In the second debate Obama ordered somebody—Crowley, Romney, all of us?—to “get the transcript” of his Rose Garden speech. So maybe Romney should oblige, and say something like this: Mr President, last week during our debate you told the American … Continue reading →
Apparently the wheels of justice grind slow: Witnesses and the authorities have called Ahmed Abu Khattala one of the ringleaders of the Sept. 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission [in Benghazi]. But just days after President Obama reasserted his … Continue reading →
…amidst the brouhaha about whether Obama called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” in his Rose Garden speech, and whether Candy Crowley overstepped, and all that jazz? We forgot that Obama never answered that guy’s question. We forgot—but the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I couldn’t post last night during the debate because I was driving home from New York City and listening to it on the radio. So I’m a bit late to the non-party.] First, the debate: seemingly a draw. But … Continue reading →
I noticed today that Ann Althouse asks a series of questions about why Obama decided to put out such a blatant, easily debunked, lie about Benghazi. Her queries are similar to those I was planning to ask in a post … Continue reading →
Ace writes about the deplorable lack of security at the Benghazi consulate. I can’t find a link in Ace’s post, but the information seems to come from this Politico article: The Benghazi consulate had “lock-and-key” security, not the same level … Continue reading →
Eleven years. That’s a formidable passage of time. New buildings are rising on the site of 9/11. The memorial fountains are in place, a somber and yet paradoxically beautiful tribute. The museum was stalled by a dispute, but maybe soon … Continue reading →
The first thing to say is that this was an abominable act. Information on the shooter is coming in slowly, but the best we can tell so far is that he was a white supremacist who had been discharged less … Continue reading →
This year will mark the 40th anniversary the Olympics’ darkest day, and one of the darkest in the history of the struggle against terrorism: the massacre of Israeli athletes at the hands of Palestinian terrorists in Munich in 1972. But, … Continue reading →
…died yesterday, a bit short of three years after he was released on compassionate grounds by Scottish authorities to die in three months. The reactions of the Lockerbie victims’ families were varied, as expected, since there is a rather vocal … Continue reading →
From the start of the latest underwear bomber story, I wondered who the leaker was. Now we learn more, including the fact that the undercover agent who was exposed wasn’t even our own guy, he was a British operative: The … Continue reading →
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, is now on trial along with four accomplices. And it’s in a military court rather than the civilian courts the Obama administration would have preferred. Thank goodness. One of the worst excesses of the … Continue reading →