Here’s a fascinating article (to me, anyway) written by a man named Teun Voeten who moved to the Molenbeek section of Brussels back in 2005 and lived there for nine years. In case you haven’t heard, Molenbeek is the area … Continue reading →
With all the news coming hot and heavy, this story has sort of fallen by the wayside. It’s about those five Syrian men intent on coming to this country through Latin America, traveling on forged Greek passports: Five Syrian men … Continue reading →
What was wrong with Jordan? A Syrian family that fled the war-torn country in 2011 was welcomed Wednesday to its new home of Connecticut after Indiana officials objected to plans for the refugees to resettle in their state. The married … Continue reading →
It’s all about the narrative, don’t you see?: Vox’s Matt Yglesias offers an essential explanation, from a sympathetic source, of how things look to Obama administration insiders. “Many senior administration officials at this point are part of the permanent national … Continue reading →
Twenty-seven people were slaughtered in a Mali hotel by Muslim terrorists. Rescuers stormed the building and found the bodies; the rest of the hostages were freed. You can find the details at the link. Up to this point, I can’t … Continue reading →
It’s not a very strong bill. Here’s the gist of it: The House easily passed a bill Thursday that would suspend the program allowing Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the U.S. until key national security agencies certify they don’t pose … Continue reading →
A new report says that, despite being a known terrorist on watch lists, Abdelhamid Abaaoud came to Europe as part of the flood of recent “Syrian refugees,” and no one knew he was there. It’s a bit complicated. Abaaoud is … Continue reading →
Say what you will about the French and their leaders, when faced with the ISIS attack in Paris, they have responded with some vigor: The French airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria are only the beginning of the counterattack … Continue reading →
Why waste time on unnecessary briefings if, like Obama you already know who’s a terrorist and who isn’t?: Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson said her sources have told her that President Barack Obama … Continue reading →
Obama’s taunt that Republicans “are scared of widows and orphans” takes on an ironic twist in light of the fact that one of the dead in Wednesday morning’s Paris raid was a female suicide bomber (who, by the way, blew … Continue reading →
The best approach to ISIS would have been prevention, an ounce of it worth far more than a pound of cure. An obvious move would have been to have kept a small residual force in Iraq, back when even Obama … Continue reading →
…before the primaries really get going. You can see what I mean from this recent poll of NH voters. Trump is way ahead—as “way ahead” is defined at this point, with so many candidates in the race. He’s get 22% … Continue reading →