Donald Trump dominates the news cycle again. Of all the outrageous statements he’s made in the past, his call for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is … Continue reading →
Ralph Peters has been furious at Obama for a long time. I’ve seen him every now and then on TV during the last couple of years, and he seemed to be getting angrier and angrier, gritting his teeth in order … Continue reading →
Everybody’s analyzing the speech Obama gave last night. Its beauty or lack thereof was in the eye of the beholder, although even admirers of Obama weren’t what you’d call wildly enthusiastic. But I’m going to do something nobody else is … Continue reading →
Several sources have indicated that Obama is going to give a speech tonight that won’t be political, but will focus on the big picture of global Islamist terrorism. That would be quite a change, to say the least. As Obama … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote a post about a speech Obama made in response to the San Bernardino terrorist attack. This evening at 8 PM he will be delivering another speech from the Oval Office on the subject: It will be Obama’s … Continue reading →
President Obama used his regular weekly address to discuss the San Bernardino shootings, which now have been categorized—although not by Obama—as the worst terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11. He offered very tepid stuff in terms of the terrorist … Continue reading →
There are an extraordinary number of big news items today today connected with San Bernardino, so I’m going to do what I seldom do—list some of them. (1) Work acquaintances of Syed Farook describe him. It’s chilling, not because he … Continue reading →
This caught my eye: A law enforcement official said it appeared that Wednesday’s attack — which left 14 people dead and 21 wounded before the two attackers, Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, were killed in a shootout with … Continue reading →
I’m picking on this article that appeared a few days ago in The Altantic not because it’s unusual but because it demonstrates a phenomenon that’s so common these days. The piece piece is entitled “The Fragile French Republic: The country’s … Continue reading →
The FBI keeps statistics on terrorist attacks within the US, and yesterday commenter “japan” brought up the fact that, when they count number of attacks in the last couple of decades, the vast majority have not been committed by Muslims. … Continue reading →
The current meme of the left that terrorist attacks “have nothing to do with Islam” is absurd on the face of it, an example of the tried and true Big Lie technique. And yet, as so often happens with Big … Continue reading →
See this. The Paris attacks did not accomplish all the terrorists’ goals. They had big plans for mass murder at the stadium, and perhaps even the assassination of the president of France. In that, the day resembled 9/11, where one … Continue reading →