hasan in Texas last week.

Private Francheska Velez, 21, of West Kamerling was one of the thirteen killed by Hasan at Fort Hood Army base on Thursday.

“She was the best I have. The light of my family,” Juan Velez said of his only daughter. “She was living my dream — to be part of the military, part of the United States. To be part of something. Just to give back to the United States because this is where we are from.”

Pvt. Valez was three months pregnant when she lost her life.

Also killed by this terrorist was Pvt. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook. Pearson was training to become a bomb technician.

Screaming “Allahu Akbar,” terrorist Hasan entered a medical clinic where soldiers were waiting medical exams for deployment and began to fire at anyone in his way. 13 were murdered — actually 14 counting the baby in Velez’ womb. And therein lies a problem with the reporting of this story. No one mentions the loss of life suffered by Valez’ baby! It should not so easily be forgotten.

We have said a prayer for the families of victims and the tortured soul of this murdering Muslim terrorist.
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Mass Murdering Muslim Major Worked to Assist Obama’s Transition Team Through University Project

November 6, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats/Leftists, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Guns, Islam, Islamofascism, Journalism, Liberals, Media Bias, Palestinians, President, Race, Religion, Security/Safety, Society/Culture, Terrorism, War on Terror, Warner Todd Huston | 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Plus, Ron Reagan couples “tea baggers” with Murderer Nidal Hasan.

In 2008 The George Washington University Homeland Security Institute (HSPI) initiated a transition task force to help craft homeland security policies during Obama’s transition period. In May of 2009 HSPI finished its report titled, “Thinking Anew-Security Priorities for the Next Administration.” One of the members of this Obama transition project was none other than the Muslim murderer Nidal Hassan.

Nidal is listed in Appendix C, Page 29 of the HSPI report as having served as a “Task Force Event Participant,” in his position with the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine. (download .pdf of report) We should caution, though, that Hasan did not work for Obama. But he was a part of the University’s efforts to advise Obama.

The HSPI fashions itself a “think and do tank” and claims its mission as that of building “bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through an interdisciplinary approach.” I wonder if one of those bridges leads to “understanding” the mindset of terrorists like Hasan, a participant in George Washington University’s “think and do” mission?

There is also video of Hasan participating at the GWU event.

So what of Obama? Why he’s still trying to understand this “tragic shooting.” Hours after the murderous rampage concluded, Obama made some rather facile comments after his jaunty opening remarks to members of America’s “First Nations” consisting of a long list of special “shout outs” to participants there.
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Wars and Dead Soldiers

November 5, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Elections, Freedom, Government, Corruption, John Armor, Liberals, President, Society/Culture, Taxes | Comments Off

-By John Armor

Late last week, in the dead of night. President Obama made an unannounced trip to Dover, Delaware, where he was photographed saluting some flag-covered coffins that were coming in from Afghanistan. There were about 18 coffins on this day. And afterwards, Obama said that this experience “would influence his decision” on troop levels and future policies in the war in that Afghanistan.

Well, first I fault the press. I’ve been saying for years that facts on war casualties, in Iraq, Afghanistan, or wherever, is defective. The national importance of casualties should be gauged by relative casualties in other, American wars. It’s called context. It is especially important in public issues involving deaths of Americans.

Is a disease or condition that kills ten children a year as worthy of public attention and millions of dollars of spending as a another disease that kills a thousand children a year? Put the question that way, and any sensible citizen or sensible politician will say, of course not. The focus and the spending should go where it will save the most lives, do the most good.

But that sort of question cannot be answered without the comparative statistics. Few things matter in the abstract. It is only when put in context that the importance of most fact can be weighed. By and large, the American press does not put death stories – civilian or military – in comparative context.

Iran: Can Obama play hardball?

November 4, 2009 | Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Europe, Foreign Policy, Government, Corruption, Iran, Islam, Islamofascism, Israel, Liberals, President, Society/Culture, Terrorism, Thomas Brewton, War on Terror, Western Civilization | Comments Off

-By Thomas E. Brewton

Robert Kagan’s Washington Post column gives us a look at the way the president appears to be playing his hand in the diplomatic game.

President Obama notoriously promised to bring change to our foreign policy relations. His presumption, shared by most liberal-progressives, was that every nation in the world truly desires to eschew war as a policy instrument.

Liberal-progressives take their cue from Auguste Comte’s writings in the 1820s. Comte was supremely confident that international socialism, under the rubric of his Religion of Humanity, would bring people from all over the world to learn from French intellectuals the means for restructuring political society. Restructured societies, with socialistic redistribution of wealth, would no longer experience crime, aggression, or war. Acting as moral judges, intellectuals would dictate appropriate rules for personal and international relations.

The way to realize those presumed universal peace desires, in the liberal-progressive scenario, is to be sensitive, even obsequious, and never to take military or diplomatic action unilaterally. To show its faith in the promise of world peace and benevolence under international socialism, the United States is to set an example for the world by disarming itself and reducing its economic and military power to rough equality with such powers in the rest of the world.

This diplomatic paradigm, faithfully followed by President Obama in his dealings with our self-declared enemies, has so far produced nothing more than promises.
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