Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Liz Cheney Fights Back On Terror Trials

KeepAmericaSafe.com "The father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl slammed the Obama administration’s decision to hold a public trial for admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed — who boasted of killing his son in Pakistan."

Al Qaeda's Civil Liberties Union

Weekly Standard "Who are KSM's lawyers, in any event? They are members of the ACLU's John Adams Project, ...The John Adams Project represents Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other 9/11 conspirators the Obama administration has decided to move to U.S. soil for trial. Thus, it is not surprising that the ACLU has praised the controversial move, saying it was "a major victory for due process and the rule of law."...."But the ACLU cannot tell the difference between us and our enemies--as its own propaganda shows. Therefore, it does not bode well for America's counterterrorism efforts that the Obama administration is in agreement with al Qaeda's useful idiots."

Life begins again

World Magazine "A Planned Parenthood director in Texas has a change of heart after watching a baby ‘crumple’ on an ultrasound".... " She has been accused of trying to become the next right-wing media darling but points out that Planned Parenthood took the story public first—she was hoping to just move on with her life."

Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood

By Victor Davis Hanson "Every few months either an Islamic-inspired terrorist plot will be foiled, or a young Muslim male will shoot, run down or stab someone while invoking anger at non-Muslims.In other words, the attack on Fort Hood happened on schedule. It was the rule, not the exception. And something like it will occur again — soon."

Another Starbucks e-mail circulating

Snopes FALSE. Read the account here.

Video: Obama’s teleprompter malfunctions during family dinner

The Onion h/t to Hot Air

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Townhall

12 brave men and women needed for trial of evil 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

NY Daily News "In the 2006 trial of Sept. 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui in Virginia, jurors were picked up and dropped off at constantly changing rendezvous spots far from the courthouse and whisked inside as snipers and a wall of blazers stood by." Read more Here: Then here: With this momentous decision [Holder] has cheapened the value of U.S. citizenship.

Get Used to an Exceptional President and an Unexceptional Country

By Victor Davis Hanson "After another year of all this apologizing, revisionism, ahistoricism, and separation of Obama the Nobel Prize winner from Obama the U.S. president, no one will quite remember that it was the Chinese and Russians who butchered millions of their own and threatened the free world during the Cold War, or that from the Middle East we got international terrorism, crippling oil boycotts, and energy cartels, or that Reagan helped crash the Soviet Union, or that the Japanese started WWII at Pearl Harbor."

Dog lovers: GET A TISSUE READY...

Boortz "If this doesn't bring tears to your eyes, you have no heart. Gracie the dog greets her dad just back from Afghanistan."

Thoughts from the Later Republic

By Victor Davis Hanson "These are the most interesting of times: we are witnessing nothing less than an attempt in just 10 months to reinvent the United States at home and abroad into something it never was, led by someone who, the more soothing, comforting, and melodic his speech-making, the more bruising, cut-throat, and ruthless the act that follows."

September 10? It’s Worse Than That

By Andrew C. McCarthy "How was the Blind Sheikh convicted? By presenting to the jury his fiery sermons and private meetings with the faithful, often in mosques where he urged barbarous strikes against America, swaddled in accurate quotations of the Koran and other Muslim scripture. Of course, he claimed that such exhortations were protected speech. That is, he made exactly the same arguments the Islamist Left has spent the last eight years beating into the country, including into the Justice Department and the FBI. But back in 1995, those arguments were seen for the nonsense that they were."

About that Holder rationale for trying KSM in New York...

Clarice Feldman "As he told us last Friday, Eric Holder wants to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian courts because he (mostly) attacked civilians, while the attackers of the USS Cole will be sent to a military tribunal. The Dallas Morning News explained:".... "And if the next batch of terrorists are clever enough to attack an elementary school will they be tried in juvenile court?" The real reason we're trying terrorists in civilian courts "...They may be "heinous criminals, terrorists" but basically they're criminals who have "to be treated. . .with great. . .sensitivity to the crimes they've committed against America.""

Lloyd Marcus: Top Ten Reasons Black America Fears Rush Limbaugh

American Thinker "I am a black man who, since 1993, has been a regular listener of the Rush Limbaugh radio program. I must caution black America. Be afraid, be very afraid of this powerful white man. Regular listening to him could be devastating to the psyche of the 96% of black Americans who voted for Obama. I have compiled the following Top Ten list of reasons why."

The diplomacy of deference

Politico "But White House aides say the approach is deliberate — part of Obama’s determination to deliver on his campaign promise of directly engaging friends and enemies alike, giving America a less belligerent posture abroad." So O isn't an ignoramus but is doing penance around the world for all of us. Why Does Obama Keep Bowing? "President Obama’s silent bow is yet another way of apologizing for America’s misperceived arrogance and superiority. He has found yet another way to pander and apologize without ever uttering a single word."....When the president bows to heads of state, various representatives of foreign governments or any other “leader” he sends a message that America is weak and subservient.

Major Garrett Among White House Correspondents to Interview Pres. Obama Today

Media Bistro "It's official. Fox News' Major Garrett will interview Pres. Obama at 9:20pm ET tonight. He tweets: "I will interview POTUS on camera Wed am here in Beijing. 4 other networks will too. 10 mins per. Many had asked. Can say now. Follow @MajoratWH..."

Trial and Terror; The Left gets its reckoning.

By Andrew C. McCarthy "Obama and Holder have needlessly created a perilous dilemma. Do we deny KSM & Co. the right to represent themselves and thus risk reversal of any convictions on Sixth Amendment grounds? Do we grant them self-representation but withhold critical discovery and thus risk reversal on due process grounds? Or do we grant them self-representation and disclose directly to our wartime enemies the nation’s security secrets, which they can then pass on to confederates who are actively targeting us for mass-murder attacks?"

The new wave of female firebrands striking fear into liberal America

UK Guardian "Right-wing radicals* are already pinning presidential ambitions on a mother-of-five from Minnesota who calls herself a 'fool for Christ' and condemns Obama as a socialist at the head of a gangster regime." *Their words, not mine.