South African television and radio journalist, and war correspondent, Lara Logan, has blown the lid off the official position on the war against radical Islam, and the campaign in Afghanistan. "We think we've won the campaign when they haven't begun to fight." Former ambassador Ryan Crocker.

As they say, "denial ain't just a river in Egypt". Ironically Egypt ain't looking any better-off than Libya, but that's for another post. It is just very difficult now to deny the timeline leading to the attack in Libya, and they know it. As the Congressional hearings begin today on the 9/11/12 attack in Benghazi, [...]

CBS “60 Minutes” war correspondent Lara Logan gave an ominous speech to a large gathering in Chicago the other day. Her words greatly contradict the Obama administration's narrative on the Afghan war and the threat from al-Qaida. The administration just figured al-Qaida would disappear without their leader, and the Taliban would simply settle down and [...]

Superb essay: "The Anti-Blasphemy, Anti-First-Amendment President." Who said the following: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” Iran’s Ahmadinejad? Egypt’s Morsi? Some little-known, fatwa-flinging cleric increasing the bounty on Salman Rushdie’s head? None of the above. The words are President Obama’s, and he spoke them this week to the [...]

Jim Geraghty ponders a sentence from Obama's UNGA speech that, quite frankly, has vexed me as well since hearing it live a couple days ago. Let's look at it in Obama context, shall we? And as we have seen again and again, Obama context is always much worse than the 'out-of-context'... "The future must not [...]

Nobody says it better, or more frankly than Pat Condell. More from Roger Kimball at PJM... It’s often observed that Islam is an iconoclastic religion: they don’t like images of many things, especially of the prophet-in-chief, Ab? al-Q?sim Mu?ammad ibn ?Abd All?h ibn ?Abd al-Mu??alib ibn H?shim, i.e., Muhammad. We know this from, Oh, many [...]

Here's a audio recording of Brian Cosgrove dying on the 105th floor of 2 World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 as he spoke to 911 emergency services in New York. I post this so that all of us know who we are fighting. There is nothing new here. In one way or another, Islam, [...]

Mark Steyn on Obama's response to this week's crises: So, on a highly symbolic date, mobs storm American diplomatic facilities and drag the corpse of a U.S. ambassador through the streets. Then the president flies to Vegas for a fundraiser. No, no, a novelist would say; that's too pat, too neat in its symbolic contrast. [...]

Once again, we have to rely on the foreign press to get news the domestic propagandists won't give us: In the wake of the deadly U.S. consulate attack in Libya’s second-largest city, disturbing images have emerged of the embassy, which is now little more than bloodied rubble that has been looted, torched, and trampled upon. [...]

Right now Rep. Michelle Bachmann is having a heated back and forth with Rep. Keith Ellison over CAIR and The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States. Right now it's pages and pages of letters being exchanged, with Ellison painting Bachmann as a nut. The FBI is reporting it was too concerned about political correctness and [...]

Frankly, the alliance of the communist left and radical Islam gives me nightmares. I first became aware of this frightening trend years ago when my husband and  I noticed a definite anti-Israel bias in LA Times articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.   Always, always, these biased articles were penned by liberals, supposedly the tolerant, peace loving defenders [...]

"Democracy" ... Somebody can serve you rattle snake and tell you "it tastes just like chicken", but it's still rattle snake. Egypt held their first elections since the Obama administration helped influence the ousting of ally Hosni Mubarak from the country's leadership. As expected the country's secular government is now about to convert to an [...]

For the last few years people have been poo-pooing the fact that terror groups, such as Hezbollah, have been training the Mexican drug cartels in Mexico, and Central and South America (more here and here), with the USA as the target in-mind. Do they really think it's all just anti-American hand-holding comradery photo-ops between Venezuela's [...]

September 11, 2001 became the defining moment of my political life. All the never thought of lessons of patriotism taught by my parents and educators, and reinforced by a childhood filled with 4th of July celebrations, all the carefully chosen books, movies and culture I was exposed to crystallized that day. It was the moment [...]

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