Flotsam and Jetsam
Trouble back home: “Sue Lowden has established herself as the far-ahead GOP front-runner in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race and the Republican most likely to beat Sen. Harry Reid, even with a Tea Party...
View ArticleLobbying for the Impossible
David Cole, writing in the May 3, 2010, edition of the Nation, notices a curious silence about the Obama administration’s recent decision to green-light the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, an...
View ArticleDid Terrorist Detainees’ Lawyers Endanger CIA Agents?
Eli Lake reports: Covertly taken photos of CIA interrogators that were shown by defense attorneys to al Qaeda inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison represent a more serious security breach than the 2003...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
It took Barack Obama to turn an ex-president into a sleazy “bag man.” What will it take for the left to break with the anti-Semites, racists, and Israel-bashers? “Democracy for America, the progressive...
View ArticleWe Only Expected Competence
It somehow has never dawned on the Obama devotees who like to cite the administration’s “inherited mess” that this president’s failures don’t exactly reflect the overcautiousness of a leader...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jestsam
Not like it’s out of the blue: “The number of U.S. Voters who view the issue of Taxes as Very Important has jumped 10 points from May to its highest level ever in Rasmussen Reports tracking. Still,...
View ArticlePoliticizing Prosecutions
It was not too long ago that the Obama team was excoriating the Bush administration for playing politics with the judicial system and unconscionably delaying the prosecution of Guantanamo detainees....
View ArticleOn Burning the Koran
According to the Wall Street Journal: The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and...
View ArticleBest Supporting Role in a Civil Rights Cover-Up
Hollywood is not the only place where self-congratulatory awards are plentiful. Andrew Malcolm notes that the Obama Department of Justice has handed out a slew of these — more than 300 (if you didn’t...
View ArticleThe Policies That Keep Us Safe
The foiled package-bomb plot originating in Yemen is the latest sign of how determined Islamist extremists remain in trying to strike the United States. Just in the past year, we have seen the shooting...
View ArticleNever Mind, Forget the KSM Trial
With the midterms in the rearview mirror the Obama administration can now admit the obvious: a public trial for KSM is impossible. The Washington Post reports: Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the...
View ArticleObama’s Fall from Grace
“Campaigning is different than governing,” President Obama told reporters during his return flight from Asia this weekend. When asked about his meeting with GOP leaders later this week, Obama said:...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
I’m with Ben Chandler on this one. “Kentucky Rep. Ben Chandler is blaming President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the Democrats’ poor showing nationally in the Nov. 2 elections. … ‘If...
View ArticleAssange Now Blackmailing the U.S. Government
Some Julian Assange supporters have dismissed the potential national-security risk of WikiLeaks as an unfortunate, but unavoidable, consequence of the fight for more government transparency. But now...
View ArticleCyberwar Is Here. Now What?
When al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11, the country discovered to its complete shock that it was at war and ill-prepared to do much about it. Once again, the U.S. is waking up to the fact that it’s...
View ArticleGitmo Will Stay Open (But It’s Really, Really Bad)
The Obama administration now acknowledges what the rest of us already knew. You can’t close a facility housing stateless unlawful enemy combatants with a presidential signature. “The White House...
View ArticleAfternoon Commentary
Vladmir Putin’s political opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky was convicted of money laundering and embezzlement yesterday in what many have denounced as a show-trial. The verdict came as no surprise to...
View ArticleObama Takes Moral Step Backward in Treatment of Suspected Terrorists
“No part of President Obama’s agenda has been as thoroughly repudiated as the one regarding terrorist detainees,” the Wall Street Journal has editorialized. That verdict seems reasonable given Mr....
View ArticleBin Laden’s Son-in-Law and U.S. Detention Policy
It’s been more than a decade since 9/11, but we still haven’t figured out how to treat captured terrorists. The latest evidence comes from the extradition of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and onetime...
View ArticleThe Constitution Project’s Dangerous Complacency on Terror
It is ironic that the Boston Marathon bombing occurred the same day that a Washington think tank called the Constitution Project unveiled a report, signed by a bipartisan group of retired worthies,...
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