George Will makes a case of the anti-Constitutionality of Congress trying to shove health care down the nation’s collective throat.
It is not so much that Ross Douthat of the New York Times disses the preachy, finger-wagging James Cameron hit piece in Avatar; few would say that Cameron isn’t perhaps the best director of his day. His ability to tell a wonderful story and wow the audiences with amazing special effects is unparalleled.
Rather, Douthat’s criticism lies in the heavy-handed, quasi-New Age rubbish Hollywood shoves down unsuspecting filmgoers’ throats in an attempt by a small cadre of atheists and pantheists to dethrone Christianity as the cultural centerpiece of this nation. This is not the first time in history anti-Christian forces heaped scorn on Christianity, and the religion will survive well enough. At least he didn’t release it during Easter.
Cross-posted at Steinblóm.
There’s nothing like hearing the cacophony of a bunch of Liberals choking on their lattes. Good for Sarah Palin, good for Fox for having the brains to hire her, and good to the haters who deserve their self-induced hissy-fit.
Cross-posted at A Conservative Compendium.
I’m not prepared to say that the POTUS himself hates the United States. If anything, I find him to be a bit of a jellyfish on matters of substance, as he makes for a good marionette and little else. However, the staffers around him either have a perverse sense of humor, or an utter hatred for the history and traditions of this country by placing on a Christmas tree the picture of a man who spilled far more blood than even Adolf Hitler ever did in Mao Zedong. Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government has more.
So here we are once again, with a terrorist threat nearly thwarted by the expert skill of those in charge. Those elected and appointed to safeguard the lives of American citizens foiled the man who is now known as ‘the underwear bomber.’ Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, hid explosive powder in his underwear and an explosive gel alone his legs. With a blanket covering his lower body, he began to mix the two together. Thankfully though, he was stopped.
That would all be well and good if it was true. While the part about the explosives is true, the part about our government saving the day was not. Those two compounds needed to be mixed and settle for a half an hour before they were ignited. He waited twenty minutes. If he had waited another 10 minutes, there would have been a huge explosion, and three hundred or more lives would have been lost. The airliner would have gone up and the damage on the tarmac and airport would have been unimaginable.
AbdulMutallab’s father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab is one of his countries wealthiest bankers. He was so disturbed by the radicalization of his son that he went to the officials of his country, who them took him to the American embassy and local CIA officials. He claimed that his son had been radicalized by Islamic militants in Yemen, and told them all that he had learned from his son. Reports were sent to the CIA headquarters in Langley, VA.
AbdulMutallab’s name was added to a list of half a million suspects with suspected terrorist ties. They did not place his name on the country’s no-fly list, and they did not contact Yemeni intelligence officials, according to the Yemen government. The ball was completely dropped. It could have been a lazy bureaucrat who didn’t file the case report quickly or thoroughly enough. It’s more likely however, that through political correctness has so engulfed and strangled our intelligence apparatus that we simply have forgotten how to get into the fight and protect ourselves
Israel has not has had an airline attack in decades, because they profile those who are a danger to them. Those with bombs and guns are searched, and arrested. I’ll make the point very bluntly: Safeguarding the lives of innocents is more important than potentially inconveniencing a foreigner or two. If they are on a list of any kind, they should have to go through extra screening to enter the United States. We should not care about their inconvenience and feelings. Why should we risk our way of life?
Janet Napolitano’s greatest contribution to the Department of Homeland Security was her memo on profiling conservatives in the country as possible homegrown terrorists, but not Muslims. So terrified of the ACLU and the Daily Kos they have become that those in charge with our security would allow a would-be terrorist into our borders in order to seem ‘nice.’
President Obama said that there would be an investigation. He gave off a speech that said led the impression that heads would soon roll. However, I know that Obama shares the same ideology as Napolitano, Pelosi, and all the rest of them. He may want to plug a hole in security because it reflects poorly on him, happening on his watch. I doubt he would try AbdulMutallab under a military tribunal, or consider any solution, which did not immediately make it more difficult to prevent further things like this from happening. It is more likely that a far greater number of heads would roll if someone had not read this terrorist his rights and afforded him constitutional protection and a fresh latte.
Mr. President, let the CIA and FBI talk to each other. Tear down the politically correct veil that had blinded us to threats and tied our hands. Let us profile those who are on lists and considered a threat. Lets stop giving Visas to people on watch lists, or revoke them once they are placed on said list.
Why should we risk our way of life?
For up-to-date events and pictures on what’s happening in Iran, this blog, run by Mehdi Saharkhiz, is worth checking out.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
The ghost of the Administration of George W. Bush still haunts President Obama. The Christmas terrorism attempt seems to be the final straw for a good deal of those holdouts and hangers-on who hoped (and changed) against hope that our leader would mature into a president everyone could rally around. He has been an abysmal failure at everything he’s touched. The cat-calls from the psychotic branch of the Democratic Party have no effect, as they can’t blame anything anymore on Republicans. Their heads spin, however, at the sight of Dick Cheney rightfully criticizing this poseur of a President as he drops balls from the economy to keeping the country safe. The most amusing thing to see, however, is NOT Dick Cheney calling out the POTUS; rather, it is to watch the Left eat its own, as Maureen Dowd does to Barack Obama in her most recent column. His administration will fall the way of Jimmy Carter’s did in 1980. Will be end up with a Reagan-type leader or a “country-club” idiot running the country next? Eyes have moved forward as this president has effectively become a lame duck.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Heshmat Tabarzadi smells revolution in the air in Tehran. Pray for it.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Even MSNBC, a fringe network, is drubbing CNN. I can’t see them lasting much longer unless they have a very long-term deal with airports or other places where no one will pay attention to them.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Don’t be too thrilled with the news that “single-payer” may have died in the Senate. The radical wing of the Democratic Party will find a way to sneak it in somehow, rest assured. This, despite the fact that the majority of the populace has no interest in wrecking their insurance plans.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
