Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 10:10AM By Yomin Postelnik
Fighting terror, especially home grown terror, is not always hard. Instead of pandering to perceived popular opinion, we need to simply address where terrorists recruit and what can be done to curb recruitment. As with so much else, all politics (and most solutions) are local.
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 1:59PM I was chatting about the Fort Hood attack with my brother Brian, and an old sore point arose; turns out that Sgt. Kimberly Munley was immediately credited as the hero, despite suffering from several gunshot wounds, but this turned out to be incorrect, and the real hero was a man - Sgt. Mark Todd. Not to take anything away from Sgt. munley, but the media was quick to report that she, and not her male counterpart, was the hero in this situation, and it was (1) patently untrue. This is a sorespot because it is yet one more example of efforts by the military and the media to create a female war hero where none exists. It has happened several times before.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 11:20PM By Douglas V. Gibbs
For the first time since 9/11 I do not feel like the United States Government is doing all it can to protect America from terrorism.
The national security component of the Obama Administration has been undeniably weak since Barack took office on January 20. American voters chose change partly because they felt that McCain was too old, and they didn’t trust Sarah Palin to receive that call at 3:00 AM. Real America, we were told by the feigning press, was tired of Bush’s War, and John McCain promised to be more of the same. Barack Obama campaigned that he would shut down Guantanamo Bay, weaken our defenses, and head to the negotiation table with no pre-existing conditions with the Islamic tyrants of the world. In the end, we were made to believe, America would be safe, and peace would somehow weave its way onto the world stage filled with global understanding, and fields of poppies.
A lone, piercing cry of “You lie!” shook everyone out of the daydream.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 4:52PM by Timothy Birdnow
When partial birth abortionist George Tiller was killed, the media went bananas, and his murder was chalked up to “right wing terrorists” and given as proof that Americans were racist bigots unwilling to allow a black man serve as president. But now the shoe is on the other foot, with a michigan man being shot and killed while protesting against abortion (in front of a school) and nary a peep is heard from the Fourth Estate.
James Pouillon was shot (1) while picketing across the street from the Owosso high school by one Harlan Drake, who has admitted to shooting Pouillon because he carried a larger sign than others. Pouillon has since died of his injuries.
Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 10:44AM
By Diana West If we ever understand the spread of Islam into heretofore non-Islamic societies as the spread of Islamic law, rather than the spread of just another “religion,” we might actually perceive the danger it poses to our own law and liberty — and act accordingly. This means, for starters, halting Islamic immigration as a means of preventing the adoption of sharia by popular demand. As we can see in Britain, where sharia courts are now recognized by the government, a Muslim population of just 3 percent can produce a lot of popular demand. Whether this understanding comes in demographic time is the big question. Meanwhile, back at the White House, it’s Ramadan time, which, of course, is universally treated and regarded as merely a religious holiday for the White House to celebrate with constituent-worshippers, OIC ambasaadors, even the occasional unindicted co-conspirator. But if we think beyond the generic notion of religious diversity and consider the specific ramifications of Islamic law, questions begin to dawn. Some heretofore unimagined number of the guests supping with the president must be proponents of the spread of islamic law, no? Even the spread of Islamic law… in the United States?
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 9:54PM By Douglas V. Gibbs
Glenn Greenwald, liberal writer extraordinaire, has likened the plight of an entire young nation during the Revolutionary War to the treatment of detainees captured because they waged war against American Troops and the American People. In his article, “Thomas Paine v. the Right’s torture defenders,” Mr. Greenwald is willing to utter that the treatment of people who desire to topple all non-Muslim entities worldwide somehow are similar to the young Americans who fought selflessly against a tyrannical British Government. Somehow, in Mr. Greenwald’s mind, torture equals anything that may be considered unpleasant.
I wonder if making the Gitmo prisoners sleep on beds not approved by the orthopedic association is torture to Mr. Greenwald, and his Leftist buddies?
In Greenwald’s article he takes pop shots at GOP Congressman Peter King for daring to speak out against Eric Holder’s decision to investigate the CIA interrogators. Specifically, he cites court cases to prove that the terrorists fall under the Geneva Convention.
Greenwald also proclaims that “scores of people have died in American custody as a result of interrogation tactics,” thus placing the lives of these cold blooded killers as more important than the lives of Americans (and he’s lying, by the way - “scores” have not died as a result of American interrogation tactics).
Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 1:44PM By Douglas V. Gibbs
The release of Abdel Beset al-Megrahi, the Libyan terrorist convicted of killing 270 people in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, by Scotland’s Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, was unbelievably cruel to the families of the victims of that flight.
MacAskill claimed the release was for humanitarian reasons, since al-Megrahi suffers from a terminal case of prostate cancer. The Scottish judiciary decided they wished to be kind to the murderer of 270 people, and let him die of his cancer at home.
I wonder how surprised MacAskill was when Libya welcomed al-Megrahi home like he was some kind of hero.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 1:01AM By Diana West
Andrew Bostom illuminates the reason the media is blind to the significance and potential consequences of the Riqfa Bary story at the American Thinker today: why, as he puts it, “Rifqa Bary faces death for her apostasy from Islam, while the media ignores the solid religious and institutional grounding for the practice.”
The story of the 17-year-old apostate from Islam who says she ran away from home in Ohio and sought refuge with a Florida church group to avoid becoming a victim of an “honor killing” at the hands of her Sri Lankan Muslim family has largely played out online at such blogs as Atlas Shrugs and Jawa Report. Big Media have ignored the story — Fox News excepted.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 9:44PM By Douglas V. Gibbs
A seventeen year old set off two pipe bombs, and was trying to start a chainsaw, setting off an evacuation at San Mateo Hillsdale High School. Armed with a sword, and eight more pipe bombs strapped to his body, the Columbine-style plot was stopped short as police apprehended the teen.
After the two bombs went off, the teen was confronted by teachers. After he fled, a third teacher caught up to him and tackled him. The suspect was held down by the third teacher who was later assisted by the school principal.
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 4:39PM By Alan Caruba
I don’t pretend to be an expert on Arabs, Arab culture, or Arab history, but I do know a bit about our own as Americans. And that worries me.
While our American values are deep-seated and enduring, our short-term memories are such that we have to be severely provoked to call on them. We tend to forget the many attacks and abuses Americans have suffered at home and abroad at the hands of Arabs and others of the Muslim faith.
I was thinking about this while watching Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, greet the returning “hero” of the Lockerbie bombing that, in December 1988, killed all 259 passengers on board, many of whom were returning college students and eleven on the ground in Scotland. A large crowd showed up to cheer for Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.
As this is being written, all across the Arab world, this acknowledged Libyan intelligence officer is being portrayed as an innocent victim of the Lockerbie bombing; someone wrongly convicted of being part of the plot. That’s what the Arab press is saying. There is virtually no crime an Arab commits that cannot be explained away so long as it involves revenge for one of their long-standing grievances.