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Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 04, 2009 8 Comments

Here is a one sentence summary of Barack Obama's "historic" speech to the Muslim world:"I have no right to tell you how to live, because we're as bad as you are, but here's how you need to live."--------------------------------------------Follow me on Twitter and Facebook...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2009 3 Comments

Depends on what the meaning of "bow" is. Because leaning down to have a medal put over your head is not a bow. How could anyone think otherwise? From LGF:Please note! Barack Obama is absolutely not bowing to King Abdullah! He’s receiving a medal.That is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2009 5 Comments

Al-Jazeera, which has served as a continuous conduit for al-Qaeda videos, has released a hit-piece on American troops in Afghanistan.The highly edited, and ominously narrated, few minutes of tape purport to reveal a plot a year ago by a group of Christian evangelical American soldiers...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 29, 2009 25 Comments

It would be very easy to fall into a depression over Arlen Specter switching political parties, giving Democrats a likely filibuster-proof Senate majority. The result will be that Obama will be able to push through much of his agenda without meaningful debate.Not that I will...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 24, 2009 3 Comments

Bill Roggio, who runs a great website, The Long War Journal, has been reporting for months on the steady increase in the power of the Pakistani Taliban, who are approaching the capital of Islamabad. What is most frightening is that the Taliban also are approaching...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 13 Comments

The debate over interrogation of the three top-level al-Qaeda leaders who were subjected to waterboarding is entering the honest phase. The first phase was the "this is the worst thing that has happened in the history of the earth" handwringing on the left. The second...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2009 3 Comments

CQ Politics reports, based on an anonymous source, that California Democratic Representative Jane Harman "was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department to reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2009 5 Comments

If ever there were poster children for the term "useful idiots," the Somali pirates would be it. They just don't know it yet.For years, Somali pirates have run amok off the east coast of Africa, taking advantage of private shipping companies, and taking various non-U.S....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2009 1 Comment

I'm thrilled that the Somali pirates were killed, and the Maersk ship captain is safe. The Obama administration is claiming credit for giving the go-ahead for military action. But this presents Obama with a problem.There are two choices when negotiating with hostage takers/pirates....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 09, 2009 2 Comments

President Barack Obama bowed down to a foreign monarch as part of his apology tour. Whatever one thinks about our relationship with the Saudis, no President has prostrated himself before a Saudi King before in a sign of subservience. The attempts to twist George Bush's...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2009 3 Comments

The Obama "bowing" incident is taking on a life of its own. Even those who defend Obama without question are acknowledging "the fact that Obama briefly bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia." No more denial that the event took place, only over its meaning.What...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 06, 2009 8 Comments

President Barack Obama bowed down on bended knee when meeting the King of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 Summit recently. The incident is on video and was widely reported except in the U.S. mainstream media. The White House spin machine has been eerily silent on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2009 0 Comments

David Brooks is back on the Obama ranch, having been lassoed by White House officials when he briefly strayed. Brook's latest puff piece is The Winnable War. You don't need to read it. I'll give you the punch line, which is a shocka:BUSH BAD, OBAMA...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 24, 2009 0 Comments

Tristan Anderson was seriously injured earlier this month while participating in violent protests against the security barrier built by Israel in response to a wave of suicide bombers from the West Bank:Every Friday for the past seven months, the villagers of Nilin, bolstered by foreign...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 18, 2009 0 Comments

I happened upon the following, which I hope you will enjoy as much as I did:Mr. Reagan tells the story of the time in 1981 when a senior admiral came to the White House to brief the President and Cabinet on maneuvers scheduled to begin...