The man behind RedState.com shakes up the Republican Party – St. Petersburg Times


MACON, Ga. — Between pecks at his laptop, Macon City Council member Erick Erickson ticked off some of his goals for the new year: • Beating Gov. Charlie Crist and electing Marco Rubio as Florida’s junior senator. • “Taking out” Republican Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah because he’s a centrist. • Ensuring the Republican establishment [...]

Frontpage’s Man of the Year: Glenn Beck – by David Forsmark


The rising star of the Right has kept Obama in check and spearheaded the conservative revival.

NewsReal Sunday: Obama Greater Than Jesus? (Part 1)


Top Danish newspaper makes case for Obama being greater than Jesus.

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A Daughter Brought to Life – by Jay Nordlinger


David Horowitz’s unusual new memoir.

Feds assess terror watchlists after airline attack – AP


Federal authorities met Monday to reassess the nation’s system of terror watchlists to determine how to avoid the type of lapse that allowed a man with explosives to board a flight to the U.S. even though he was flagged as a possible terrorist. A senior U.S. intelligence official said authorities were reviewing the procedures that [...]

Andrew Sullivan Unhinged – by Peter Collier


The blogger as slavish Obama apologist.

Andrew Sullivan Unhinged


Andrew Sullivan seems increasingly unhinged these days. The creepy, Torquemada-like obsession with Sarah Palin continues as he rummages through her book in a deranged act of explication de texte, functions as a one man birther movement laying out loony speculations about the owners of the canals out of which Trig and Tripp emerged, and continues [...]

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Security reviews under way after airliner attack – AP


Investigators piecing together a brazen attempt to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner said Sunday the suspect tucked a small bag holding his deadly concoction on his body, using an explosive that would have been easily detected with the right airport equipment. His success in smuggling and partially igniting the material on Friday’s flight to Detroit [...]

Rep. Peter King: Flight 253 shows need for tougher aviation security – NYPOST.com


One thing is clear about the attempted terror attack on Christmas Day — we need answers.There is obviously going to be a full-scale congressional investigation into how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was allowed to board Flight 253 and head to the United States with plans to incinerate 300 innocent people.Mere hours after it happened, I was [...]

Failed Xmas attack raises new security concerns – AP


U.S. counterterrorism officials are scrambling to assess a potential new threat from an explosive mixture that evaded detection aboard a Detroit-bound airliner but failed to bring down the plane. Multiple law enforcement officials said the suspected attacker — identified as a Nigerian man named Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab — claimed to have acted on instructions [...]