Trusting Terrorists, Abandoning Troops

Mar 14, 2010 - Trusting Terrorists, Abandoning Troops By Ben Lerner on 3.12.10 @ 6:08AM I recently returned from a week-long media tour in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of our finest soldiers and sailors are tasked with a difficult and thankless job: guarding dangerous detainee enemy combatants captured in the course of the Global War on Terror. In the same week, Reps. Burton (R-Ind.) Rohrabacher (R-Cal.) and Gohmert (R-Tex.) presented Pentagon officials with 170,000 signatures from Americans asking that courts-martial proceedings against three Navy SEALs be dropped. - 0 Comments

Islam

Mar 02, 2010 - by  Susan Dale 03/02/2010     A ‘Profile In Courage’ the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) Is Not.   After the thankfully unsuccessful terrorist activities of the underwear bomber in an airplane over Detroit last Christmas Day, discussion resumed regarding the use of the full body scanner at American international airports.  This is a highly sensitive machine that, when used for security purposes, displays the body in its full naked glory.   It was said, after the actions on December 25th by Mr. Mutallab, that this process would have been the only way to have detected the particular technique of terror the young Nigerian was attempting to import into America.  Then along comes the perpetually zany Council of American-Islamic Relations.  In its infinite wisdom, this group disclosed their intention to sue the United States of America to prevent the aforementioned body scanner from being used on Muslim men and women. - 6 Comments

Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs

Feb 23, 2010 - Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed. Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class life who are now relying on public assistance for the first time in their lives — potentially for years to come. - 2 Comments

Sen. Frank Lautenberg diagnosed with cancer

Feb 19, 2010 - Updated 1:19 p.m.By Ben PershingNew Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) has cancer and will begin receiving chemotherapy to treat it, his office announced Friday. "After several days of hospitalization and testing, Senator Lautenberg's doctors have diagnosed that he has a B-Cell Lymphoma of the stomach," his office said in a statement. - 2 Comments

Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiative generates a childish pushback

Feb 19, 2010 -   By Kevin Huffman Saturday, February 20, 2010   Watching Shaun White drop into the halfpipe at the Vancouver Games, it's easy to forget that America is the most sedentary nation on Earth. The Daily Beast this week released the results of the Couch Potato Olympics, analyzing statistics for 24 industrialized nations in calories consumed, television watched, aversion to playing sports (yes, there's data on that) and Internet use. Congratulations, compatriots: We took home the gold! - 16 Comments

Pope Speaks on Child Abuse in Ireland

Feb 16, 2010 -   Vatican press release   Tuesday, 16 February 2010 12:58   Press release issued by the Vatican press office following the conclusion of the meeting between the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI and Irish Bishops:     'On 15 and 16 February 2010, the Holy Father met the Irish Bishops and senior members of the Roman Curia to discuss the serious situation which has emerged in the Church in Ireland.     'Together they examined the failure of Irish Church authorities for many years to act effectively in dealing with cases involving the sexual abuse of young people by some Irish clergy and religious.     'All those present recognized that this grave crisis has led to a breakdown in trust in the Church's leadership and has damaged her witness to the Gospel and its moral teaching. - 4 Comments

More Miranda Idiocy

Feb 14, 2010 - More Miranda Idiocy Rationalizations by Eric Holder about the Miranda rights of suspected terrorists lack seriousness. by Stuart Taylor Jr. Saturday, Feb. - 2 Comments

John Murtha dead at 77; longtime Pennsylvania congressman

Feb 08, 2010 -   By Martin Weil and Carol D. Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 8, 2010; 3:41 PM   Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), 77, a Vietnam veteran who staunchly supported military spending and became a master of pork-barrel politics, died today at Virginia Hospital Center following gallbladder surgery last month. - 2 Comments

Teenage girl rescued 15 days after quake

Jan 28, 2010 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A 16-year-old girl pulled from the rubble more than two weeks after a deadly earthquake was in stable condition Thursday, able to eat yogurt and mashed vegetables to the surprise of doctors, who said her survival was medically inexplicable. Hundreds of thousands of other survivors hoped for a breakthrough of another kind — the delivery of badly needed food aid. Key players in the Haiti earthquake relief effort, in what may prove to be a pivotal meeting Wednesday, decided to better coordinate by dividing up the shattered capital, giving each responsibility for handing out food in certain areas. - 7 Comments

From Canada: Conrad Black: Incompetent Obama teeters on the edge

Jan 22, 2010 - Conrad Black: Incompetent Obama teeters on the edge Posted: January 22, 2010, 11:00 AM by NP Editor Conrad Black, U.S. Politics The burning question after the Massachusetts Senate election is whether the administration responds by making a course correction to survive politically by jettisoning its policy core and cleaning up its methods, or 'doubles down,' as President Obama has implied, and escalates the ideological and guerrilla war for direction of public policy. This was a referendum on the Obama administration, including health care, not just on health care. - 2 Comments