January 4, 2014 – 8:39 am
It’s a good thing “Bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda is on the run“. Otherwise I’d be worried about the spread of Islamists and al Qaeda specifically (Washington Post) A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic […]
December 29, 2013 – 2:54 pm
I’m not going to delve to deep into the NY Times idiocy over the Benghazi attack. So many have already done so. Here’s what Kit at Victory Girls Blog (who I linked in the Patriotic Pinup post) wrote I’m not sure when the New York Times decided to try publishing news again, but they’re still […]
December 27, 2013 – 3:13 pm
And, unsurprisingly, he’s whining at Congress (Reuters) After signing the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2014, Obama noted that Congress retained regulations that prevent the transfer of prisoners to American soil, where they could be tried in federal court. “The executive branch must have the authority to determine when and where to prosecute Guantanamo […]
November 12, 2013 – 8:06 am
Remember, this is just an isolated incident, it’s not part of a wider problem (News and Observer) A Cary man is facing a federal charge that he attempted to aid a foreign terrorist organization, according to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI in federal court last week. Basit Javed Sheikh of Cary is suspected […]
October 25, 2013 – 8:22 am
Just a few days after the September 11, 2012 attack on our consulate, CIA annex, and people in Benghazi Mr. Obama had this to say “What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice,” Obama said at a campaign speech in […]
August 30, 2013 – 7:57 am
Poor Obama. So far, the only two countries he has engaged in a coalition of the willing or something has been France and England. And England has said “nope, no thanks”, in terms of attacking Syria. Well, their Parliament voted against any action on a narrow vote, anyhow, since PM David Cameron did something wild […]
August 15, 2013 – 8:33 am
Senators Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin are super upset that the Gitmo detention facility is still open in the era of HopeNchange (LA Times) The detention facility on our military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is holding 166 individuals. Most of them have been there a decade or more. Operating Guantanamo costs about $450 million […]
June 20, 2013 – 3:55 pm
Put this one down to a case of “just wondering”, but, hey, it’s not like The Government would ever lie about something, right? (Wired) Â Did the government really disrupt a bomb plot targeting the New York Stock Exchange? The FBI deputy director said that today in a Spygate hearing where the government for the first […]
June 19, 2013 – 8:15 am
This is the same Taliban that the Obama administration has wanted to have peace talks with for most of his presidency (Yahoo News) President Barack Obama warmly welcomed the announcement on Tuesday of fresh reconciliation talks between Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban, as well as plans to launch a new round of direct negotiations between […]
June 13, 2013 – 9:05 am
So says the head of the NSA (NY Times) The director of the National Security Agency told Congress on Wednesday that “dozens†of terrorism threats had been halted by the agency’s huge database of the logs of nearly every domestic phone call made by Americans, while a senator briefed on the program disclosed that the […]
