The Blind Who Will Not See: The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Iranian Death Spiral

Michael Ledeen  "I don’t get it. Is there some sort of evidence? ... So I try to imagine one of the tens of millions of Iranian opponents of the regime. Perhaps he’s got a relative in prison; he probably knows people who have lost a family member or two to the regime’s killers and torturers. He dreams of a free Iran, of an end to the humiliating circumstances in which Iranians now find themselves: widely considered to be terrorists, barbarians, and savages. And then one day somebody blows up a bunch of nuclear labs, some secret military installations, and RG headquarters in the major cities. Does that guy now rally round the supreme leader? I don’t think so.

Terror Verdict Tests Obama’s Strategy on Trials

NY Times  ..."But because a jury acquitted him on more than 280 other charges -- including every count of murder -- critics of the Obama administration’s strategy on detainees said the verdict proved that civilian courts could not be trusted to handle the prosecution of Al Qaeda terrorists. "

Does The FDA Really Need More Power?

Heritage " And the government would be reaching into a lot of new places as well. The act requires that all food “facilities”—including those home-based businesses that make jam, bread, and cheese for local markets—would be required to undertake periodic hazard analyses and produce “risk-based preventive controls.”"
Liberals being liberals.

Toy Pig's Bacon Is Saved By Angry Mums

Sky News  "A toy shop has been branded "ridiculous" by mothers after it removed a pig from a children's farm set – in case it offended Muslim and Jewish parents."

Whom should we fear more, Muslims and Jews or guilt-ridden WASP liberals?

Bernanke's `Cheap Money' Stimulus Spurs Corporate Investment Outside U.S.

Bloomberg  "Southern Copper’s plans illustrate why the Fed’s second round of bond buying may not reduce unemployment, which has stalled near a 26-year high. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues appear to be fueling a foreign-investment surge, underscoring the difficulty of stimulating the economy through monetary policy with interest rates already near record lows."

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Pamela Geller, The Guardian: The Lesson of Ghailani's Trial Fiasco

Atlas Shrugs  "On Wednesday, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian court in New York, was acquitted of all but one charge, that of conspiracy for his role in jihadist terror bombings in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, which killed 224 people. His acquittal is the first poisonous fruit of Obama's policy of treating acts of war as law enforcement issues. It also shows what is wrong with doing so.

"Apparently, the evidence charging him with 224 counts of murder could not be used in court, because "coercive" techniques were used to get information from him. The jury did find him guilty of "conspiracy to destroy government buildings". So, the al-Qaida terrorist killed 224 people and he's guilty of… destruction of public property?" Emphasis added.

Olberwomann's Worst Person in The World: Pamela Geller  "Tonight I was Keith Undershtupper's Olbermann's Worst Person in the World. And here I thought my week could not be topped. This makes the honor being given to me this on Friday night at The Breakers, the Freedom Center's Annie Taylor Award for Courage, so much richer."

Obama’s fixation on his predecessor could consume his presidency.

Victor Davis Hanson "They also did not expect that the much-heralded antidote to Bush’s swagger and “Dead or Alive” Texanisms would include bowing to Saudi princes and Chinese dictators, apologizing abroad for America’s purported sins, or spreading mythologies about the Islamic world’s contribution to the Western Renaissance and Enlightenment."

Soros's CAP gives Obama his marching orders to subvert the will of the people

Ed Lasky  "George Soros funds the Center for American Progress, which has been characterized as Barack Obama's Ideas Factory. John Podesta, its head, led the transition team when Barack Obama became President. The Center has also become a hiring hall for the Obama team, filling its positions with former employees (among these was controversial Van Jones -- who now is back at the Center)." Wikipedia photo

Napolitano: The Ball's in My Court Now (Updated)

Ann Coulter  "It's similarly pointless to treat all Americans as if they're potential terrorists while trying to find and confiscate anything that could be used as a weapon. We can't search all passengers for explosives because Muslims stick explosives up their anuses. (Talk about jobs Americans just won't do.)

"You have to search for the terrorists.

"Fortunately, that's the one advantage we have in this war. In a lucky stroke, all the terrorists are swarthy, foreign-born, Muslim males. (Think: "Guys Madonna would date.")

"This would give us a major leg up -- if only the country weren't insane."

Boston Globe 2006: what israeli security could teach us "One agent will ask questions for a while, then a second will ask many of the same. The two will compare notes, and one or the other will ask a third batch of queries. This process often takes 20 minutes; it can take two hours.
"The idea is to turn up inconsistencies in a terrorist's made-up story (or at least rattle him into a panic) and also expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices. In 1986, El Al security at London's Heathrow airport discovered a bomb sewn into the suitcase of an unwitting Irish woman after she revealed that she had had a romance with a Jordanian, who had bought her the bag."

Israeli Airport Security Measures  ""They probe, as one profiling supervisor told CBS, for “anything out of the ordinary, anything that does not fit.” Their questions can seem odd or intrusive. . . . Only when the profiler is satisfied that a passenger poses no risk is he or she allowed to proceed to the check-in counter. By that point, there is no need to make him remove his shoes, or to confiscate his bottle of water."

TSA 'groping' procedure a result of administration blindness to terror threat  "At long last, a newspaper editorial hits the nail on the head regarding the TSA's new groping polices: Stop humiliating innocent airline passengers and do what Israel's security-conscious El Al does -- profiling.
"The Washington Times makes this point in an editorial aptly titled "Obama's Hand in Your Crotch " "

The TSA Debacle "But what's even worse is the fact that Tyner looks like he walked out of a Rockwell painting titled "Johnny Goes to the Airport". My first reaction on seeing his picture was, "My God -- they busted Jimmy Stewart." This little fracas is over. All that Tyner has to do is step in front of the cameras, say "aw shucks" once or twice, and that's it."  Photo from Drudge

Freudian slips may haunt Obama

Politico  "In Obama’s case, the accumulation of comments that seem contrary to the image he conveys not only will create perceptions the president will find difficult to dislodge but could prompt questions about his sincerity.

"This could ensure that Obama’s stroll to the center will seem, at best, a bridge too far and, at worst, disingenuous opportunism. "

President Obama Presents the Medal of Honor to Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta: "We’re All in Your Debt"

The Freedomist  "So I would ask Sal’s team, all of Battle Company who were with him that day, to please stand and be recognized as well. (Applause.) Gentlemen, thank you for your service. We’re all in your debt. And I’m proud to be your Commander-in-Chief."

Medal of Honor has been "feminized"? Really? "This is big boy territory. This is “for keeps” land. We don’t give MOHs to anyone but the bravest of the brave. And idiots who think the medal is being “feminized” need to do a bit of research before they go off half cocked and make freakin’ fools of themselves."

Liberal think  "After watching the 60 Minutes profile of Sal Giunta, Medal of Honor recipient, a liberal I know had this to say: “It was boring. It sounds as if all he did was drag back a dead body.” I’ll be the first to admit that the 60 Minutes profile managed to be surprisingly dull, but it strikes me that there is a very different mindset between those who appreciate military valor and those who don’t, and this mindset transcends even poor reporting."