Too bad to be true?
Scott has written about the fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas-day bomber, was interrogated by the FBI instead of the “High Value Detainee Interrogation Group.” The creation of this Group — the HIG — was announced with some fanfare a year ago by President Obama who, having shut down the CIA’s [...]
In Massachusetts, GOP win blow to Obama - Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON — The stunning Republican victory in Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate race will force Democrats to fundamentally rethink the meaning of Barack Obama’s election, especially the notion that Americans want government help in matters such as …
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Does art therapy cure terrorism? Our government thought so
Reading the newspaper is often a surreal experience these days, but I can’t recall my jaw dropping quite as far as it did when I read this piece in the Washington Post about how former Gitmo detainees “have led and fueled” the increasingly dangerous al Qaeda movement in Yemen.
The basic facts, though [...]
500 Reasons to Reject the Notion That the Science on AGW Is Settled
Here’s a link to an informative site with 500 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of “Man-Made” Global Warming, from this well-worded introduction at Stop the ACLU:
Of all the lies that the media has rammed down the public’s throat in the interest of promoting progressive statism, the most outlandish may be that there is anything resembling a [...]
Let’s not get carried away
I liked much of President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech well enough, but I wouldn’t try to build a religion around it. Or even a doctrine.
Yet, according to Politico, some folks (I suspect White House spinmeisters) purport to see the making of an Obama doctrine: “a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of [...]
An End to Partisanship and Cynicism
President Obama last night:
This vast and diverse citizenry will not always agree on every issue — nor should we. But I also know that we, as a country, cannot sustain our leadership, nor navigate the momentous challenges of our time, if we allow ourselves to be split asunder by the same rancor and cynicism [...]
