Muslims assault news photographer outside Detroit mosque where imam called for “offensive jihad”

Victor Davis Hanson: Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy – WSJ.com

OPINIONO CTOBER 28, 2009, 7:14 P.M. ET
Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy
Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Upon entering office, Barack Obama knew little about foreign policy. But then neither did Vice President Harry S. Truman when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died suddenly [...]

Obama Takes Possession of the War in Afghanistan

The only thing the Left can get right about warmaking is the primacy of deception as a tool to be used against your enemy.
Exchanges between Washington journalists on this week’s Washington Week in Review highlighted, to a controlled extent, just how poorly the Obama administration is advancing national defense issues.
One of the most startling admissions [...]

Detroit imam and Misunderstander of Islam called followers to “offensive jihad”

Saying of agents: “Deal with them, deal with them the way, the way they supposed to be dealt with. … It’s not that complicated, man.” Unlike, apparently, the doctrine of Islamic jihad which, according to all the mainstream authorities, he has gotten wrong, wrong, wrong, despite being an imam and…

Iraq arrests over 60 security force members — including 11 senior officers — over Baghdad bombings

The arrests “[seem] to confirm what many people have suspected – that the security forces are susceptible to infiltration by insurgents or are just not up to the job.” “Police arrested over Iraq bombing,” from BBC News, October 29: Iraq has arrested more than 60 security force members, including 11…

Spencer: UN Aids Jihadis

In Human Events this morning I discuss yet another strange new initiative in that land of strange new initiatives, the UN: That they have broken up several major jihad plots in recent weeks is a tribute to American intelligence gathering and law enforcement. To them must go the credit for…

From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 29, 2009

I was the scion of socialists and Communists, of Jews estranged from Judaism who pursued ideals beyond the limits of its community and traditions, of revolutionaries who pursued fulfillment in a liberated future beyond the confines of the societies and nations that defined the human present. When I was nine, I remember marching with my [...]

American Thinker: The Battlefield Paradox: Scozzafava or Hoffman?

October 29, 2009
The Battlefield Paradox: Scozzafava or Hoffman?
By Eric Richter
A soldier trapped in a foxhole during a fierce battle faces a profound paradox. 
His survival instinct screams at him to hide in the bottom of his hole, not to rise up and shoot or attack. Yet if he obeys this survival instinct instead of his orders [...]

American Thinker: Next Tuesday’s Lessons for 2010

So as sexy as a third-party win would be in NY 23, the candidate and his chief supporters refuse to call NY 23 a third-party movement. To them, this is what Reagan called a “revitalized second party” and an invitation for liberal Republicans to “go their own way.” The use of Reagan’s name by both [...]

Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands – AP Wire

Oct 29, 12:05 AM EDT
AP IMPACT: Stimulus jobs overstated by thousands
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Colorado company said it created 4,231 jobs with the help of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan. The real number: fewer than 1,000.
A child care center in Florida said it saved 129 jobs with the [...]