What's Wrong With Socialism?

By Joe Herring  in AT   "Our job, then, is to teach the lessons of history to those who fail to see the danger. We have to provide that all-important perspective to a generation that has been denied it. We have to do this one at a time, conversation by conversation. Tell your friends the truth; don't assume they know it. Become the person your friends and family consult when the subject turns to politics."

Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson

Townhall

Who Are ‘They’?

By Victor Davis Hanson  "Racism, cited during the last weeks of the campaign as the only reason why an otherwise shoo-in Obama might lose, now often explains Obama’s falling popularity. Indeed, to the degree that Barack Obama gets what he wishes, the country is deemed to be on racial probation; to the degree he does not, it is considered recidivist and back to Jim Crow days."

Muslims must quit British Forces, says Iranian envoy Abdolhossein Moezi

UK Times "The Iranian Supreme Leader’s representative in Britain has told Muslim servicemen and women to quit the Armed Forces, saying that their involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars is forbidden by Islam."

Want freedom of Speech in the Army? Then Convert to Islam

Blackfive  "Glenn's link takes us to the Mudville Gazette  which shows why an American soldier cannot voice an opinion. At least according to the Army... It's a MUST READ!
PS: CJ was part of the 3rd ID run to Baghdad. Dog Face Soldiers, mount up!"

Explaining Away Mass Murder

By Charles Krauthammer  "The delicacy about the religion in question -- condescending, politically correct and deadly -- is nothing new. A week after the first (1993) World Trade Center attack, the same New York Times ran the following front-page headline about the arrest of one Mohammed Salameh: "Jersey City Man Is Charged in Bombing of Trade Center.""

Obama Reduces September 11th Act of War on America to a Law Enforcement Issue

Atlas Shrugs  "Imagine, the enemy is facing a civilian trial in NYC. Devastating. How much intel will be compromised when these jihad barbarians are all lawyered up?"

September 10? It’s Worse Than That

By Andy McCarthy "The post-9/11 era was supposed to be about knocking down walls that obstructed effective counterterrorism. But behold the new wall, more insidious than its suicidal Nineties forerunner: the arbitrary barrier separating terrorism from “protected” incitement — the cagey, generalized, non-specific jihadist rhetoric that is the Islamist cleric’s stock-in-trade."

Obama To Give 12M Amnesty By 2010

Sweetness&Light  "Among other things, will this not boost the number of people eligible for government subsidized health care? Has this been factored into the CBO’s cost estimates? (Of course not.)"

ACORN's Federal Judge

American Spectator   "Giving the term judicial activism new meaning, President Obama has nominated an ACORN loyalist to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the Chicago Tribune reports."

President “Dither and Waffle” Looks For Escape Hatch From Afghanistan

Gateway Pundit “His plan comes up short. There’s not enough troops, not enough resources and not enough urgency. What President Bush and Senator McCain don’t understand is that the central front in the War on Terror is not in Iraq and never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan where the terrorists who hit us on 9-11 are still plotting attacks seven years later.”  Barack Obama, Campaign Speech, Sept 9, 2008

Army says morale down among troops in Afghanistan

Yahoo News "Though findings of two new battlefield surveys are similar in several ways to the last ones taken in 2007, they come at a time of intense scrutiny on Afghanistan as President Barack Obama struggles to come up with a new war strategy and planned troop buildup."

Ann Coulter Takes on Palin-Bashing Media on CBS Early Show

Newsbusters "...I would say she is an authentic American the way most members of the media are not, that certainly Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd do not represent the average American.” "