Forgetful Eric
Senator John Kyl is skeptical of Attorney General Eric Holder’s claim that forgetfulness explains his failure to inform the Senate of his role in a brief supporting the position of terrorist Jose Padilla. Kyl asks: “Are we expected to believe that then-nominee Holder, with only a handful of Supreme Court briefs to his [...]
Fox News Poll: Majority of Americans Think Obama Better at Campaigning Than Governing
As though we really needed a poll to tell us this; after all, we’re reminded of Obama’s ineptitude at governance every time he opens his mouth.
Fox News poll: The consensus among American voters is Barack Obama is better at campaigning for the job than at doing the job.
Looking at the issues, President Obama receives [...]
The High Cost of Misunderstanding Terrorism
The Obama administration will include $200 million in next year’s budget to help defray the security costs resulting from the criminal trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 terrorists. This is infuriating, of course: why should the taxpayers have to foot that expense?
But it is also illuminating. Why, exactly, [...]
Pew Research Center: Health Care Ranks Eighth on List of Public Priorities
Andrew Kohut at Pew has released a fascinating survey on public priorities. No surprise, the economy and jobs are numbers one and two, respectively. Number three is terrorism. Where does health care rank? Eighth. It trails behind Social Security, education, Medicare, and deficit reduction.
Up until recently, Democrats have been able to dismiss polls that show the [...]
Obama’s year of living dangerously . . . and ours
“It is no accident that until the Christmas near-catastrophe, and for an uncomfortable period thereafter, the Obama administration was reluctant to speak of being at war either with terrorism or with the militant Islamists who engage in it. Throughout 2009, whether the issue was interrogating and sidelining terrorists, fighting them on the battlefield, or dealing [...]
Insanity: Importing Terrorists Instead Of Kicking Them Out
Providing diversity visas to terrorist nations is nothing less than the equivalent of having a death wish and acting on it. It’s insane.
Yet the U.S. continues with the State Department’s diversity visa lottery as a means of getting to the U.S. Included in the lottery are all four countries the U.S considers state sponsors [...]
