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 →
Obama reacts to critics of his immigration policy with the sort of style and substance we’ve come to expect of our president: Speaking to reporters Wednesday morning in the Philippines, Obama scoffed at attempts to block refugees following the Paris … Continue reading →
A shoot out left some dead and some in custody: For the second time in a week, gunfire and explosions ripped through France on Wednesday — this time in an hours-long ordeal that ended with at least two terror suspects … Continue reading →
It really was inevitable that Bobby Jindal would drop out of the race. He never really caught on, and he knows when it’s time to quit: “I’ve come to the realization that this is not my time,” Jindal said on … Continue reading →
It’s no secret that Marco Rubio is vulnerable with conservatives on his Gang of Eight history. On reading this Powerline piece about Cruz’s possible vulnerabilities (which don’t seem that bad to me, by the way) it occurs to me this … Continue reading →
At first I read this article thinking that the escuses offered by Faklan Abdeslam—the mother of Paris suicide bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam, who blew himself up during the Paris attacks, injuring another man—were mordantly, bitterly, absurd. Faklan, by the way, is … Continue reading →
We knew it anyway, but now it’s official, according to Russia: A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia’s FSB security service said Tuesday, telling Russian President Vladimir Putin it’s … Continue reading →
…but the fingerprints were real.
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