Beating the Dead Terrorist Horse

Victor Davis Hanson , NRO "There are now proven protocols for dealing with terrorism that work and are not at odds with the Constitution. For all the talk of al-Qaeda’s resilience, it has lost thousands of its top echelon. The regime in Iran is shaky — and shakier still for the continuance of a constitutional system in neighboring Iraq. Europe is shedding its politically correct appeasement of Islam, and several countries have already enacted statutes about Islamic dress and mosques unthinkable in the United States. “Bush did it” is becoming ironic, and having the unintended consequence of reminding us how well we once defended ourselves — and how risky it is not to appreciate why and how.

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A letter to the White House

Powerline "Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee member Senator Jeff Sessions joined 21 other GOP Senators from the Judiciary, Intelligence, and Armed Services Committees to send the letter urging President Obama not to afford Abdulmutallab a civilian trial in federal court. Thieir letter is somewhat more informative than the Times article on yesterday's arraignment. This is the text of [the] letter:"

Charles Krauthammer Says Obama Talks About Terrorists as if they are "Disgruntled Postal Workers"

Freedom's Lighthouse "Krauthammer said Obama uses words like "suspect," "alleged attack," "isolated extremist," as if he's talking about a "disgruntled postal worker." It took Obama a "5th attempt" (following the attempted terror attack on Northwest Flight 253) before he actually used the language of us being in a "War on Terror.""

Devout Muslim Gang Plotted to kidnap British Soldier and 'behead him like a pig' "This atrocity would be filmed"

Atlas Shrugs "The soldier, in his 20s and from Scotland, is a “spotter” who has been working alongside a crack marksman in one of the Army’s highly-skilled two-man sniper teams. He and his colleague were hailed heroes for gunning down 32 Taliban fighters in Helmand Province. There is now real concern over revealing the details of snipers. Their activities appear to incite more reaction among radicalised Muslims in Britain than regular soldiers."

ObamaCare Opponent Removed From Sen. Reid's Town Hall Meeting, Media Mum

Newsbusters "With the brouhaha over that broken campaign promise still smoldering, one would think the Senate Majority Leader holding a well-choreographed, invitation only, no questions town hall meeting where a dissenter was physically removed would be quite newsworthy."

Government Health Care: Like Your Local Cable Monopoly on Steroids

Pajamas Media "If you enjoy customer service calls to big corporations, you will love begging for treatment from unaccountable government bureaucrats."...."But what if you’re not dealing with a corporation? What if the person on the other end of that line can’t be fired and couldn’t care less what you might say about their employer on Twitter? In other words, what if you’re dealing with the government? Ever try to get the Postal Service to pay up on your destroyed but “insured” package? That was a little different from getting Comcast to fix your bill, wasn’t it?"

Time to change course/ Prez needs to face new facts

MICHAEL BARONE "It turns out that just as the financial crisis and recession didn't much change Americans' fundamental attitudes on the balance between government and markets, so emollient talk and confessions of past American sins didn't much change the behavior of those who consider America a sworn enemy. The mullahs still want their nuclear bomb. "

But We’re Still Gonna Kill You

Mark Steyn, NRO h/t to Lucianne "Barack Obama has spent the last year doing bigtime Islamoschmoozing, from his announcement of Gitmo’s closure and his investigation of Bush officials to his bow before the Saudi King and a speech in Cairo to “the Muslim world” with far too many rhetorical concessions and equivocations. And at the end of it, the jihad sent America a thank-you note by way of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s underwear: Hey, thanks for all the outreach! But we’re still gonna kill you."

Brit Hume's Tiger Woods remarks shine light on true intolerance

Michael Gerson, WaPo "But the American idea of religious liberty does not forbid proselytization; it presupposes it. Free, autonomous individuals not only have the right to hold whatever beliefs they wish, they also have the right to change those beliefs and to persuade others to change as well. Just as there is no political liberty without the right to change one's convictions and publicly argue for them, there is no religious liberty without the possibility of conversion and persuasion."

Analysis: Obama's buck-stopping goes only so far

YahooNews "He says "the buck stops with me," but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation's troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush. Over and over, Obama keeps reminding Americans of the mess he inherited and all he's doing to fix it."