When Security Trumps Common Sense – by Dennis Prager

I am not prepared to obey rules that hurt the innocent while doing nothing to prevent terrorism.

Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport – by Daniel Pipes

Is America willing to embrace the strategies necessary to stop terrorism?

A Failed Anti-Terror Strategy – by Jamie Glazov

Nothing Obama is doing will make a recurrence of the terror attempt on Flight 253 any less likely.

Bring Back Profiling And Leave The Rest Of Us Alone

In a flip-flop worthy of John Kerry (I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it), Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told airline passengers that the security system was working just fine  before conceding that there was a major break down in the system on Christmas Day.  But for a bungling terrorist [...]

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3. Obama Takes Responsibility. Great, Now Who’ll be Fired?

Spencer: Flight 253: The Failure of Counterterrorism

In the lead story in Human Events today, I discuss the abject failure of our national approach to counterterror: The chief lesson of the attempted jihad attack on Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day is that our entire anti-terror strategy is a huge and abject failure….

Preventing the Next Terrorist Attack – by Andrew Cline

Why the new airport security measures won’t stop future bombing attempts.

David Frum: Why Health Care Bill is Too Big a Risk – Frum Forum

I wanted to support President Obama’s health care reforms if I possibly could. The U.S. health care system costs too much, delivers too little and excludes too many. Americans pay 60 percent more per person for health care than any other nation. Yet Americans rank only 41st in life expectancy and live with the paralyzing [...]

China tells U.S.: No deal on climate change – POLITICO.com

COPENHAGEN — China’s climate negotiators have told Western counterparts they can’t agree to an “operational agreement” on climate change that President Barack Obama had hoped to bring home from Copenhagen –- and will push for a short, noncommittal collective statement at the end of the talks, according to American staffers briefed on the situation.It’s not [...]

The Persistence of Islamic Anti-Semitism – by Robert Spencer

Setting the historical record straight.

30,000 More Troops—With One Hand Tied Behind their Backs?

The consensus, Left and Right, seems to be that President Obama’s speech was less than stirring.  On Fox News’s excellent news hour, Special Report with Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer paraphrased Winston Churchill’s famed battle cry to sum it up this way
“We will fight them in air, we’ll fight them on the beaches, we’ll fight them [...]